Kingston Dual Portable SSD Unboxing｜Dual Interface Mobile Solid State Drive Speed and Performance Measurements

Pocket-sized and weighing only 13 grams, the Kingston Dual Portable Solid-State Drive features dual USB Type-C and Type-A connectivity, 10 Gbps (USB 3.2 Gen2 x1) file transfer bandwidth, SSD-like performance and a miniature design like a USB flash drive. With the performance of a solid state drive and the miniature design of a USB flash drive, it delivers excellent performance in terms of size, performance, and versatility, and is backed by a five-year warranty.

Kingston Dual Portable Solid-State Drive Dual Interface ActionSSD specifications:

Interface: USB Type-C and Type-A 10 Gbps (USB 3.2 Gen2 x1)
Weight: 13 g
Dimensions: 71.8 (L) x 21.1 (W) x 8.6 (H) mm
Continuous read speed: 1050 MB/s
Continuous Write Speed: 950 MB/s
Warranty: 5-year limited warranty

Kingston Dual Portable SSD Unboxing｜Dual Interface Design and Visualization

Kingston's Dual Portable Solid-State Drive offers simultaneous capacity options of 512 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB and is backed by a five-year limited product warranty.

Using USB Type-C and Type-A dual connectors, it offers 10 Gbps (USB 3.2 Gen2 x1) transfer bandwidth specification, with official continuous read and write speeds of up to 1050 MB/s and 950 MB/s, and delivers the performance of a Solid-State Drive ("SSD") in the size of a USB flash drive. Solid-State Drive (SSD) performance in the size of a USB flash drive.

Kingston Dual Portable Solid-State Drive 1TB capacity version.

△ Support the available systems.

△ The dimensions are very lightweight.

 

The Kingston Dual Interface Mobile SSD measures 71.8 x 21.1 x 8.6 mm and features a durable metal casing in Kingston's signature red color for excellent carrying durability in a compact and durable metal design, but the USB Type-A and Type-C covers are still plastic.

Overall slim design, both aesthetics and practicality, placed next to the designated pocket card No. 025 "Risk Dice" for reference and comparison, and the weight of the overall part of only 13 g, as much as possible to reduce the burden of life.

△ Dimensions are 71.8 x 21.1 x 8.6 mm.

△ The red part is made of metal.

△ Actual size comparison.

△ The weight is 13 g.

 

The Kingston Dual Portable Solid-State Drive utilizes USB Type-A and Type-C connectors, making it easy to transfer files between laptops, desktops, mobile devices, etc., and can be used to transfer files to both new and old devices, and does not require any cables, maximizing compatibility and convenience. The most significant increase in the compatibility and convenience of use.

△ Dual connector interface.

△ USB Type-A port.

△ USB Type-C port.

△ Devices such as cell phones can be used with it.

 

Kingston Dual Portable SSD Speed Test｜Read and Write Performance and Measured Performance

First of all, through CrystalDiskInfo The software examines the basic information of the SSD and supports features such as S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology), TRIM, NCQ, and GPL, and the version of firmware tested by the author was: SFV20100.

△The capacity labeled by the storage brand is usually decimalized, but systems such as Win11 use a binary capacity display, so after formatting and converting to a different bit system, and after subtracting the space required for the firmware inside the hard drive, the actual capacity that can be used in the computer is 953 GB.

△ On a cell phone, it is almost 1 TB.

 

Use with empty disk CrystalDiskMark The software was used to test the read and write performance of the SSD. The test file size was set to 1GiB in NVMe SSD configuration mode, and the sequential read and write speeds measured in the default profile were 989 MB/s and 958 MB/s. The software was also used to test the read and write performance of the SSD, which was set to 1GiB.

The Q8T1 test result in the first column represents a thread with eight queue depths, which means that there are eight 1MB-sized accesses in the worklist waiting to be accessed. This corresponds to a real situation, such as reading or writing eight 1MB files from or to a hard disk at the same time, which is generally less likely to be done in general.

The random read/write performance of the RND4K Q32T16 item is 216 MB/s and 294 MB/s by default.

The RND4K Q32T16 operates with 16 queue depths out of 32 threads, and the file types are random access 4 KB size files written or read into the SSD.

△ CrystalDiskMark Settings: NVMe SSD / Profile: Default, Sequential Read/Write and Random Read/Write test results.

 

Kingston Dual Portable SSD Evaluation Summary｜Pros, Cons & Buying Advice

The unboxing of Kingston Dual Portable Solid-State Drive, in the author's eyes, is a comprehensive product that has the advantages of USB flash drive's compactness and ease of storage, but with the high-speed read/write performance of Solid-State Drive (SSD). With USB Type-C and Type-A dual connectors, it can be connected to any device to transfer files, and at the same time, it combines "size advantage, transfer performance, and device compatibility", which is a very convenient product for the author who often needs to transfer files between multiple devices.

 

But with Kingston's dual-interface mobile SSDs taking transfer bandwidth performance to the 10 Gbps (1000 MB/s) level, the people who will really get the most out of this product are the multimedia professionals who will be transferring video or photo files, which can be tens of gigabytes for a single project.

As for what kind of Solution, Host, and Granule are used in this product, I didn't check it out, because I think it's meaningless to blindly pursue the use of granules in a mobile hard disk or USB flash drive that is used for "temporary file storage".