Kingston KC600 SSD SKC600/512G Internal SSD 2.5", SATA Rev 3.0, 3D TLC, XTS-AES 256-bit encryption

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SSD is the KC600 which features a full security suite which should appeal to the business end of the market, if no-one else.

Our lifetime warranty guarantees that if your memory should ever fail we will replace or repair the product free of charge. The KC600 performs excellently in HD Tune, with one of the highest average speeds we’ve recorded and a solid burst rate as well. 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.

From a feature perspective, the KC600 ticks almost all the boxes, but can it turn any heads with performance? Couldn't find it, but used the "Chat" facility, and it was very helpful in providing the part no I required. With it, you can monitor the health of the drive and how it’s being used, check the drive’s SMART data and update the firmware as well as securely erasing the drive. It’s easy to forget that when SATA first arrived its maximum performance was barely quicker than the best physical disk speeds, and the only way to greater speeds was to use RAID packs of multiple drives. Just like the Consistency test, PCMark 8’s Standard Storage test also saves a large amount of performance data.

I received good advice from the support department at Kingston (Leigh) with regards to options and compatibility. Kingston state that the TBW endurance figure for the 1TB drive is 600TB and back the drive with a 5-year warranty. Kingston’s KC600 is a full capacity SSD designed to provide remarkable performance and optimized to provide functional system responsiveness with incredible boot, loading, and transfer times. It runs through four phases; Preconditioning, Degradation, Steady State, Recovery and finally Clean Up. If you should receive a product that has been damaged while in transit please reach out to us here within 2 Days and we will certainly be able to address your concerns.

All the test traces show drops in bandwidth but none more so than the Indesign trace which is the hardest hit. But the new controller and 3D NAND won’t address the limitations of this form factor when compared with NVMe options, so this is decent option if you’re limited to SATA. Least affected appeared to be the Illustrator trace which after dropping bandwidth at the fifth Degradation phase, quickly recovered without any further dramatic loses.

Kingston offers the drive in two versions, standalone (like our review sample) or as part of a desktop/notebook upgrade kit. The controller uses the latest Silicon Motion NANDXtend, a proprietary ECC technology that uses LDPC hard and soft decoding as well as RAID protection, all of which enhance the P/E cycles of 3D NAND ensuring both data integrity and SSD lifespan.We are a credit broker not a lender - credit is subject to status and affordability, and is provided by Mitsubishi HC Capitol UK PIC. Limited warranty based on 5 years or “SSD Life Remaining” which can be found using the Kingston SSD Manager (Kingston. Use ATTO Disk Benchmark to test any manufacturers RAID controllers, storage controllers, host adapters, hard drives and SSD drives and notice that ATTO products will consistently provide the highest level of performance to your storage.