Kingston KC2000 M.2 SSD Review

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Kingston are well known for making storage, especially amazing value SSDs like their 2.5” A400 drive I’ve used before, but their newest NVME offering doesn’t quite pack the punch I was hoping for. It costs £144 for the 1TB model I have, comes in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB and 2TB sizes, and is a Gen 3 speed drive with no heatsink. 

The controller they use is a Silicon Motion 2262, which is an 8 channel gen 3 controller that can run up to 3.5GB/s reads and 3GB/s writes. It’s certainly not a bad pick, coupled with Kingston’s own NAND flash chips, 96-layer TLC with 4 chips per side at 128GB per chip, and a bit of what I believe is DDR3 ram on there too, it’s a reasonably fast drive.

The usual synthetic benchmarks show the drive sitting somewhere around the 3GB/s read mark and between 2.5 and 2.8GB/s in writes, which is actually a good bit higher than what Kingston claim. In my more real world test, duplicating a large file set to stress both reads and writes simultaneously, it held up well to begin with, reaching over 1GB/s, but I think once the RAM filled up it dropped to more like 600MB/s, which while that still isn’t bad, it’s certainly not the best I’ve seen.

Happily though, temps wise I had no issues here. It peaked at something like 55°c, nowhere near the 75°c thermal throttling point, and that was without any heatsinks or direct airflow, so I imagine in a normal system hidden under a hot graphics card not getting much air flow, it should still be pretty fine. 

So the SSD performs pretty well, holds up under temperature, so what did I mean by it not quick packing the punch I was looking for? Well, for £20 less that the price of this drive, I can buy an ADATA SX8200 Pro 1TB which is an all out faster drive. It’s faster in synthetic tests by a good margin, and held up better under my stress test too, meaning that you are getting more SSD for less money. If Kingston dropped the price of this to be more in line with say WD’s SN500 Blue drive, a much slower drive by comparison, I’d have no problems recommending it as an amazing value and performance drive. 

But for the time being, it gets a moderate recommendation, or a glowing one if you can get it on offer. Would I put on in my rig? Probably yes, if it was a bit cheaper. I currently run an older WD SN700 black 1TB drive which is basically the same speed as this, so as a drive I’m more than happy with it, it’s just that pricing that is holding it back a little there.

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