Kingston XS1000 External SSD Review

To test the real-life performance of a drive we use a mix of folder/file types and by using the FastCopy utility (which gives a time as well as MB/s result) we record the performance of drive reading from & writing to a 2TB Seagate FireCuda 510.

Transfer Details:

• Windows 10 backup – 118GB.
• Data file – 100GB.
• BluRay Movie – 42GB.
• Windows 11 iso – 5.4GB.
• File folder – 50GB – 28,523 files.
• Steam folder – 222GB (8 games: Alien Isolation, Battlefield 4, BioShock Infinite, Crysis 3, Grand Theft Auto V, Shadow Of Mordor, Skyrim, The Witcher3 Wild Hunt).
• Movie demos 8K – 21GB – (11 demos).
• Raw Movie Clips 4K – 16GB – (9 MP4V files).
• Movie folder – 12GB – 15 files – (8 @ .MKV, 4 @ .MOV, 3 @ MP4).
• Photo Folder – 10GB – 304 files – (171 @ .RAW, 105 @ JPG, 21 @ .CR2, 5 @ .DNG).
• Audio Folder – 10GB – 1,483 files – (1479 @ MP3, 4 @ .FLAC files).
• Single large image – 5GB – 1.5bn pixel photo.
• 3D Printer File Folder – 4.25GB – (166 files – 105 @ .STL, 38 @ .FBX, 11 @ .blend, 5 @ .lwo, 4 @ .OBJ, 3@ .3ds).
• AutoCAD File Folder – 1.5GB (80 files – 60 @ .DWG and 20 @.DXF).

The XS1000 handled our real-life file transfers without any problems. The drive averaged 736MB/s in write mode for the 14 transfers, the fastest being the 936MB/s for the 100GB data file.

As for reads it averaged 932MB/s with the fastest speed being the 1,031MB/s produced by the 100GB Data file, 4K Movie Clips folder and the 5GB image transfers. The slowest transfer was, as usual in this test the 50GB File folder at 304MB/s for reads and 278MB/s for writes.

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