Kingston DC500 SSD Review: High Capacity Enterprise Storage

Name: Kingston DC500
Brand: Kingston

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

Performance Summary: The Kingston DC500R and DC500M drives we tested offered competitive performance with other enterprise-class, SATA-based SSDs virtually across the board. The limitations of the legacy SATA interface result in tight groupings in most benchmarks, but overall the Kingston DC500R and DC500M typically offered slightly better write characteristics versus the competing Samsung drives, with competitive reads, but somewhat higher latency, especially under load.

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Enterprise-class solid state drives used to cost many multiples of their consumer-class counterparts, but times have changed. The read-centric 3.84TB DC500R is currently available for about $620, and the mixed-use 3.84TB DC500M for about $820. At those prices, the cost per gig of these drives works out to about $0.16 – $0.21. Those numbers might seem a little high versus some consumer-class SSDs, but they are competitive in the enterprise space for drives like these that offer end-to-end data and power-protection and long warranties. For ultimate performance, you should probably look to NVMe-based solutions, but these Kingston DC500 series drives should address the needs of users looking for high-capacity SATA-based drives quite well, without breaking the bank.


High Capacities 5 Year Warranties Competitive Pricing	Limited By The SATA Interface Higher Latency Under Load

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