KC is Kingston's state-of-the-art line of solid state drives, featuring fast and compact M.2 drives. Most KC models support high-speed SLC caching, demonstrate impressive read / write speeds and boast the use of Toshiba's 96-layer durable flash memory.


However, the same can be said about dozens of other M.2 SSDs, so in the case of Kingston, the final price plays a decisive role. For example, KC2500 and KC2000 drives in east european retail can be bought even cheaper than popular low-cost SATA SSDs a la Crucial MX500 and Patriot Burst. This difference in price is most noticeable in the case of drives with a volume of 128, 256 and 512 GB. Then the price difference returns to normal.

All this tells us that Kingston has an interesting formula for success, which combines an affordable price, high operating speeds and modest dimensions of the memory module itself. Thanks to it, the conditional KC2500 or KC2000 will be an equally successful solution for a powerful stationary PC, a working laptop, and a quiet and small-sized Cube Case system.

At the same time, not all KC drives are entry-level. So, in the fall of 2021, Kingston KC3000 memory modules were presented, which use the same M.2 interface for connection, however, they choose the PCI-E bus of the fourth rather than the third version to communicate with the motherboard. Thanks to this engineering solution, the new KC drives can write data at impressive speeds up to 3900 MB / s. And their read speed can reach 7000 Mbps! The IOPS indicators, which indicate the ability of the drive to work with data arrays, for the new KC models are also several times higher than the standard temperature in the ward.