Setup & Testing
Getting the XS2000 setup is extremely easy, just plug it into an open USB port (Type-C) in your PC or laptop. It will be recognized right off the bat. The drive is completely empty and the 1TB version of the drive has 953 GB of usable space.
For testing we will be running the XS2000 against other portable solid state drives we have on hand so you can see the difference between the drives. As a reminder Kingston lists the speeds of this drive as 2000 MB/s for both read and write. First up we have CrystalDiskMark.
As you can see we have sequential speeds of 2035.02 MB/s read and 1799.84 MB/s write. Here is how the XS2000 compares to other drives in that test.
Next we run the the AJA System test. It tests different types of video formats and gives you throughput results for the drive. Our configuration was 4K RED HD footage, 1 GB test file size, and the 8bit YUV codec.
And those results compared to other drives.
Next up is the USB Flash Benchmark, which will transfer various different file sizes to the drive and record the transfer speeds.
We have also added the AS SSD Benchmark and ATTO Disk Benchmark to our portable storage testing.
