CONCLUSION

   The moment Kingston reached out to inform me about their upcoming KC2500 line I immediately suspected that it was just an upgrade of the popular KC2000 line (its name kind of gave that up). Well as you can see from our charts, I was right on the spot and so even though the KC2500 1TB model surpasses the KC2000 1TB model in most tests it does so by a relatively small margin. Of course, this was what Kingston was after so even though the KC2500 line doesn’t represent a significant enough upgrade for KC2000 owners its performance levels should make it a good choice for people looking to upgrade their systems. Also just like with the KC2000 1TB we did encounter some thermal throttling during our SNIA tests but still results were very good.

   Kingston released the KC2500 line of PCIe Gen 3 x4 M.2 NVMe SSDs 18 days ago and so today the 1TB variant which I had the opportunity to test today retails for USD249.67 inside the USA (Newegg) and for 239.94Euros inside the EU (Amazon.de) meaning roughly 20% more expensive compared to the KC2000 1TB model at launch. This of course is a drawback but luckily the KC2500 line seems to surpass almost equally priced models (looking at you 970 EVO) in performance. At the end of the day the KC2500 is a reasonable upgrade over an already fast model and since it delivers everywhere, I was hoping it would it certainly deserves our Golden Award.

PROS

- Near Excellent Performance (Up To 3500MB/s Read & 2900MB/s Write)
- Sustained Performance Levels (SNIA Tests)
- 5 Years Warranty
- Kingston SSD Manager Software

CONS

- Thermal Throttling (During Our SNIA Tests)
- Price (For Some)