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Kingston KC3000
NVME · 2TB · Released October 25, 2021
Built on Phison's E18 controller with TLC NAND and a DRAM cache, the KC3000 delivers 7000 MB/s in both directions and up to 1 million random IOPS, flagship-class numbers for a PCIe 4.0 drive. Its 1600TB TBW rating dwarfs the 640TB figure Kingston lists for the NV3, making it the sibling built for creators and workstation users who write large volumes of data repeatedly rather than users running general desktop workloads. The 5-year warranty backs that endurance claim as much as the raw speed numbers.
Specifications
- Capacity
- 2TB
- Interface
- NVME
- Sequential read
- 7000 MB/s
- Sequential write
- 7000 MB/s
- Random read
- 1000000 IOPS
- Random write
- 1000000 IOPS
- PCIe generation
- 4
- Form factor
- M.2 2280
- NAND type
- TLC
- DRAM cache
- Yes
- Controller
- Phison E18
- Endurance (TBW)
- 1600 TB
- Warranty
- 5 years
Capacities
| Capacity | Part number |
|---|---|
| 512GB | SKC3000S/512G |
| 1TB | SKC3000S/1024G |
| 2TB | SKC3000D/2048G |
| 4TB | SKC3000D/4096G |
Sources
Every spec above was pulled from one of these — a field a source didn't state was left off rather than estimated.