Kingston KC3000 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD - High-performance storage for desktop and laptop PCs -SKC3000S/1024G

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Random 4K performance is quoted as up to 1,000,000 IOPS for both reads and writes for the 2TB and 4TB drives, the 1TB drive gets the same 1,000,000 IOPS write rating but with a 900,000 IOPS read rating. The entry-level 512GB drive is rated at up to 450,000 IOPS and up to 900,000 IOPS for random reads and writes respectively.

Kingston rate the KC3000 at up to 7,000MB/s for both read and writes. Using the ATTO benchmark we couldn't quite hit these maximums with test results of 6,820MB/s and 6,444MB/s for reads and writes respectively. The 990 Pro takes the lead with read latency and the P44 Pro with write latency and we might give the nod to the latter overall, but it’s fairly close. The Fury Renegade simply trails some of the newer drives, but real world performance between them is going to be extremely close. Sustained Write Performance and Cache RecoveryVDI FC Initial Login saw all the drives with unstable results. That said, the KC3000 topped out at roughly 70K IOPS at 426.4 µs in latency before taking a severe spike in performance to end the test. Enter the Kingston KC3000, a wallet-friendly model available in 512GB, 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB configurations with no compromises to the performance. Although it didn't quite match its rated sequential read and write speeds in our tests, the Kingston KC3000 proved to be a speedy PCI Express 4 NVMe internal drive. It generally did well in our benchmarks—particularly in PCMark 10, which measures a drive's speed in everyday tasks such as loading different programs—though poorly in the AS-SSD benchmarks that involve transferring folders of small files. The "terabytes written" spec is a manufacturer's estimate of how much data can be written to a drive before some cells begin to fail and get taken out of service. (TBW tends to scale 1:1 with capacity, and that's true with the KC3000.) Kingston's warranty for the KC3000 is good for five years or until you hit the rated TBW figure in data writes, whichever comes first. Where the Kingston KC3000 compromises is with the write endurance which is middling at best. 512GB capacity is good for 400 TB, with 1TB rated at 800TB, 2TB clear for 1,600 TB and 4TB confirmed for 3,200 TB. It’s not bad by any means, but it doesn’t quite go blow for blow with the capacity or above as some flagship models do. Performance

A negyedik generációs KC3000 7000/7000 MB/s (olvasás/írás) maximális sebességgel nyújt villámgyors teljesítményt, 4096 GB-os teljes kapacitása* pedig optimális adattárolást tesz lehetővé. A rendszer tárolókapacitását bővítő felhasználók így lépést tarthatnak a nagy teljesítményigényű feladatokkal, és jobb teljesítményt érhetnek el az olyan szoftveralkalmazásoknál, mint a 3D rendering vagy a 4K+ tartalomkészítés. A KC3000 nagy teljesítménysűrűségű 3D TLC NAND memóriatechnológiával dolgozik, szabványos M.2 2280 kialakítású házban. Így még több adat tárolására képes, és biztosítja a felhasználók számára a PCIe 4.0 sebesség előnyeit. A KC3000 meghajtót alacsony profilú grafén-alumínium hűtőborda erősíti, amely hatékonyan elvezeti a hőt és nagy terhelés alatt is alacsonyan tartja az SSD hőmérsékletét. At QD1 the Kingston KC3000 produced a single thread random read result of 20,507 IOPS (83.998MB/s), using two threads saw the performance rise to 41,694 IOP (170.78MB/s). Using three threads produced 61,227 IOPS (250.78MB/s) and with four threads the performance rose to 79,974 IOPS (327.57MB/s). The drive’s performance increases smoothly as the queue depth deepens for each thread count. As with the read throughput peak figure, the peak write figure is also the fastest we have seen for a consumer PCIe 4.0 drive to date. The 2TB Fury Renenage maintains the large, dynamic cache of the KC3000. The cache spans the entire breadth of the drive, meaning that all of the native TLC may run in pSLC mode. The precise size will change as the drive is filled. In this performance mode the drive writes up to 6.8 GBps before tumbling down to around 1.7 GBps when folding after the cache is exhausted.It also scored well in the three iso read/write (cp1, cp2 and cp3) test traces with 4,033MB/s, 3,876MB/s and 3,764MB/s respectively. AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, 16GB DDR4-2400, Sapphire R9 390 Nitro and an MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge Wifi motherboard Official write specifications are only part of the performance picture. Most SSDs implement a write cache, which is a fast area of (usually) pseudo-SLC programmed flash that absorbs incoming data. AS SSD is a great free tool designed just for benching Solid State Drives. It performs an array of sequential read and write tests, as well as random read and write tests with sequential access times over a portion of the drive. AS SSD includes a sub suite of benchmarks with various file pattern algorithms but this is difficult in trying to judge accurate performance figures. Kingston’s SSD management utility, SSD Manager, may not be as feature-rich as some of its competitors but without all the bells and whistles and funky GUI’s, it will automatically detect any firmware updates as well as displaying drive status, temperatures and SMART information.

The Kingston KC3000 wants to be in the conversation with Gen4 SSD leaders like the Samsung 980 Pro, WD SN850, and FireCuda 530. The KC3000 certainly showed that it can compete at that level, as it outpaced the popular Samsung drive in virtually all of our tests, especially its bar-setting setting transfer speeds in sequential reads. All of this combined makes the KC3000 an impressive release from Kingston, and a drive we highly recommend for enthusiasts and content creators. https://www.tomshardware.com/features/upgrading-your-laptop-with-pcie-40-storage-which-ssd-is-the-best IOMeter is a well-respected industry standard benchmark. However, despite our results with IOMeter scaling as expected, it is debatable as to whether or not certain access patterns actually provide a valid example of real-world performance. The access patterns we tested may not reflect your particular workloads, for example. That said, we do think IOMeter is a reliable gauge for relative throughput, latency, and bandwidth with a given storage solution. In addition, there are certain highly-strenuous workloads you can place on a drive with IOMeter, that you can't with most other storage benchmark tools.

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The PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark uses a wide-ranging set of real-world traces from popular applications and common tasks to fully test the performance of the fastest modern drives. The benchmark is designed to measure the performance of fast system drives using the SATA bus at the low end and devices connected via PCI Express at the high end. In 4K write, the Kingston drive went on to peak at just over 445,331 IOPS with latency at about 281.7µs. This placed it third, but still well behind the Seagate and Corsair drives, which boasted over 100K IOPS more. There’s no shortage of affordable Gen 4.0 NVMe SSDs available in 2023 as more options than ever are rapidly declining in price. With a read score of 2961, the Kingston KC3000 sits firmly on the top of our AS SSD results chart. However, its write score of 2914 isn't quite as impressive.

We used CrystalDiskMark 8‘s custom settings to test the 4K random read performance of the drive through a range of queue depths. The setup for the tests is listed below. Kingston’s SSD management utility is called SSD Manager, (version v1.1.2.6. at the time of testing the drive) It automatically detects any firmware updates as well as displaying drive status, temperatures and SMART information We use the Quarch HD Programmable Power Module to gain a deeper understanding of power characteristics. Idle power consumption is an important aspect to consider, especially if you're looking for a laptop upgrade as even the best ultrabooks can have mediocre storage.

While the flash interface speed played a big part in its victories, they were also achieved due in part to a larger dynamic SLC cache than compared to the Seagate and Corsair. Although the trade-off is a slower empty-to-fill time, the KC3000 is still tuned well for most gamers, prosumers, and storage enthusiasts. All our results were achieved by running each test five times with every configuration this ensures that any glitches are removed from the results. Trim is confirmed as running by typing fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify into the command line. A response of disabledeletenotify =0 confirms TRIM is active.