

Up until 2022, Dell has been doing a decent job of leading the way in this regard. There are very few manufacturers, if any, that have a flawless catalogue of devices on offer particularly in the growing laptop space. Things haven’t been plain sailing lately though but thankfully we’re here to guide you through any muddy water with our selection of the best Dell laptops. Thus, the Kingston XS1000 is suitable for everyone who is looking for a particularly compact, fast, but still inexpensive external SSD.For the past decade, Dell has produced some of the very best laptops around, from productivity wonders to creative powerhouses. Despite the low price, Kingston offers a 5-year warranty Furthermore, the XS1000 is currently the cheapest external SSD with 1 TB of storage and transfer speeds of ~1,000 MB/s at ~65 € (as of ). It offers fast transfer speeds of up to 1,050 MB/s and also shows a good performance in the benchmarks. Like the XS2000, the SSD is very compact and extremely light. Overall, Kingston offers an attractive overall package at a very reasonable price with the new XS1000. Kingston XS1000 External SSD Review: Conclusion The temperature of the Kingston XS1000 remained rather low throughout the entire test, we reached a maximum of 52 ☌ In the HD Tune, the XS1000 is only beaten by the USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 models with a very good 528.5 MB/s. In the ATTO benchmark, we achieved up to 892.659 IOPS in read and up to 921.102 IOPS in write, which again puts the external SSD in the midfield. In the benchmark score, the XS1000 lands in the midfield of the external SSDs we have tested so far with 791 points, the same applies to the copy benchmark The 4K test again shows weaknesses in reading and strengths in writing. We achieved 948.43 MB/s in sequential read and 850.93 MB/s in sequential write. The external SSD also achieved a predominantly good result in the AS SSD benchmark.

Since the XS2000 already showed similar strengths and weaknesses with very similar components, we suspect a strong influence of the installed controller While the Kingston XS1000 disappoints with 24.16 MB/s in the 4K read test, it achieves a very good result with 73.34 MB/s in the write test. While we can confirm the manufacturer’s claims in CrystalDiskMark with a read speed of 1,064.39 MB/s, we didn’t quite reach this with a write speed of 949.94 MB/s.

Kingston advertises maximum read and write speeds of up to 1,050 and 1,000 MB/s, respectively.
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Performance test of the Kingston XS1000 External SSDĪs with internal SSDs, we use the benchmarks and programs AS SSD, CrystalDiskMark, ATTO Disk and HD Tune Pro for our performance test Results of the performance test INNO3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 graphics card.ASUS ROG Strix B560-F Gaming WiFi motherboard.The included cable seems stable, but is a bit stiff Test system The external SSD leaves a high-quality impression and does not have any flaws like irregular gaps, unclean edges and the like. The workmanship of the Kingston XS1000 can convince in the test. However, it has to be mentioned here that even the XS2000 with rubber cover is far away from real outdoor or ruggedized SSDs Since the rubber cover known from the XS2000 is omitted, which covers the transitions of the housing, the protection against dust and jet water according to IP55 standard is omitted. We don’t have any information about the NAND used Kingston uses the native USB controller Silicon Motion SM2320 without DRAM cache for this, just like in the faster XS2000. The Kingston XS1000 is a compact external SSD that offers transfer speeds of up to 1,050 MB/s. Technical data of the Kingston XS1000 External SSD CapacityĮxternal SSD, USB-C to USB-A cable (0.30 m) Kingston XS1000 External SSD Review: Conclusion.Performance test of the Kingston XS1000 External SSD.Design and build of the Kingston XS1000 External SSD.Technical data of the Kingston XS1000 External SSD.
