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Full Performance Review Kingston KC2500 SSD 1TB, Fastest in the Class

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Story Highlights
  • Kingston’s KC2500 NVMe PCIe SSD delivers powerful performance using the latest Gen 3.0 x 4 controller and 96-layer 3D TLC NAND.
  • Available in capacities from 250GB–2TB2 to meet your system’s needs.

Review Kingston KC2500 SSD. Kingston again launched its latest product for the storage category in the market. Using M.2 NVMe connectivity, the Kingston KC2500 comes with several capacity options. The test unit that came to CnwinTech Lab had 1TB of storage space.

When it was first announced, Kingston said the performance it offered was above the current average. And the capacity options also provide different speeds. What kind of performance does this product have? What are the advantages and disadvantages? Here’s a full performance review Kingston KC2500 1TB.

The Kingston KC2500 1TB is actually internal storage. This means you can install it on a PC or laptop, as long as it provides an M.2 slot. more specifically, it supports the M.2 2280 slot targeting the PC market for homes, workstations, and HPC (High-Performance Computing).

Design

The Kingston KC2500 has a design that is no different from NVMe storage in general, with a blue PCB and covered with a sticker containing product information.

PeripheralsSpecifications
ProcessorIntel Core i9-9900K, AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
MotherboardASUS TUF Z390 Plus Gaming, ASUS ROG Strix X570-E Gaming
RAMHyperX Fury DDR4 3200MHz16GB (2x8GB)
VGAASUS ROG Strix RTX 2060 Gaming 6G OC, Sapphire Pulse RX 5700 XT 8G
CoolingNoctua NH-L12S, Noctua NH-L9x65
StorageWestern Digital Black SN750 1TB, Lexar NM500 512GB
PSUCorsair RM 850X
MonitorASUS ROG Swift PG258Q
MouseCorsair Dark Core SE, Corsair Scimitar Pro
MousepadCorsair MM1000 Qi, Corsair MM800 Polaris
KeyboardCorsair K63 Wireless, Corsair K70 RGB MK.2 SE
HeadsetCorsair HS60, Corsair HS70
Table of CnwinTech Testbed

Some of the features offered are automatic encryption mode which is also compatible with some commonly used software for corporate security. Applications such as WinMagic and Microsoft eDrive. It is also claimed to have a very long service life, with a total data writing of up to 600TB.

Features

Available in capacities from 250GB–2TB2 to meet your system’s needs. KC2500 is a self-encrypting drive that supports end-to-end data protection using XTS-AES 256 bit Hardware-based encryption and allows the usage of independent software vendors with TCG Opal 2.0 security management solutions such as Symantec™, McAfee™, WinMagic®, and others. KC2500 also has built-in Microsoft eDrive support, a security storage specification for use with BitLocker.

Performance

Now is the time to talk about performance. We tested the Kingston KC2500 1TB with the Crystal Disk Mark application. This is a reference for measuring the speed in actual use with the claim from the manufacturer. Kingston claims the 1TB version of the Kingston KC2500 provides read speeds of 3,500MB per second and write speeds of up to 2,900MB per second.

Claim results are usually not much different from actual tests, and this also applies to the Kingston KC2500 1TB. In the Crystal Disk Mark screenshot below you can see the Kingston KC2500 1TB is capable of writing data at speeds of up to 2,935MB per second and reading up to 3,495MB per second.

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Review Kingston KC2500

This means that the claims submitted are appropriate, and this speed is more than sufficient to support daily activities, such as playing games or moving large amounts of data.

Conclusion

For the market in my country, the Kingston KC2500 1TB price is USD241. Admittedly, the price is less competitive with several competing brands with products in the same class. When we monitored it in several e-commerce sites, its competitor products were priced at USD136 to USD170.

On the other hand, it offers quite capable performance. For those of you who have long known and use the storage products from Kingston, it wouldn’t hurt to install this Kingston KC2500 on your PC or laptop.

Check our store if you are interested to buy this Kingston KC2500 1TB with great deals and other parts accessories there. You can also click the Shop Now button below to buy it on external vendors.

Score Assessment

Performance - 9.7
Facilities & Features - 9
Easiness - 8.5
Price - 6

8.3

Overall

Pros: High performance; Encryption support.
Minus: Prices are less competitive.Shop Now

User Rating: 4.35 ( 1 votes)

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