At the heart of the drive is a four-channel Silicon Motion SM2259 controller which looks after Micron 96-layer 3D TLC NAND.

Kingston’s KC600 (SKC600/256G) is a full-capacity SSD designed to provide remarkable performance and optimised to provide functional system responsiveness with incredible boot, loading and transfer times.PCMark 8’s Consistency test provides a huge amount of performance data, so here we’ve looked a little closer at how the KC600 performs in each of the benchmarks test suites. The trademark Mr Memory is the exclusive property of Americanino Limited and is protected by UK Trademark Registration No: 2616298. All our results were achieved by running each test five times with every configuration this ensures that any glitches are removed from the results. From a feature perspective, the KC600 ticks almost all the boxes, but can it turn any heads with performance?

Limited warranty based on 5 years or “SSD Life Remaining” which can be found using the Kingston SSD Manager. We finish up with HD Tune Pro, a benchmark which produces three scores for average read speed, read access time, and burst read rate. Kingston state that the TBW endurance figure for the 1TB drive is 600TB and back the drive with a 5-year warranty.The Kingston KC600 is a new budget-friendly SSD, designed to offer performance at the very limit of the SATA 3 interface from capacities that range from 256GB all the way up to 2TB.

Interface SATA 6Gb/s Features 3D NAND Technology, eDrive, Silicon Motion SM2259 controller Width 69. That’s a pretty impressive package, containing everything you could possibly need to make use of this drive!Please note that the lifetime warranty refers only to memory modules and not flash memory or storage products. The KC600 sounds promising and we have a 1TB drive with kit to test, so let’s not make Dave keep reading any longer and get right to the good stuff.

The cryptographic functionalities, mentioned in the present section, are implemented in the firmware of the product. There's another drop in bandwidth for the Word trace in the fifth Degradation test, but again the KC600 recovers well. The two halves of the enclosure are held together by four Torx security screws one of which is hidden under the warranty sticker, so by accessing the internals of the drive you can kiss your warranty goodbye.Servers Plus enjoy direct relationships with all of the world's leading server, storage and networking vendors, and as such we can offer you unrivalled pricing, exclusive bundles and range of cashback offers. Futuremark’s PCMark 8 is a very good all round system benchmark but its Storage Consistency Test takes it to whole new level when testing SSD drives. From a very low bandwidth point in the first Degradation phase, the performance recovers very well in the Word trace for the MS Office part of the test.