Kingston KC2000 NVMe SSD Review: Competitive Pricing And Performance

Name: Kingston KC2000
Brand: Kingston

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, September 26, 2019, 01:15 PM EDT

Performance Summary: The Kingston KC2000 doesn’t blow away the competition in any one particular category, but offers strong performance – where it counts – throughout out tests. Sequential performance is good, but typically landed about in the middle of the pack versus the drives we used for comparison data. 4K reads at low queue depths were fairly strong, however, and access times were among the best of the group. The trace-based PCMark tests also showed the Kingston KC2000 in a favorable light, with the drive finishing near the top in every category.

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Kingston has clearly tuned the KC2000 for typical, consumer desktop workloads. The drive offers relatively strong performance at low queue depths, with competitive sequential transfers and quick access latencies, and it shows in the application-based benchmarks. Whether in a desktop or workstation, the Kingston KC2000 should serve most users quite well. Pricing for the KC2000 drives ranges from about $60 for the 250GB drive on up to $385 for the big-boy 2TB model. The 1TB drive we tested here can be had for roughly $190, which equates to about $0.18 per gigabyte. That puts the Kingston KC2000 in the upper-end of the price range for consumer NVMe M.2 solid state drives – they’re pricier than a 970 EVO, for example, but less than a WD Black SN750 or EVO Plus. Based on the performance we’ve seen though, pricing is right in-line where it should be. If you’re shopping for a high-speed, well-rounded NVMe SSD that won’t break the bank, the Kingston KC2000 should be on your short list of considerations.


Competitive Overall Performance Strong Access Times and QD1 Perf Good Warranty and Endurance	Middling Sequenitals Small Price Premium

Tags: SSD, Kingston, Storage, nvme, m.2, solid-state-drive

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