Kingston UV500/480G SSD Review

Benchmarks

Following benchmarks were performed to demonstrate in lab and real world performance data.

CrystalDiskMark was performed on the stock (right out of the box) SX950 and at 75% full SX950. Read and write tests for “Seq Q32T1”, “4K Q32T1”, “Seq” and “4K”.

AIDA64 disk benchmark suite that measures read performance (in MB/s) and shows average read access. All tests are set to 1MB block size.

AIDA64 75% Full Read benchmark

AIDA64 75% Full Linear Read benchmark

AIDA64 75% Full Random Read benchmark

AIDA64 75% Full Random Write benchmark

ATTO disk benchmark is a 32-bit compressible data benchmark that measures read and write speeds across various file transfer sizes from 0.5KB to 8192KB to show SSD behavior.

ATTO Stock UV500 vs ATTO 75% Full UV500

AS SSD uses incompressible data for benchmarking and can measure read/write performance in MB/s or in IOPS. AS SSD also has a Copy Benchmark which simulates ISO, Game and program performance, providing both speed and access time results.

AS SSD stock UV500

AS SSD Copy Benchmark

Anvil Storage Utilities is a comprehensive storage testing program that provides plenty of information and option for each test. For this review, 100% incompressible, 46% incompressible (simulating Applications) and 0-fill compression data were used to observe behavior across.

Anvil Storage Utilities 0% Incompressible UV500

Anvil Storage Utilities 46% Incompressible UV500

Anvil Storage Utilities 100% Incompressible UV500

PCMark 8 from Futuremark is a semi-synthetic testing suite that has a specialized Storage testing performance feature. It simulates storage performance while playing games, running productivity and creative programs and generates a total score based on how long each test took and the storage device behavior during its 3-set run.

PCMark8 stock UV500 vs 75% full UV500