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The latest SATA SSD drive family from Kingston is the UV500 series. The drives are available in multiple form factors and all feature full disk encryption, Kingston's first 3D NAND equipped drives to support it. Which is why it sits under the company's Business banner as well as the Consumer one.

The UV500 series is available in three formats; 2.5in, M.2 2280 and mSATA. The 2.5in range consists of 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, 960GB [the drive Kingston kindly supplied for review] and the recently released flagship 1.92TB drive. The M.2 2280 range has the same capacities but tops out at 960GB while the mSATA range ends with the 480GB drive. The 2.5in model range are available as standalone drives or as part of a desktop/notebook upgrade kit.

Powering the drives is a Marvell 88SS1074, four channel controller which looks after 64-layer 3D TLC NAND. The 28nm controller provides the UV500 with AES 256-bit hardware-based encryption as well as support for TCG Opal 2.0. It also uses Marvell’s third generation error-correcting, low-density parity check [LDPC] technology and provides low power support with integrated DEVSLP [Device Sleep].

The official Sequential read/write performance figures for the 960GB drive are up to 520MB/s and 500MB/s respectively. Those read figures are the same across the range as are the write figure with the exception of the 120GB model where the write figure drops to 320MB/s.

Random 4K random read performance for the range is quoted as up to 79,000 IOPS with the 960GB drive rated as up to 45,000 IOPS for random writes. The 120GB gets a write figure of up to 18,000 IOPs, 240GB model up to 25,000 IOPs, 480GB up to 35,000 IOPS and the 1.92TB model is rated as up to 50,000 IOPS.

Endurance for the 960GB drive is quoted as Kingston as 480TB TBW and the drive is backed with a limited five-year warranty.

Physical Specifications: Usable Capacities: 960GB NAND Components: 3D TLC NAND NAND Controller: Marvell 88SS1074 Interface: Serial ATA [SATA] 6Gb/s [SATA III] Form Factor: 2.5in, 7mm Dimensions: 100.1 x 69.85 x 7mm Drive Weight: 41g

Firmware Version: 003056R6

The basic 960GB UV500 comes in a blister pack with the drives capacity clearly labelled on the front while the rear has multilingual marketing and warranty notes on it.

The UV500 is built on a standard 2.5in, 7mm format using a well-constructed metal enclosure. The enclosure uses four Pin Torx security screws which in the case of our review drive were fixed in place very tightly. Try as we might we couldn't shift them so we couldn't take our usual PCB photos.

Kingston's SSD management software goes under the name of SSD Manager. It might not be as comprehensive as some of its competitors but it does display Partitioning details, an overview of S.M.A.R.T details, SSD health and drive temperature along the bottom of the page so it's fairly straightforward to see what’s going on at a glance.

The utility also supports firmware updates and for the UV500 there is a security page where secure drive erases can be performed and the drives current TCG status can be checked.

For testing, the drives are all wiped and reset to factory settings by HDDerase V4. We try to use free or easily available programs and some real world testing so you can compare our findings against your own system. This is a good way to measure potential upgrade benefits.

Main system: Intel Core i7-7700K with 16GB of DDR4-3200 RAM, Sapphire R9 390 Nitro and an Asus Prime Z270-A motherboard.

Other drives Crucial BX100 1TB Crucial BX200 960GB Crucial M550 1TB Crucial MX200 1TB Crucial MX300 2TB Crucial MX300 Limited Edition 750GB Integral SVR-PRO 100 4TB Kingston SSDNow V310 960GB Samsung 840 EVO 1TB Samsung 850 EVO 1TB Samsung 860 EVO 4TB Samsung 860 PRO 4TB SK hynix SE3010 960GB Toshiba TR200 960GB Ultima Pro X 960GB

Software: Atto Disk Benchmark. CrystalMark 3.0.3. AS SSD. IOMeter. Futuremark PC Mark 8

All our results were achieved by running each test five times with every configuration this ensures that any glitches are removed from the results. Trim is confirmed as running by typing fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify into the command line. A response of disabledeletenotify =0 confirms TRIM is active. CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0.3.

The UV500 has decent 4K write performance at both shallow and deeper queue depths. Looking at both benchmark result screens, the Marvell 88SS1074 controller doesn't seem to have a preference for the type of data it's being asked to handle.

The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage systems performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Several options are available to customize your performance measurement including queue depth, overlapped I/O and even a comparison mode with the option to run continuously.

Use ATTO Disk Benchmark to test any manufacturers RAID controllers, storage controllers, host adapters, hard drives and SSD drives and notice that ATTO products will consistently provide the highest level of performance to your storage.

Kingston quote Sequential read/write performance figures for the 960GB drive as up to 520MB/s and 500MB/s respectively, figures we could confirm with the ATTO benchmark. The tested drive produced a read figure of 528MB/s with writes coming in at 532MB/s.

AS SSD is a great free tool designed just for benching Solid State Drives. It performs an array of sequential read and write tests, as well as random read and write tests with sequential access times over a portion of the drive. AS SSD includes a sub suite of benchmarks with various file pattern algorithms but this is difficult in trying to judge accurate performance figures.

In the more stringent AS SSD test the write score of 425 is stronger than the 407 of Samsung's 850 EVO but the roles are reversed when it comes to read performance.

IOMeter is another open source synthetic benchmarking tool which is able to simulate the various loads placed on hard drive and solid state drive technology.

We test with both random read and write 4k tests, as shown above. There are many ways to measure the IOPS performance of a Solid State Drive, so our results will sometimes differ from manufacturer’s quoted ratings. We do test all drives in exactly the same way, so the results are directly comparable.

Kingston quote 4K random performance for the 960GB drive as up to 79,000 IOS for reads and up to 45,000 IOPS for writes. Under our 4K test we couldn't match that maximum read figure, our review drive giving a score of 62,646 IOPS. However when it came to random writes, the drive went passed the official figure with a score of 49,302 IOPS.

In our throughput test, the read performance curve is pretty erratic while the write performance drops quite considerably from 500MB/s at the 2MB block size to 387MB/s at 4MB and 383MB/s at the 8MB block size before recovering to finish the test run at 503MB/s. Peak reads come at the 1MB block at 497MB/s.

Futuremark’s PCMark 8 is a very good all round system benchmark but it’s Storage Consistency Test takes it to whole new level when testing SSD drives. It runs through four phases; Preconditioning, Degradation, Steady State, Recovery and finally Clean Up. During the Degradation, Steady State and Recovery phases it runs performance tests using the 10 software programs that form the backbone of PCMark 8; Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop Heavy and Photoshop Light, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Battlefield 3 and World of Warcraft. With some 18 phases of testing, this test can take many hours to run.

Preconditioning The drive is written sequentially through up to the reported capacity with random data, write size of 256 × 512 = 131,072 bytes. This is done twice. Degradation Run writes of random size between 8 × 512 and 2048 × 512 bytes on random offsets for 10 minutes. It then runs a performance test. These two actions are then repeated 8 times and on each pass the duration of random writes is increased by 5 minutes. Steady State Run writes of random size between 8 × 512 and 2048 × 512 bytes on random offsets for final duration achieved in degradation phase. A performance test is then run. These actions are then re-run five times. Recovery The drive is idled for 5 minutes. Then a performance test is run. These actions are then repeated five times. Clean Up The drive is written through sequentially up to the reported capacity with zero data, write size of 256 × 512 = 131,072 bytes.

The drive gets hammered quite hard during some stages of the Degradation and Steady State phases of the test but it recovers from the ordeal very well indeed.

PCMark 8’s Consistency test provides a huge amount of performance data, so here we’ve looked a little closer at how the 960GB Kingston UV500 performs in each of the benchmarks test suites.

Adobe Creative Cloud

The drive doesn't show much stability throughout the first two parts of the test with some very low bandwidth figures and the corresponding high latency figures. However, the performance improves through the recovery phases albeit not very smoothly.

Microsoft Office

It's the Word test trace in the MS Office suite of tests that causes the most problems for the drive, with the bandwidth falling off a cliff in the fifth Degradation run. In all three traces the drive recovers well.

Casual Gaming

During both game traces, the drive doesn't handle the Degradation and Steady State phases very well at all. However the recovery phases for both is very good.

Just like the Consistency test, PCMark 8’s Standard Storage test also saves a large amount of performance data. The default test runs through the test suite of 10 applications three times. Here we show the total bandwidth performance for each of the individual test suites for the third and final benchmark run.

The UV500 performs pretty well in the PCMark 8 Standard Storage test, particularly the two Adobe Photoshop tests with the best bandwidth performance coming in the Adobe Paintshop Heavy test.

For the long term performance stability test, we set the drive up to run a 20-minute 4K random test with a 30% write, 70% read split, at a Queue Depth of 256 over the entire disk. The 960GB UV500 averaged 31,870 IOPS for the test with a performance stability of 68.45%, which for this class of drive is pretty good.

To test 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 256GB Samsung SSD850 PRO.

100GB data file. 60GB iso image. 60GB Steam folder – 29,521 files. 50GB File folder – 28,523 files. 12GB Movie folder – 24 files [mix of Blu-ray and 4K files]. 10GB Photo folder – 621 files [mix of .png, raw and .jpeg images]. 10GB Audio folder – 1,483 files [mix of mp3 and .flac files]. 5GB [1.5bn pixel] photo.

The only real problems in our real life file transfer tests came when the drive had to deal with writing the small bity files of the 50GB file folder. It's the only time in the tests when the performance dropped below the 100MB/s mark.

Although Kingston's UV500 can be found in both the company's Business and Consumer product line-ups, its major selling point; hardware based 256-bit data encryption and TCG Opal 2.0 support will really only appeal to the business end of the market. Most consumers wouldn't give those features a second glance.

At the heart of the drive is Marvell’s 5th generation 88SS1074 controller which looks after 64-layer 3D TLC NAND. The 88SS1074, which has been around since 2016 is a four channel controller which uses Marvell’s third generation error-correcting, low-density parity check [LDPC] technology. It also provides the 256-bit data encryption and TCG Opal 2.0 support for the drive.

The UV500 range usefully comes in three different formats; 2.5in, M.2 2280 and mSATA. The 2.5in range consists of 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, 960GB and 1.92TB capacities. The M.2 range has the same capacities but loses the flagship 1.92TB drive while the mSATA range ends with the 480GB drive.

The 2.5in models come as bare drives [like our review sample] or as part of a desktop/notebook upgrade kit. Apart from the drive these kits include; 2.5” USB enclosure, 3.5” bracket and mounting screws, SATA power and data cable, 7mm to 9.5mm adapter and a download coupon for Acronis True Image cloning software.

Performance wise, the UV500 isn't the fastest SATA drive we've seen. Kingston quote Sequential read/write figures for the 960GB drive as up to 520MB/s and 500MB/s respectively. Incidentally, that 520MB/s read figure is the same across all the range as is the write speed with the exception of the 120MB drive where the figure drops to up to 320MB/s. We confirmed those figures with the ATTO benchmark, the review drive producing reads at 528MB/s with writes coming in at 532MB/s.

The official 4K random figures for the 960GB drive are up to 79,000 IOPS reads and up to 45,000 IOPS for writes. We couldn't match the top read figure under testing, the review drive producing a read performance of 62,646 IOPS. When it came to write performance, the tested drive bettered the official maximum figure with writes coming in at 49,302 IOPS.

We found the 960GB UV500 on Scan.co.uk for £218.99 [inc VAT] HERE

Pros.

• Available in three form factors [depending on capacity].
• Price.
• Full disk encryption support.

Cons.

• Not the fastest SATA drive we've seen.

Kitguru says: For the consumer end of the market, Kingston's UV500 is a 960GB drive with a pretty competitive price tag, while for the business end of things, the drive is a low cost end to end data protected drive.