Kingston SKC1000/240G SKC1000/240G KC1000 NVMe PCIe 240 GB M.2 PCI Express 3.0 Solid State Drive, Black

Installed into Dell Precision Tower 5810 running Windows 10 Pro 64bit as NVMe boot device in Bios.It took a small bit of tinkering to coax the perfect settings out in the Bios before I could install Windows 10, but after that things went smoothly and quickly. I'd been running a clean install of 10 version 1803 from the start as I'd found the RC candidate was available online the day I was installing this Tower and didn't want to setup the older version only to have to run the update a few days later.Boot speeds are very quick, and general throughput of programs and data is mostly effortless although I still feel Windows 10 loses it's way from time to time. This is by no means a criticism of the Kingston SSD or any of the other standard Sata SSD I run on other Dell Precision Workstations. Largely speaking the Kingston drive is faster than a standard SSD in day to day use, but there is not a huge gap between it and the Samsung 950 or 960 series drives, maybe 10% to 20% difference at most except in a few tasks where the drive appears to really excel. Transferring and re-organising iTunes was certainly faster, and some light to medium video editing tasks appeared to fly along, with less jitter during the edit and preview steps too.One of the benefits of moving primary data transfer to the Pci / NVMe configuration means that I can delegate slower tasks onto the SATA bus, running DVD and Blu Ray tasks on the optical drive and I've installed an Internal Dell RDX1000 drive into the Precision so that I can use this machine to run an extra tier of backups in the evening and still be able to run a video or 3D render overnight too.I found the price of the 480Gb Drive competitive, even more so in my case as I picked up an Amazon Warehouse discounted model because rather oddly Amazon would ship this unit to my home address in Ireland, where as they would not ship the standard amazon 240 or 480Gb units to Ireland, despite claims to the contrary. (You need to do better here Amazon.)Another worry I had about this Kingston 480Gb drive was throttling due to overheating, but on this score I have had no issues at all. I mounted the drive at the very top of the Dell T5810, in a slot that benefits from a reasonable cross draft of cooling air washing over the whole of the card from a side vent in the main memory ducting. I notched the Fan settings up a few percentage points in the Bios to ensure cooling, but kept it low enough that there was no audible change in noise from the fans. After keeping a close eye on the device for a week or so using the Kingston SSD Manager I've found that the PCIe device stays well below the 90'c threshold listed in the software, tending to hover around the 40'C to 44'C mark under light to medium use, maybe topping out at 48'C when pushed.I'm pleased to have been able to make the jump from SATA to PCIe and will certainly continue to do so using Kingston devices at this price point, although I am sure that other manufacturers will follow on in time and begin offering the higher quality MLC Nand Kingston have used on this excellent drive.

I love this. Allowed me to add tiered storage into a server and instantly saw performance gains.

Absolutely no problems with this. It's very easy to install, you just plug it in and its ready to use. I found it perfect for using as a cache drive for video editing as it speeds up rendering workflow considerably. Really, there's no comparison to working with a standard drive, and if time is precious to you and you have a large workload, this really speeds things along and makes your life so much easier.While 250gb is a decent size, it fills up quickly if using it as a cache drive for after effects video, though you can just clear the cache. That's a minor nitpick though, as that's just the nature of working with video editing and rendering. This is a quality product, and I would definitely recommend for video editing/compositing.

Wonderfully speedy ssd drive. After some research , to establish my motherboard/pc setup could "cope"with this ssd as a bootable system drive, i bought it. The installation in the PCIe gen 3 x16 slot was really easy. With some careful aligning of the contacts with the x16 slot and the end bracket, it clicked simply into place. I screwed the bracket to the pc casing and hey., presto! I ran crystaldiskmark and as ssd mark benchmark programs to see the speed as advertised, it worked (as a storage drive)Beforehand i read on internet to turn CSM off in Uefi bios, which i did.(set to uefi boot options only, not legacy boot).I then cloned my existing windows10 OS from the previous sata ssd (app. same amount of GBs) to the new NVMe ssd.Power off, disconnected old ssd with old win10. Booted with bootmenu, selected the available kingston as boot device and windows 10 booted without a problem.After another reboot to see if the ne kingston drive kept booting, i powerd off and reconnected the old sata ssd too. I found out that my first of 6 sata ports (all ports devices connected) now didn't work anymore, due to, as i later gathered, my MoBO pcie x16 connection sharing with a sata port connection. Fortunately , only ONE sata port was disabled by this setup.(I have a Gigabyte GA-H97-HD3 mobo with F8 uefi bios for NVMe support)Next day, after finding the new drive boot system win10 was stable, i repartioned and formatted the old sata ssd with the previous OS win10 on it (my retainable data was on a separate spinning HDD) . I furthermore ran teh crystaldisk and as ssd benchmark programs again. Still excellent speed values measured. Only one caveat with this drive: it runs rather HOT. just runniing the OS with nothing special going on starts the temperature at around 47 C. When running a pinball game or a video/audio editing or recoding job, it gets, in my case, up to 67 C. (or higher, depending on how heavy you would use it) . I am looking into buying a heatsink stick on solution for this, as i read that at 55 C and upwards, you apparently get some speed throttling on this drive. Which is a shame, as you tend to buy a NVMe ssd for the increased speed!It's one of the cheapest but still REALLY fast NVME ssd's .But all in all, i am a satisfied customer and can recommend this drive, even though you need to do some pre-purchase research on your system specs , if you want it as a bootable system OS drive.( In most cases, using it as a fast storage drive non-boot device, will be no problem. )[For fastest boot device, it needs a Gen 3.0 PCIe slot with at least 4 lanes. It also fits the x16 PCIe slot usually used for graphic cards]

This Hard Drive came in anti-static and shock proof packaging this is why I'm giving it 1 extra star.It did not performed as advertised. I have Gigabyte Intel GA-B250M-D3H LGA 1151 Micro ATX Motherboard with I7-7700k processor and 16GB 2300MB DDR4 RAMs.There was no reason for speeds to be as follow:Write: 600 MB/sRead: 1000 MB/sThis was very disapointing and I did try several benchmarks to test this product properly. If I'm purchasing fast hard drive I expect to act at least close to its advertised speeds. Just to add to minimise any doubts, I did insert it to Ultra-Fast M.2 with PCIe Gen3 x4 slot.I have returned this SSD around 04/04/2018 and still waiting for refund.

I used this drive as a boot drive for a HP Z440 workstation. I had not had a single issue to date, as I am testing deployment solutions I found the extra performance has allowed me to keep this workstation years past the warranty expiry date. Could recommend!

I like the KC1000 & it is fast but I had one hell of a time trying to get this to work in Linux.The problems I had, had nothing to do with "Kingston Digital KC1000 NVMe" but in general NVMe PICe.I had to rebuild the Linux Kernel & bake in everything dealing with NVMe into the kernel just so I could boot the rootfs.Not many Tut's out there telling you this & the one's I could find only told me to enable one setting in kernel & not the other 6 settings that are needed.I'm sure it's easy to get KC1000 running in Microsoft Windows.I'm a big fan Kingston been buying Kingston products for years & I have never had any product problems.

E" sicuramente più veloce della scheda SSD SATA M.2,sempre Kingston, ma l"apertura dei programmi non si velocizza con la stessa percentuale. Il notebook comunque carica il SO (win10 64bit) in circa 13".

J'avais déjà des SSD de bonnes performances (500MB/s), mais là c'est très très loin devant. Il faut évidemment disposer d'un port M.2 compatible NVMe, et le régler sur PCIe x4 si besoin dans le BIOS pour obtenir les meilleurs performances.En effet, mes tests avec CrystalDiskMark6 montrent un débit de 2.7Go/s en lecture et 1.2Go/s en écriture. Sur le même PC, les SSDs montent seulement à 500MB/s. Avec un réglage PCIe x2 dans le BIOS, j'obtiens 'seulement' 1.7Go/s et 1.2Go/s en lecture/écriture. Déjà très supérieur aux SSDs.Je n'ai constaté aucune surchauffe et compte en mettre un deuxième en RAID 0 pour doubler les performances ;)

Works really well and is super fast. I use it as a cloning drive for my OS. where platters take about an hour to clone, this takes about 2-3 minutes, so no time at all for 200gb of data.