Kingston KC3000 SKC3000S/1024G 1.02 TB

New bestseller

As you have heard from us more than once, the American brand Kingston, which is one of the largest players in the memory market, somehow slept through the boom in solid state drives. However, the well-equipped, fast, and relatively inexpensive M.2 SSDs from the Consumer and KS lines helped them get back into the big game. And it is the KC series models that are one of the most popular options for building a gaming PC in 2023. For a gaming PC of an average or near-top level, we would choose a compact M.2 SSD from the Kingston KC3000 series with a capacity of at least 1 TB.

PCI-E 4.0 bus

The key feature of Kingston KC3000 is the integration of the fourth generation PCI-E system interface. It has an impressive storage capacity of 1002 GB, its maximum rated write speed is 6000 MB/s, and the read speed can reach 7000 MB/s. The maximum speed of random reading and writing of 4K blocks reaches an impressive figure of 1 million operations per second. The guaranteed write resource is an impressive 800 TB. The icing on the cake is Micron's 176-layer flash memory, although 96-layer memory is the norm even for more expensive devices. As you can see, the passport characteristics of the KC3000 are impressive, it remains to check the drive in action.

Phison E18 Master Controller

As a control controller, Kingston engineers used the well-recommended Phison E18 chip, and to increase stability, the memory modules were covered with a low-profile black heatsink. In tests for linear reading and writing large files, the drive showed excellent results with a minimum of drawdowns and low controller heating. In PCMark 8, which simulates the work of real applications, the newcomer demonstrates a very significant performance - throughput has reached almost 965 MB / s. But when working with large arrays of small files for a long time, IOPS indicators go down, and the controller heats up to 80 ° C. This makes it not the best choice for working with 3D graphics and 4K video content, which requires constant copying and burning of heavy source files.