[Testing] Kingston UV300 Solid State Drive with 120 gigabyte TLC memory
Hi Giktayms! Recently there was the announcement of the first drive in the Kingston lineup using the TLC memory type and I promised to immediately introduce GT readers to the disc as soon as it is in my hands. I am pleased to fulfill my promise: under the cat, testing Kingston UV300 with a capacity of 120 gigabytes.
Kingston SSD packaging is quite traditional and does not contain additional decorative expensive elements. Transparent plastic blister - that's the whole package. This is quite enough not only to use the drive, but also simply necessary to maintain the acceptability and adequacy of the price of SSDs.
Kingston UV300 is built on the Phison PS3110-S10 eight-channel controller. This is the most progressive option from the current range of the manufacturer. The flagship solutions that have already been reviewed within the framework of this blog are made on the same basis, so there is no need to doubt the controller, we will focus on memory.
The memory is equipped with 8 TLC chips under the Kingston label with the label FT16B08UCT1-B0, each with a capacity of 16 gigabytes. Thus, the total disk capacity is 128 gigabytes, of which not the entire volume is available to the user, but only 111.67 gigabytes, the rest is reserved for the backup area.
The cache memory with a capacity of 128 megabytes is organized by the Nanya NT5CC128M16FP-DI chip .
The official specifications of the drive suggest a speed of sequential read / write at 450/450 MB / s, while working with random blocks of 4K size - up to 85000/60000 IOPS.
The TBW parameter that determines the maximum amount of information that can be written to the disk is set at 60 terabytes for a 120 gigabyte disk, for 120 and 480 gigabyte disks it is 120 and 240 terabytes, respectively.
MTBF is 1 million hours, or 41,666 days, or 114 years, that is, you can work with this drive for a very long time. This figure is standard for any Kingston and HyperX SSDs.
Let's move on to the practical part. I will add the test results to the comparison with those obtained in the previous test, so that you can correctly and clearly compare the disks.
The testing methodology is quite simple:
Before the tests, the amount of information that is twice as large as the disk capacity is recorded on the disk; after each test, a pause of half an hour is made for the TRIM command to work out correctly.
A synthetic test to assess the correctness of the manufacturer's stated speeds. Actually, most of the data indicated on the boxes of SSD drives of different manufacturers was obtained using ATTO Disk Benchmark.
This test allows you to evaluate the operation of the drive in four modes: linear read / write, read / write blocks in 4K, linear read / write at a queue depth of 32 teams, read / write blocks in 4K at a queue depth of 32 teams.
The most advanced of the tests. I will conduct several testing options:
It can be seen that with a short request queue and a small file size, tangible performance problems begin.
In the PC Mark 8 test suite, it is possible to conduct performance restoration tests under continuous load.
The scheme of the package is as follows:
First, the disk (unformatted, without partitions) is filled twice in blocks of 128 KB.
Then the degradation phase follows:
The disk is filled with random blocks of different sizes from 4 KB to 1 MB. Because the blocks are not aligned, disk performance drops sharply.
The first tests begin 10 minutes after filling the disk with random blocks.
After passing the test, the filling process is repeated. Before each new test, a pause is made, which is five minutes longer than the previous one, that is, 15 minutes, 20 minutes and so on. This is repeated eight times.
After this, tests of the stable phase begin. The script is repeated five times, a pause of 5 minutes is made between runs without additional load.
This is followed by the performance recovery phase, when a five-minute pause is made between the scenarios to practice disk cleanup.
The package is testing several applications, I chose Adobe Photoshop (heavy script).
I give four graphs: average access time, read speed, write speed, total disk speed.
You can clearly see how the recording speed and access time are restored as the disk is “resting”.
You can not expect miracles while reducing the cost of the device and simplifying its circuit. Kingston UV300 is, first of all, a step towards the wishes of customers to see more affordable Kingston SSD drives of a larger volume. At the same time, the speed characteristics have not undergone significant changes, and reliability is still confirmed by a three-year warranty.
Information on the price of the device on store shelves in Russia is currently not available.
Thanks for watching , stay with Kingston at Geektimes.ru!
Kingston SSD packaging is quite traditional and does not contain additional decorative expensive elements. Transparent plastic blister - that's the whole package. This is quite enough not only to use the drive, but also simply necessary to maintain the acceptability and adequacy of the price of SSDs.
Kingston UV300 is built on the Phison PS3110-S10 eight-channel controller. This is the most progressive option from the current range of the manufacturer. The flagship solutions that have already been reviewed within the framework of this blog are made on the same basis, so there is no need to doubt the controller, we will focus on memory.
The memory is equipped with 8 TLC chips under the Kingston label with the label FT16B08UCT1-B0, each with a capacity of 16 gigabytes. Thus, the total disk capacity is 128 gigabytes, of which not the entire volume is available to the user, but only 111.67 gigabytes, the rest is reserved for the backup area.
The cache memory with a capacity of 128 megabytes is organized by the Nanya NT5CC128M16FP-DI chip .
The official specifications of the drive suggest a speed of sequential read / write at 450/450 MB / s, while working with random blocks of 4K size - up to 85000/60000 IOPS.
The TBW parameter that determines the maximum amount of information that can be written to the disk is set at 60 terabytes for a 120 gigabyte disk, for 120 and 480 gigabyte disks it is 120 and 240 terabytes, respectively.
MTBF is 1 million hours, or 41,666 days, or 114 years, that is, you can work with this drive for a very long time. This figure is standard for any Kingston and HyperX SSDs.
Let's move on to the practical part. I will add the test results to the comparison with those obtained in the previous test, so that you can correctly and clearly compare the disks.
The testing methodology is quite simple:
Before the tests, the amount of information that is twice as large as the disk capacity is recorded on the disk; after each test, a pause of half an hour is made for the TRIM command to work out correctly.
Test stand
- Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K
- Motherboard: ASUS Z170-A
- RAM: HyperX Fury DDR4-2400 16 Gb (2 * 8 Gb)
- System SSD: HyperX Predator PCI-E SSD 480 Gb
- Video Card: AMD Fury X
- Power Supply: Corsair AX1200i, 1200W
- Operating System: Windows 10 Professional (64-bit)
A set of test applications:
- ATTO disk benchmark 2.4.7
- Crystal Disk Mark 5.0.2
- IOMeter 1.1.0
- PC Mark 8
ATTO disk benchmark 2.4.7
A synthetic test to assess the correctness of the manufacturer's stated speeds. Actually, most of the data indicated on the boxes of SSD drives of different manufacturers was obtained using ATTO Disk Benchmark.
Crystal Disk Mark 5.0.2
This test allows you to evaluate the operation of the drive in four modes: linear read / write, read / write blocks in 4K, linear read / write at a queue depth of 32 teams, read / write blocks in 4K at a queue depth of 32 teams.
IOMeter 1.1.0
The most advanced of the tests. I will conduct several testing options:
- linear reading and writing (blocks of 256 kilobytes in size, request depth - 16),
- random reading and writing of blocks of 4 KB with a request queue of 16 (the result will be in MB / s).
- random reading and writing of blocks of 4 KB at the request queue 4 (the result will be in MB / s).
- random reading and writing of blocks of 4 KB at request queue 1 (the result will be in MB / s).
It can be seen that with a short request queue and a small file size, tangible performance problems begin.
Performance Recovery Tests
In the PC Mark 8 test suite, it is possible to conduct performance restoration tests under continuous load.
The scheme of the package is as follows:
First, the disk (unformatted, without partitions) is filled twice in blocks of 128 KB.
Then the degradation phase follows:
The disk is filled with random blocks of different sizes from 4 KB to 1 MB. Because the blocks are not aligned, disk performance drops sharply.
The first tests begin 10 minutes after filling the disk with random blocks.
After passing the test, the filling process is repeated. Before each new test, a pause is made, which is five minutes longer than the previous one, that is, 15 minutes, 20 minutes and so on. This is repeated eight times.
After this, tests of the stable phase begin. The script is repeated five times, a pause of 5 minutes is made between runs without additional load.
This is followed by the performance recovery phase, when a five-minute pause is made between the scenarios to practice disk cleanup.
The package is testing several applications, I chose Adobe Photoshop (heavy script).
I give four graphs: average access time, read speed, write speed, total disk speed.
You can clearly see how the recording speed and access time are restored as the disk is “resting”.
Final thoughts
You can not expect miracles while reducing the cost of the device and simplifying its circuit. Kingston UV300 is, first of all, a step towards the wishes of customers to see more affordable Kingston SSD drives of a larger volume. At the same time, the speed characteristics have not undergone significant changes, and reliability is still confirmed by a three-year warranty.
Information on the price of the device on store shelves in Russia is currently not available.
Thanks for watching , stay with Kingston at Geektimes.ru!