Kingston DC500 SSD Review: High Capacity Enterprise Storage

Name: Kingston DC500
Brand: Kingston

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, July 16, 2019, 01:55 PM EDT

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.

SiSoft SANDRA

Synthetic Disk Benchmarking

This benchmark clearly shows the benefits of PCIe NVMe-based storage over SATA. If we focus solely on the enterprise SATA drives though, we once again see a tight grouping with all of the drives bumping into the limitation of the legacy SATA interface.

ATTO Disk Benchmark

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ATTO is straightforward disk benchmark that measures transfer speeds across a specific volume length. It measures raw transfer rates for both reads and writes and graphs them out in an easily interpreted chart. We chose .5KB through 64MB transfer sizes and a queue depth of 6 over a total max volume length of 256MB. ATTO's workloads are sequential in nature and measure raw bandwidth, rather than I/O response time, access latency, etc.

Once again, all of the SATA-based drives were tightly grouped, regardless of the transfer size being used. The Kingston drives had slightly better performance at the smallest transfer sizes, but things leveled off quickly.

Peak write IOs with the smaller transfer sizes were also somewhat better on the Kingston drives versus Samsung's competitive offerings. The tables turned in the read test, however.

Tags: SSD, Kingston, Storage, data center, SATA, Enterprise, dc500

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com