Kingston DC1000M SSD Review: Big, Fast NVMe Storage

Next we used SiSoft SANDRA, the the System ANalyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant for some quick tests. Here, we used the Physical Disk test suite and provide the results from our comparison SSDs. The benchmarks were run on clean drives that lacked any partitions. Read and write performance metrics are detailed below.

The Kingston DC1000M offered the best write performance of the bunch, according to the SANDRA benchmark, with competitive read performance as well. Overall, the Kingston DC1000M's drive score puts it a notch ahead of both the Samsung and Intel drives.

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Next up we ran the Compression Benchmark built-into AS SSD, an SSD specific benchmark being developed by Alex Intelligent Software. This test is interesting because it uses a mix of compressible and non-compressible data and outputs both Read and Write throughput of the drive. We only graphed a small fraction of the data (1% compressible, 50% compressible, and 100% compressible), but the trend is representative of the benchmark’s complete results.

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The Kingston DC1000M completely fell down in the HD Tune benchmark. HD Tune's read test resulted in consistently low, somewhat erratic performance, though the overall results are repeatable. It fared much better in the write test, but still trailed overall.


Above at the actual screenshots from one of our HD Tune runs on the Kingston DC1000M. Typically we see a much smoother transfer rate, with more consistent access times across a drive.