Kingston KC2000 1TB, full review and analysis in Spanish

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Features and technical specifications

The model we have to analyze today is the dose of 1 TB, which together with 2 TB is the most effective theory Read 3,200 MB / s and write 2,200 MB / s, data that comes within the 3D TLC memory quality with the layer used.

It highlights its durability of 600 TBW, which means we would have had to write SSD 330 GB per day for 5 years to use it, but that is an extreme calculation, and the standard "major" use (games, etc.) will probably last 20 years or so. more without any problems.

There is a worrying fact, and that is that the SSD is designed to operate at a high temperature of 70ºC, which means it will certainly work. Exclamation very fast and no heat sinks installed. We will see in our tests whether or not this SSD suffers from this unpleasant thing. In a sense when applying the law NVMe 1.3Its maximum temperature should be 75ºC (for warning) and 80ºC (for critical), so Kingston may have wanted to leave some room in the entryway.

To conclude with the technical interpretation of the Kingston KC2000, we should talk about its control, a SMI 2262EN also called SM2262EN. Its interface is PCI-Express 3.0 x4 and its protocol is NVMe 1.3, with 8 NAND Flash channels and 4 CE per channel. The maximum performance of this controller is 3,500 MB / s readings and 3,000 MB / s write, so we already know what limits the performance of this SSD is not the controller but its 3D TLC chips.

Inbox and outbox updates

The Kingston KC2000 comes fitted with a lightweight cardboard box and unfortunately it needs to be ripped out for the unit to come out of it. The SSD is then inserted into a piece of black plastic and some transparent plastic that allows us to see the object without removing it from its installation.

At the back we only get information about the device and warranty, but not its technical details.

Here you are already out of the box. The Kingston KC2000 comes with a 2280 black PCB, and it does not have a heat sink as we have previously shown, the label on top.

The back is actually, completely "empty" and we can directly see the memory chips.

There is not much to see in this section, so we will continue to see it in more detail.

Internal Review

Not that you can "turn on" an M.2 SSD that doesn't have a heatsink, but we will go a lot further with the chips you suggest. If we remove the label slightly, which is not even hot (aluminum as in other heatsinks, which is not a big deal but helps lower the temperature by 2-3 ° C) we can see the controller, SM2262EN which we have described earlier.

Memory chips are not produced by Kingston (FB12808UCT1-7F), and as we show in the technical features section, they are 96-layer 3D NAND TLC, which provides greater capacity and performance than normal. These memories of NAND chips are two-dimensional 256 MB DDR3 DRAM each, located in the lower part, next to the connector.

As we've seen the app, it's time to install it on our test equipment.

Performance appraisal

To test the performance of this NVMe SSD we used the following Hardware, as well as the Windows 10 1903 operating system and all updates:

The first thing we did was just connect the SSD to the computer through one of the M.2 boards on the board to create a partition and edit it with NTFS, leaving all the default properties. Once this is done, it measures its average transmission speed using Windows, copying a large file (32 GB) from this Kingston KC2000 PCIe NVMe SSD.

The transfer speed between both SSDs remains stable from start to finish at about 1.9 GB / s, which is good and shows the high performance that the device is capable of providing.

CrystalDisk details

We will now move on to synthetic tests for different benches, but first let's take a look at all the information that CrystalDisk Info throws at us about this unit.

Here we see that the SSD uses the PCIe 3.0 x4 motherboard interface, we are very supportive and, therefore, will give us its best performance. It uses the NVMe 1.3 protocol, which is the last, and one fact to keep in mind is that, according to this software, the unit supports the S.M.A.R.T. but not TRIM, APM, NCQ or DevS sleep, but as we have shown in the technical features section, all this power is actually supported.

CrystalDisk Mark

This benchmark will show us the SSD read and write performance we analyze, both in sequential mode with large and small files and in 4K random mode, where as we know that the performance of all SSDs is greatly reduced.

Here the Kingston KC2000 shows us some reading and writing information that goes beyond the manufacturer's theoretical data. The drive has 3200/200 MB / s of read / write theory data, and while the readable data collected by the bench is the same, the write data is best at 500 MB / s.

To compare the details, we tried to do the same test several times and we plugged in another M.2 socket on the motherboard and got the same results, so it doesn't seem like a mistake, but she actually manages to deliver faster typing speed. , good news without a doubt.

Below you can see the current performance of the Kingston KC2000 1 TB compared to other NVMe SSDs that have passed through our lab:

You can see that the performance is almost always compatible with other high-end SSDs, and is actually the second fastest SSD in terms of previous write speed in our laboratory (at least according to PCIe 3.0 SSDs).

AS SSD Benchmark

This tool will show us some data in the same amount as CrystalDisk Tag, but it will also show us access times and the device will be given opposing points.

Here the data is quite different, with only 2700 MB / s of readability and now, writing 2249 MB / s, closer to the theoretical data used by the manufacturer.

Here's a comparison with the similar SSDs we compared earlier:

This time despite the price reductions compared to the previous bench, the Kingston KC2000 is solid in its performance and remains second in the standings, only behind the Transcend segment.

This tool has two additional tests, so let's see. This first tutorial will show you the times it takes for SSD to copy various file types, including ISO image, program or game.

Times are good; For comparison, the standard SATA3 SSD takes 2.2 seconds at ISO, 5 seconds per program, and 3 seconds while playing.

Finally, below you can see the functionality it gives us when it should handle inconsistent files, an area where all or almost all SSDs often have problems due to the nature of these files.

The speed provided here by the SSD is about 2700 MB / s read and 2500 Mb / s (and on top of the concept builder's definition), but we can clearly see the significant decrease in performance in the write operation. We can say that they were not caused by Thermal Throttling as the SSD did not exceed 52ºC at any point during our testing.

ATTO Disk Benchmark

Through this test, we will see how SSD behaves in reading and writing tasks that have different file sizes. As a general rule, SSDs fit well with small files, and their performance is greatly reduced by trying to manage them.

Here we can see that the performance provided by the SSD with small files is really bad, far lower than that of most SATA 3 SSDs with 512 files. Already in 64 KB files the performance reaches excellent levels, with over 3 GB / s of readability and over 2.6 GB / s, but actually that low performance with small files is very frustrating.

Conclusion and decision

There's no doubt that, according to our test, the Kingston KC2000 is an SSD that will not disappoint us in terms of rendering it a standard use, so it's more than recommended to use it as a programming tool and integrate it with operating systems, systems and games (it has more than enough power, of course).

Now, as is often the case, all that glitter is not gold and according to our tests, this SSD suffers more from an account with smaller files and less compression. It's a place where all SSDs suffer the most, but it seems that these 96 NAND 3D NAND chips provide more efficiency with their flaws, since we saw other SSDs with the same controller have no problems.

In any case, it is undoubtedly one of the best options in the market in terms of performance / benefits / price, and of course we recommend that you consider when buying a new SSD for a program or when making a list of components to install a new PC.