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Performance
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Pros : Adapter included
Easy to Install
High Speed
Small form factor
Build quality
Good Performance
Cons : 4K performance is a bit disappointing.
Bottomline : Kingston’s KC1000 NVMe SSD is the fastest Kingston SSD drive we have tested and moreover, the price of the NVMe SSD drives are much lower than any other PCIe SSDs present in the market right now and the best part is that all KC1000 SSD drives come with an adapter.
Kingston Digital has introduced a new ultra-fast solid state drive interface Kingston KC1000 NVMe PCIe. The PCIe drives are almost 2x faster than SATA-based SSDs and over 40x faster than a 7200RPM hard-disk drive. We got 480GB Kingston KC1000 NVMe PCIe for review and let's see the speed and installation of this storage product.
If you are working with high-definition video, applications, virtual augmented reality, streaming and real-time analytics, resource-intensive video games, software for CAD and other software products impose high requirements on the system than the PCIe slot SSD drives will definitely increase the performance.
In particular, made in M2 form factor, Kingston KC1000 NVMe PCIe drive is equipped with KS1000 interface PCIe Gen3 x4 and supports the latest protocol NVMe, allowing exchange of data at speeds up to 290 000 IO per second (IOPS), i.e. more than 2 times faster compared to SATA SSD, and more than 40 times faster than a traditional hard drive 7200 rpm/min. Thus, this new drive makes it possible to significantly speed up the loading of the system and the start of the program, to increase productivity in operations with sequential read and write.
Besides high Performance, Kingston KC1000 NVMe PCIe SSD has higher than traditional SSD, energy efficiency, and increased reliability, backed by a 5-year limited warranty. The Kingston SSD K1000 will be available in the market in versions of 240, 480 and 960 GB.
Detailed Specifications of Kingston KC1000 NVMe PCIe SSD:
Form factor: M.2 2280
Interface: NVMe PCIe Gen 3.0 x 4 Lanes
Capacities: 240GB, 480GB, 960GB
Controller: Phison PS5007-E7
NAND: MLC
Sequential Read/Write:
240GB — up to 2700/900MB/s
480GB, 960GB — up to 2700/1600MB/s
Maximum 4k Read/Write:
240GB — up to 225,000/190,000 IOPS
480GB, 960GB — up to 290,000/190,000 IOPS
Random 4k Read/Write:
240GB, 480GB — up to 190,000/160,000
IOPS
960GB — up to 190,000/165,000 IOPS
PCMARK Vantage HDD Suite Score: 150,000
Total Bytes Written (TBW):
- 240GB — 300TB and .70 DWPD5
- 480GB — 550TB and .64 DWPD5
- 960GB — 1PB and .58 DWPD5
Power Consumption:
.11W Idle / .99W Avg / 4.95W (MAX) Read / 7.40W (MAX) Write
Storage temperatures: -40°C ~ 85°C
Operating temperatures: 0°C ~ 70°C
Dimensions:
- 80mm x 22mm x 3.5mm (M.2)
- 180.98mm x 120.96mm x 21.59mm (with HHHL AIC – standard bracket)
- 181.29mm x 80.14mm x 23.40mm (with HHHL AIC – low-profile bracket)
Weight:
- 10g (M.2)
- 76g (with HHHL AIC – standard bracket)
- 69g (with HHHL AIC – low-profile bracket)
Vibration operating: 2.17G Peak (7-800Hz)
Vibration non-operating: 20G Peak (20-1000Hz)
MTBF: 2,000,000
Warranty/support:
Limited 5-year warranty with free technical support
Kingston KC1000 NVMe PCIe SSD Installation
The Kingston KC1000 NVMe PCIe SSD comes with the adapter. So, if you don't have M.2 slots in your motherboard then you can use the standard PCIe slots to install this SSD drive. In the following video, you can see how to install the native M.2 SSD into the adapter.
After installing the drive with an adapter you can easily plug the PCIe SSD adapter into the PCIe slot. The drive is plug and play, so you don't need to install additional drivers.
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Performance
The company claims the Sequential Read/Write speed of the SSD is 2700/1600MB/s. And the result we got while testing the drive in our benchmarks is almost same. We tested the drive using our test bed (Intel Core i7 CPU, 4 GB Kingston DDR3 RAM, Windows 10 OS and Cooler Master 350 Plus). In our random test in which we transferred the assorted 3Gb data from our HDD drive to this 480GB SSD drive and the speed we got was 193MB/s and the time it took 16 seconds.
Running the benchmarks, it performed well on Crystal Disk Mark (sequential) it gave 2840 MB/s read and 1222 MB/s write speed, and with HD Tune Pro, it delivered maximum and minimum read speeds of 566.7 MB/s and 297.4 MB/s respectively which almost double if you compare it with normal SATA SSD drives. In the past, we have reviewed the Kingston HyperX Fury 240GB SSD and if you compare the score and performance of both drives you see a significate amount of difference.
Crystal Disk Mark
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HD Tune Pro
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Like all other PCIe NVMe drives, KC1000 SSD might get a bit hot especially while gaming so it's best to use a Fan on it or close to it. The price of KC1000 240GB and 480GB are 16000 and 26000 respectively along the adapter.