Kingston DC3000ME 15.36TB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Kingston DC3000ME 15.36TB3. Testing Methodology4. ATTO5. Sustained Sequential Read/Write Performance6. 4KB Random Read/Write Performance7. 8KB Random Read/Write Performance8. 4K Random 80/20 Mix Read/Write9. 8K Random 80/20 Mix Read/Write10. SPECworkstation 3.111. Workload Scenarios12. Performance Stability13. Temperatures14. Closing Thoughts15. View All Pages

We also tested the drive in a number of workload scenarios that it might face in real life. The IOMeter settings we used to test with are listed below, each test being run for 10 minutes:-

Database Server
Transfer Size: 8K Reads: 67% Writes: 33% Random: 100%
Boundary: 4K Outstanding IO: 128 Threads: 4

Exchange Email 4K
Transfer Size: 4K Reads: 67% Writes: 33% Random: 100%
Boundary: 4K Outstanding IO: 128 Threads: 4

Exchange Email 8K
Transfer Size: 8K Reads: 67% Writes: 33% Random: 100%
Boundary: 8K Outstanding IO: 64 Threads: 4

Exchange Email 32K
Transfer Size: 32K Reads: 67% Writes: 33% Random: 100%
Boundary: 4K Outstanding IO: 128 Threads: 4

Media Streaming
Transfer Size: 64K Reads: 98% Writes: 2% Sequential: 100%
Boundary: 4K Outstanding IO: 64 Threads: 8

Search Engine A
Transfer Size: 4K Reads: 100% Writes: 0% Random: 100%
Boundary: 4K Outstanding IO: 128 Threads: 8

Search Engine B
Transfer Size: 8K Reads: 100% Writes: 0% Random: 100%
Boundary: 4K Outstanding IO: 128 Threads: 8

Web File Server 4KB
Transfer Size: 8K Reads: 95% Writes: 5% Random: 75%
Boundary: 4K Outstanding IO: 32 Threads: 8

Web File Server 8KB
Transfer Size: 8K Reads: 95% Writes: 5% Random: 75%
Boundary: 4K Outstanding IO: 64 Threads: 8

Web File Server 64KB
Transfer Size: 64K Reads: 95% Writes 5% Random: 75%
Boundary: 4K Outstanding IO: 64 Threads: 8

Web Server Log
Transfer Size: 8K Reads: 0% Writes: 100% Random: 100%
Boundary: 4K Outstanding IO: 128 Threads: 4

Video On Demand
Transfer Size: 512K Reads: 100% Writes: 0% Random: 100%
Boundary: 4K Outstanding IO: 64 Threads: 8

As you might expect for a drive designed to handle most of these scenarios in one way or another, the DC3000ME tackles these tests very efficiently with some very strong bandwidth figures. Although we can't really compare the performance of the DC3000ME to the other data centre/enterprise drives we tested because the test platform was completely different, these test results are by far the fastest we've seen with this class of drive (e.g. the Kingston DC1500M produced a Search Engine A test result of 438,233 IOPS, the DC3000ME, 837,260 IOPS).

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