Compared to the Kingston A2000 with the old firmware, the performance uplift is a highly impressive 8%, which is almost the entire "slowest to fastest NVMe drive" range in our test group that is 12% wide.
#Search kingston ssd manager pro#
The fastest drives in our test group are not too far ahead: ADATA SX8200 Pro, HP EX950, and Samsung 970 Pro are only 2% faster, and the Kingston KC2000 is 3% faster-but at higher price points. It is now close to the top of our performance charts, battling it out with drives like the Samsung 970 EVO, WD Black (2018), and Intel 760p. With the new firmware, available in Kingston SSD Manager, the Kingston A2000 performs much better. Surprisingly, that was the only test that showed less than stellar results on the old firmware-everything else, sequential and random IO, looked great, but real-life performance numbers were different. Our sequential QD1 mixed test simulates this typical "read data, process, and write back" data flow that happens in a lot of programs. The original problem was related to reading and writing large chunks of data in parallel, at low queue-depths.
The value-oriented Kingston A2000 has received the same update, so I wanted to review it, too.
#Search kingston ssd manager update#
A few weeks ago I reviewed the Kingston KC2000, which received a new firmware update to fix a performance issue with low QD1 sequential mixed performance.
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