The NV2 1 TB has an expected lifespan of 160 TBW (terabytes written) and 1,500,000 hours MTBF (mean time between failures). Printer File Folder – (166 files – 105 @ .STL, 38 @ .FBX, 11 @ .blend, 5 @ .lwo, 4 @ .OBJ, 3@ .3ds). Temperature is measured in degree Celcius (ºC) at system idle and load. This is done via AIDA64 Extreme and its System Stability Test. In spite of its unimpressive sequential throughput, Intel’s now-retired Optane SSD lineup remains among the best ever in terms of real-world performance. One of the key reasons was their very low latency – a hugely important factor for user experience. The entry-level Kingston drive outperforms most Gen3 SSDs here, which is good news. Loading Times (PCMark 10, FF XIV) At QD8 a single thread produced 97,376 IOPS (398MB/s), two threads 130,998 IOPS (536MB/s), three threads 167,900 IOPs (687MB/s) and finally with four threads, 181,293 IOPS (742MB/s).

File copy performance is measured in Seconds (s). This is done via AS SSD and its File Copy benchmark. Operations per Second is measured in Input/Output Operations per Second (IOPS) at read and write. This is done via Crystal Disk Mark and its 4K benchmark. We were impressed by the Kingston NV2 2 TB's exceptional read and write speeds, making it an excellent gaming choice. Based on my experience working with a range of SSDs offering similar speeds, I can ensure that game loading times will be significantly reduced compared to HDDs, resulting in an exceptional gaming experience.Estimated delivery times are provided to us by the respective delivery companies. We pass this information onto you, the customer. cp1 Copying 4 ISO image files, 20 GB in total, from a secondary drive to the target drive (write test). The entry-level Gen 4 SSD market segment is, by its nature, rapidly becoming a highly competitive one. Aiming for a slice of the action is Kingston with its NV2 drive, a successor to the PCIe Gen 3×4 NV1 drive. The drive offers pretty consistent performance at QDs 1 & 2 but as the queue depth deepens the drive begins to drop down the results graph.

The PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark uses a wide-ranging set of real-world traces from popular applications and common tasks to fully test the performance of the fastest modern drives. The benchmark is designed to measure the performance of fast system drives using the SATA bus at the low end and devices connected via PCI Express at the high end.

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To get a measure of how much faster PCIe NVMe drives are than standard SATA SSD we use the same files but transfer to and from a 2TB Kioxia Exceria Plus drive: Kingston doesn't provide any random performance figures on the specification sheet for the NV2. Using our 4-threaded tests, the best performance figure we saw for random reads was 201,266 IOPS (824.385MB/s) at QD32.

The NV2's best performance in the queue depth tests came at QD2 where its result of 2,766MB/s puts it in the top half of the 1TB class consumer drives we've tested to date. As the QD deepens the drive slips down the chart. The SM2267XT is the DRAM-less version of Silicon's SM2267 controller. Instead of an onboard DRAM chip, it uses HMB (Host Memory Buffer) technology. Built on a 28nm process, the 4-channel SM2267XT uses 2 ARM Corex R5 CPU's supporting a NAND channel speed of 1,200MT/s, File copy performance is measured in Seconds (s). This is done via TeraCopy and 16 GB worth of files. The NV2 handled the rigours of the PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark reasonably well. The fastest individual trace result came from the Adobe Photoshop heavy usage trace at 828MB/s with the drive averaging 294.5MB/s for the other four usage traces. The six Adobe startup traces averaged 210MB/s with the fastest being Premiere Pro at 251MB/s and the slowest, Lightroom at 146MB/s. For testing, the drives are all wiped and reset to factory settings by HDDerase V4. We try to use free or easily available programs and some real-world testing so you can compare our findings against your own system.Using the Peak Performance profile in CrystalDiskMark 8 we could once again confirm the maximum official figures with the best read/write results of 3,668MB/s and 2,581MB/s respectively.