Kingston SM2280S3 120GB M.2 SATA SSD Review

ATTO & AS-SSD Benchmarks

ATTO v2.47

ATTO is one of the oldest drive benchmarks still being used today and is still very relevant in the SSD world. ATTO measures transfers across a specific volume length. It measures raw transfer rates for both reads and writes and places the data into graphs that can be very easily interpreted. The test was run with the default runs of 0.5KB through 8192KB transfer sizes with the total length being 256MB.

ATTO – Intel Z97 Platform:

Benchmark Results: As always, this benchmark represents the pinnacle of performance for most SSD drives and for the Kingston SM2280S3 drive it’s no exception. We see reads as high as 556MB/s and writes hitting 527MB/s which does exceed the rated specifications for the drive just a bit.

AS-SSD (1.7.4739.38088) Benchmark – Intel Z97 Platform:

We have been running the AS-SSD Benchmark app for some time now and found that it gives a broad result set. The programmer has worked very hard on this software and continues to make updates often so if you use it, show him some love and send him a donation. There are now three tests that are found within the tool and we’ll show the results from two of them.

Benchmark Results: As usual on this benchmark, we see writes take a performance hit but not too terrible and 4k scores look very good so not a bad showing for the Phison powered Kingston SM2280 M.2 drive.

Benchmark Results: It’s kind of odd to see the write graph line decline as it moves towards 100% compressible data (usually we see flat or an incline) but that’s what we see here and this occurred every time we ran this particular benchmark.