Some of the listed capacity on a Flash storage device is used for formatting and other functions and thus is not available for data storage. Public Sector accounts have access to instant 30-day credit terms, a dedicated technical pre-sales account manager and can also benefit from our signature hardware config services. PCMark 10 is a trace-based benchmark that uses a wide-ranging set of real-world traces from popular applications and everyday tasks to measure the performance of storage devices. Everything about the drive is top-notch, well, maybe not the blister packaging, but everywhere it matters, the KC3000 is as good as it gets.

CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSDs. We also threw in the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus, Patriot Viper VP4300, and Adata XPG Gammix S50 Lite for good measure. More DRAM means faster PC performance when editing from video, from playback responsiveness to render time.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. For the KC3000, Kingston is using premium 1600 MT speed Micron 176L dies, cut, stacked, and packaged in-house. PCMark 10 Storage Test is the most advanced and most accurate real-world consumer storage test ever made. Gaming is a performance metric that matters to the majority of DIY consumers, especially to the enthusiast crowd that TweakTown caters to.

Although the trade-off is a slower empty-to-fill time, the KC3000 is still tuned well for most gamers, prosumers, and storage enthusiasts.If this is the fastest drive available it is most likely to demonstrate any possible benefit to the PCIe 5.