Kingston XS1000 External SSD Review

The PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark has been designed to test drives that are used for storing files rather than applications. You can also use this test with NAS drives, USB sticks, memory cards, and other external storage devices.

The Data Drive Benchmark uses 3 traces, running 3 passes with each trace:

Trace 1. Copying 339 JPEG files, 2.37 GB in total, into the target drive (write test).
Trace 2. Making a copy of the JPEG files (read-write test).
Trace 3. Copying the JPEG files to another drive (read test)

Here we show the total bandwidth performance for each of the individual traces.

The XS1000 does pretty well in PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark sitting in a mid-table position all of the tests.

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