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Kingston KC3000 512G SKC3000S512G

 SKC3000S512G

The Kingston KC3000 512G (SKC3000S/512G) is a fast PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2280 drive. It offers a low profile graphene aluminium heat spreader and read speeds of up to 7000 MB/s (3900 MB/s write). It uses a Phison E18 controller and 3D TLC chips. The MTBF is specified at 1,800,000 hours and 400 Total Terabytes Written (TBW).

TypeSSD
SizeM.2 2280
Capacity512 GB
InterfaceNVMe
Announced20.11.2022
LinkKingston KC3000 512G SKC3000S512G

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - DiskSpd
50.7 pt (61%)
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AS SSD - Copy Game
1151 MB/s (19%)
AS SSD - Copy Program
390.1 MB/s (14%)
AS SSD - Copy ISO
2403 MB/s (22%)
AS SSD - Score Total
6722 Points (49%)
AS SSD - Score Write
3477 Points (48%)
AS SSD - Score Read
2207 Points (47%)
AS SSD - Access Time Write *
0 ms (0%)
AS SSD - Access Time Read *
0.1 ms (0%)
AS SSD - 4K-64 Write
2866 MB/s (49%)
AS SSD - 4K-64 Read
1551 MB/s (43%)
AS SSD - 4K Write
237.8 MB/s (46%)
AS SSD - 4K Read
75.4 MB/s (24%)
AS SSD - Sequential Write
3737 MB/s (33%)
AS SSD - Sequential Read
5799 MB/s (45%)
CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5/6 Write 4K
260.9 MB/s (24%)
CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5/6 Read 4K
78.8 MB/s (2%)
CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5 Write Seq
3944 MB/s (21%)
CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5 Read Seq
4174 MB/s (50%)
CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5/6 Write 4K Q32T1
612 MB/s (20%)
CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5/6 Read 4K Q32T1
777 MB/s (12%)
CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5/6 Write Seq Q32T1
3943 MB/s (26%)
CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5/6 Read Seq Q32T1
7088 MB/s (38%)
DiskSpd - DiskSpd 4k_q1t1_write
284 MB/s (65%)
DiskSpd - DiskSpd 4k_q1t1_read
80.4 MB/s (23%)
DiskSpd - DiskSpd 4k_q32t16_write
3741 MB/s (67%)
DiskSpd - DiskSpd 4k_q32t16_read
1942 MB/s (31%)
DiskSpd - DiskSpd seq_write
3938 MB/s (42%)
DiskSpd - DiskSpd seq_read
4168 MB/s (59%)
DiskSpd - DiskSpd seq_q8t1_write
3938 MB/s (27%)
DiskSpd - DiskSpd seq_q8t1_read
7061 MB/s (44%)
DiskSpd - DiskSpd Loop seq_q8t1_read
7038 MB/s (43%)
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Klaus Hinum (Update: 2022-11-20)