Performance
The performance has been tested on the Intel Comet Lake-S platform, which contains the i9-10900K CPU, ASRock Z490 PG Velocita motherboard, 64GB HyperX FURY DDR4-3200 memory kit, XFX RX 5600XT THICC III Ultra graphics card, and Abkoncore 850W 80+ Gold PSU.
All tests were performed in Windows 10 Pro x64 environment.
As usual, in my storage reviews, I will start with the ATTO Disk Benchmark. It’s one of the most popular storage benchmarks, and results are easy to compare at home.
The latest version of ATTO is often presenting results that are not always as high as specified by manufacturers. Also, in this case, we can see up to 3.27GB/s read and up to 2.7GB/s write bandwidth. At the same time, both results are about 200MB/s higher than that we could achieve on the KC2000 SSD.
CrystalDiskMark is showing us what we were waiting for so slightly above 3500MB/s read bandwidth and write around 2900MB/s.
In this benchmark, I usually focus on random transfers, and these are great, one of the best we’ve seen. It just confirms high IOPS what helps a lot when we work on multiple applications or larger databases. It can also help in games when there are a lot of small files, or we change locations more often, and the game has to load a lot of data. These operations are almost always random and not sequential.
Let’s take a look at UL PCMark series benchmarks as in these tests; we can see how the SSD performs in a mixed load environment, which simulates real-world workload.
PCMark 8 storage bandwidth is probably the highest we’ve seen in our redaction. Most M.2 PCIe SSD can go up to around 550MB/s; the KC2000 could reach around 650MB/s while here we can see 755MB/s! The KC2500 is simply amazing in this mixed load test.
In PCMark 10, the bandwidth seems lower, but it’s also a more demanding benchmark. It doesn’t change the fact that once more, the results are exceptional compared to the competition.
The last benchmark is Anvil’s Storage Utilities, which I’m adding more for reference purposes than comparison as results are often significantly lower than in other tests.
Even though not as high as we wish, then the KC2500 still shows us some excellent numbers in this benchmark and is passing 320k IOPS in write tests.
Kingston KC2500 should perform great in any environment, so I’m sure that all kinds of users will be satisfied with this drive. 1TB capacity is enough for any gaming PC and also workstations. High IOPS are especially helpful for high workloads and mixed load environments, so really demanding games or professional use.
