Comments on: Kingston KC3000 PCIe 4.0 NVME SSD Review – Did Kingston Just Release a ‘Game’ Changer?

By: Elias

Elias — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 12:12:09 +0000

It does throttle. Awefully. Computer almost comes to complete halt. Has taken me 12 months to figure this out.

By: Alex Stoica

Alex Stoica — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 20:37:26 +0000

Do you have any idea why my Random 4k write is limited to 250k ? instead of 1000k as Kingston claims… ?
I do use a Gen3 m2 slot but the random read/write speeds shouldn’t be affected.
Also my random read speed is close to 700k, still way more than the read speed.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 13:50:38 +0000

Great review! Regarding the addition of a more powerful heat sink, did you remove the grapheme aluminum heat spreader and then attach a more powerful heat sink or did you put the new heat sink right on top of the graphene aluminum heat spreader? We are assembling a QNAP NAS device using 2 Kingston KC3000 M.2 drives. This NAS will be the primary storage device where VMs and network shares are stored. There is plenty of space inside the QNAP to attach a rather tall heat sink onto these M.2s, so we are considering the SABRENT M.2 2280 SSD Rocket Heatsink (SB-HTSK). Any thoughts or recommendations? Thank you for your time and consideration.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 23:10:32 +0000

Les, please, pretty please, with sugar on top… Test such modern SSDs, like this one, on PCIe3 as well. Not on new motherboards but on “standard” stuff, on the usual iron that people have at home.

Cause, if the low QD performance of such modern drive is due to fast controller/NAND and not strictly PCIe4 spec, a lot of people would be interested in buying such PCIe4 SSDs to install in their laptops/desktops that only have PCIe3 M2, as it would translate in double the storage performance in real life.
(by real life I mean decent QD of 1-4, not 32)

If this drive keeps its QD 1-4 performance on PCIe3, I wouldn’t care that it can’t exceed 3.5GB/s because of the PCIe3 spec, I’d be happy that it’s two times faster than any PCIe3 drive in real life.

By: Les Tokar

Les Tokar — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 13:27:57 +0000

In reply to netmann. Kingston is selling its premium product no different than Samsung, Sabrent, TeamGroup, WD, Seagate, Mushkin and Silicon Power have so let's try to avoid the 'shock and awe' comments. As we have done with several products, we have provided our thoughts on temperature in the same fashion we typically do, adding a bit more emphasis as this drive has a heat spreader, most likely for normal use or that of a PS5. Our testing is as intensive as it gets and so I added that we needed the larger heatsink for heat concerns. We prefer the lowest temps for our testing. I don't recall mentioning thermal throttling whatsoever.