Kingston KC3000 Reviews - Are PCIe 4.0 SSDs worth it?

This Kingston KC3000 1TB SSD was provided by Kingston as a review sample.

A quick review taking a look at the Kingston KC3000 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD and whether choosing a PCIe 4.0 offers tangible benefits to end users.

0:00 Introduction and unboxing
2:41 Test system and cloning
4:12 Windows 10 Boot Time
4:50 CrystalDiskMark Synthetic Test
5:58 Final Fantasy XIV Benchmark
6:41 Forza Horizon 5 Loading Test
7:23 Conclusion is PCIe 4.0 worth it, DirectStorage and the Future

[lehelzelenka]

Crazy how things change in the shortest time. Right now we have the first PC title with direct storage and the game loads in 1 second from the main menu! Also the price has dropped to 100€ for the KC3000. I bought one, slapped on a generic passive cooler and running it on a PCI Gen3 mobo it does not exceed 35°C. Of course the speeds are around 3000 so it's basically running at half speed since the gen3 platform I'm using!

[paolocoletti]

many thnaks for the shake down. As an FYI for others;
2023 Feb_Kingstyon KC3000 1TB are now sub 80GBP which is pretty amazing drop over the time you reviewed. The KING in value atm comparable for speeds to like for like competitors such as: Samsung 980 PRO 110GBP, WD Black SN850x 106GBP., Crucial P5 87GBP (as smidge slower r/w)....so blooming well done Kingston for this well priced and performing Nvme M.2
As a new install I achieved benchmark /CrystalDiskmark ratings 3-5% above the 7000 read/write figures quoted by Kingston. Not that one can tell in the real world but just nice to know.
ALSO
Don't dispose of the blister packaging (which is a truly awful way to wrap these btw) as apparently it has a free cloning software licence contained within (not that I can 100% confirm tho as I tossed mine before I found this out, so you need to verify yourself)

[adamgrant]

I just ordered this SSD after watching your review thanks.

[jaworq]

34 seconds boot time? Hmm... I have such times on my 2, 5" SATA SSD which has read and write ~500 MB/s

[canberranowidowmaker]

I was just about to place an order for a Kingston 2TB KC3000 a minute ago, then as soon as I watched this video, specially for the comparison on the win10 booting and games loading, I immediately cancelled my order... My Kingston SNVS 500GB is working well and I don't need the 0.1sec advantage...

[redoctober]

Thanks millions! I use my laptop mostly for productivity work like using cloud data, MS Offices, Mail, web surfing including YouTube etc. Then, I guesstimate PCIe Gen 3.0 is good enough. What do you think?

[ilhanbayramoglu]

I have gigabyte B550 Gaming X V2 mobo and r5 5600 CPU, but my 2tb kc3000 doesn't get past 3750 mb/s in crystaldiskmark, what can be the issue? I already set both gpu and m2 slot to gen4 in bios.

[ripiosuelto]

👍👍👍 comparisons at real use are the best ways to review a product. Thanks

[johnsmith-qzbv]

im looking at this kc 3000 1tb my cpu only supports gen 3 speeds but i plan to upgrade it one day to one that supports gen 4 speeds bc my mb does support gen 4...what are your thoughts..?..

[Anthny]

Will i have a problem if i use this SSD in PCLe 5.0 ?

[mayurchinchane]

Is this good for gaming or should I buy 980 pro plus

[captaintT]

Hi thank you for the video, I need help pls If I want to put windows 10 on ssd m.2 which one do you recommend and why Kingston NV2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD 500GB with read speed of 3500 and write speed of 2700 mb/s or should I buy KC3000 with 7000 mb/s read speed ?? just for the windows.

[Phyxsius_]

On paper it looks like a big difference, but in the real world it's only a few seconds. I thought that when I put NVME instead of an ordinary SSD, it would make a big difference, but it didn't. It's a bit faster, but nothing I couldn't live without. The only thing that is really better is that there are no cables, so the PC looks neater

[ivo]

is it worth go for Fury instead of this?

[wickedankit]

Thanks for the excellent video. A normal user will only see a difference when upgrading from HDD. I have PCIE 3 SSD and I don't see much of a difference in game loading times.

[thedude-]

Would be cool to see a test with dcs world. I'm using a HDD and it takes about 7 to 10 minutes to get into a mp server I'm building a new PC similar to yours r7 5800x aorus x570 elite with 2 nvme drives the shared m.2 is going to be my boot drive the pcie 4.0 is going to have games guess which ones I bought 😂 Samsung 980 for boot drive kc3000 for games. Thanks for the info

[RnRforyou]

The other videos out there of the KC3000 are getting less than advertised speeds I'm getting over 7200mb/s reads 7000mb/s writes must just be silicon lottery

[j.d.]

Oh yeah they finally added proper multiplayer modes for FH5!

[henryng]

8:14 "aren't" huge benefits. Fyi: It was difficult to listen to because of the accent.

[ltshazaam]

This video is irrelevant. You're comparing 2 different drives. That's it. You're not comparing Gen3 to Gen4. You should do a comparison with the same SSD in gen3 and gen4 configuration to answer the question: " Are PCIe 4.0 SSDs worth it?"