Late last year we took a look at Kingston’s XS2000 portable solid state drive. It brought the power of the USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 20 Gbps interface and combined it with the small form factor or a portable solid state drive. While that drive is one of the fastest drives out there most people are not running a system or have a laptop with a USB 3.2 gen 2×2 connection. Well for those people Kingston has the XS1000 which is a USB 3.2 gen 2 drive and ships with USB-C to USB-A cable for those who don’t have access to a Type-C port. The drive has rated speeds of 1050 MB/s read and 1000 MB/s write so let’s take a look and see what this drive can do!
Special thanks to Kingston for providing us with the XS1000 Portable Solid State Drive to review!
Specifications
Packaging
The XS1000 comes in Kingston’s typical retail packaging. On the front we have a picture of the drive and it lets us know the capacity, which in our case is 2TB. Kingston also offers the drive in a 1TB capacity.
Flipping the box over to the back we have some information on the drive.
Getting everything out of the box we have the XS1000 drive, and a USB-C to USB-A cable. No rubber sleeve like we had with the XS2000 drive.
