Kingston DCP1000 1.6TB SSD Review – 7GB/s beast!

1. Introduction2. Kingston DCP-10001.6TB3. Testing Methodology4. ATTO Disk Benchmark5. Sustained Read/Write Performance6. 8K Random Read/Read Performance RAID 07. 8K Random Read / Write Performance RAID 18. 8K 70/30 Performance9. Performance Stability10. Workload Scenarios11. PCMark8 Storage Test - Individual Test Suites12. Real Life File Testing13. Closing Thoughts14. View All Pages

The combination of Kingston and Liqid Inc was bound to produce something quite special and with the DCP1000 they have produced as, Kingston state, the fastest HHHL (Half-Height Half Length ) NVMe SSD seen to date. Aimed at the flash based data center, the drive has at its heart four NVMe SSD drives and it uses them to stunning effect. It goes without saying this is the fastest drive we have tested to date and then some. It is available in three capacities; 800GB, 1.6TB and 3.2TB.

The 1.6TB drive Kingston kindly supplied for review uses four 400GB M.2 NVMe SSDs each using a PhisonPS5007-11 8-channel controller and Toshiba 15nm MLC NAND. The drives are connected to a PLX PEX8725 24-lane PCIe Gen 3.0 switch which in turn connects to the PCB's PCIe 3.0 x8 interface. The drive is bootable and plug and play and is identified by the OS as four logical drives which can be used in a number of ways including as RAID arrays.

To say the performance is stunning is a major understatement. The official Sequential numbers for the 1.6TB drive are 6,800MB/s for reads and 6,000MB/s for writes. We even managed to better them with the ATTO benchmark, the review drive giving up a read figure of 7,011MB/s with writes at 6,511MB/s when the drives were built into a RAID 0 array.

4K Random read figures are even more impressive, with reads up to 1.1m, yep 1.1 million IOPS and writes at 200,000. With our 8K enterprise tests we couldn't reach those dizzy heights for reads, the best being 729,361 IOPS, still pretty impressive. However for writes we got a maximum of 421.412 IOPS.

The drive supports a broad spectrum of operating systems; Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (via updates or Hotfix driver download), Linux Kernel 3.3 and higher, FreeBSD 10.x/11, VMware vSphere 6.0 (vSphere 5.5 as download driver).

We found the 1.6TB version of the DCP1000 available to pre-order on Insight for £1461 inc vat HERE

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Pros.

• Extreme performance.
• Flexible drive setups.

Cons

• Didn't do so well in some of our tests with smaller files.

Kitguru says: Outside its natural environment the DCP1000 is a very niche drive but if you have the need to shift large sized files very, VERY quickly then it's all the drive you need.

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