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

As it's a drive aimed at the Enterprise market segment, it comes as no surprise to find that the DCP1000 ships in a pretty plain brown box with just Kingston's branding on it, the drive name in the bottom right with a NVMe logo on the other side.

All that's in the box is a standard length PCI bracket (we swapped it out for the short one that comes attached to the drive, which is the one you can see on the box) and a tiny installation guide.

The DCP-1000 is built on an HHHL (half-height, half-length) format PCB measuring 168 x 69 x 18 mm. Practically all of the PCB is covered by a passive heatsink, the only part of the board not covered is where the nine power capacitors sit. These provide hardware data loss protection against power failure.

We haven't taken the drive apart to photograph the internals as we hope to do some further testing with it and didn't want to risk upsetting the thermal properties of the drive.

Looking after Kingston's SSDs is their SSD Manager utility.

 
Compared to some of its rival's it's a very simple affair. It supports firmware upgrades for the drive and the S.M.A.R.T section has a useful temperature readout.

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