Reviewers Liked
- Small form factor
- 5-year warranty
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Runs hot and can cause thermal throttling
Kingston 2.5" SSDNow KC1000 Series SATA600
86
8.4
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By TopNewReview
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Its excellent 5-year warranty and strong endurance ratings contrasts starkly with its patchy...
By TheStreamingBlog
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We really loved trying out the new KC1000 from Kingston since it was really fast and excellent; the product impresses users for both its read and write speed and its M.2-2280 is a common format that should fit every machine that features the M.2 slot....
By techPowerUp!
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The Kingston KC1000 240 GB SSD is currently available online for $130. Compact form factor PCIe adapter included Uses MLC flash, no write hole 3-year warranty Acronis True Image included A bit more expensive than competing drives Thermal throttling with...
By techadvisor.co.uk
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Kingston's KC1000 strikes almost the perfect balance between performance, price and endurance. For this price, the five-year warranty is reassuring and worth the slight trade-off in performance against competitors such as Samsung's 960 EVO, so long as...
By ImpulseGamer
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The Kingston KC1000 480GB NVMe M.2 2280 SSD is a very impressive unit from this company that offers users some impressive and I must stress, impressive speeds. All in all, it's a well-designed product from Kingston that pushes the boundaries of your...
By Craving Tech
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This thing flies. Really flies.Kingston KC1000 NVMe PCIe SSD Review – To those who think that upgrading from a regular Hard Disk Drive (HDD) to a Solid State Drive (SSD) is good enough, think again.Most likely, you'd have a 2.5″ SSD on the SATA...
By ThinkComputers
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Kingston does have a really good drive in the KC1000. All of the Phison E7-based drives we've test this year have been really good and almost all of them we could recommend. The Kingston drive does stand out because it can be had as a normal M.2 drive...
By pcquest.com
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Kingston's KC1000 NVMe SSD is the fastest Kingston SSD drive we have tested and moreover, the price of the NVMe SSD drives are much lower than any other PCIe SSDs present in the market right now and the best part is that all KC1000 SSD drives come with...
By Gadgets360
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Kingston says that you can expect over twice the performance of a standard SATA SSD, and over 40 times as much speed as a 7200rpm hard drive can manage. Any machine you build around a KC1000 PCIe SSD will boot lightning-fast, and you won't have the...
By Kitguru.net
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It is somewhat of a surprise to find that the fastest Kingston drive we have tested to date doesn't come from the companies high performance HyperX line. The KC1000 is listed under the company's Consumer, Business and System Builder segments. This does...
By Legit Reviews
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The Kingston KC1000 series has solid performance and we were shocked to see that we greatly exceeded the rated speeds on the 960GB model that we tested. Kingston says that the KC1000 960GB drive has up to 2700 MB/s sequential read and 1600 MB/s...
By proclockers.com
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We have to admit we love testing new SSD's with their blazing fast performance and that new hardware burn in smell you get when you really put the benchmarks to a drive. The Kingston KC1000 M.2 480GB NVMe SSD roars in at 2.7GB/s read and 1.6GB/s write...
By eTeknix
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Pricing and AvailabilityThe Kingston KC1000 is available now, or it will be shortly. Which, depends a little bit on where in the world you are located. In the UK, you can order the 480GB version with HHHL adapter that I've tested today for £273.09. The...
By hardzone.es
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Un SSD de gama media con mucho que mejorarEl KC1000 es el dispositivo de estado sólido de mejor rendimiento y capacidad que puede ofrecer Kingston para el mercado de consumidor a día de hoy, y como por lo que hemos visto a lo largo de este análisis, al...
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