Kingston Launches New DC500 Series SSDs

Today Kingston Technology Company, Inc. announced the launch of its data center DC500R enterprise SSD (DC500R review). The SSD is optimized for read-intensive applications and the first to implement the company’s strict QoS requirements to ensure predictable random I/O performance as well as predictable low latencies over a wide range of read and write workloads. The company is also announcing that its mixed-use workload drive, the DC500M will begin shipping next week.

The enterprise SSD launched today, the DC500R, is an ideal choice for read-intensive applications such as boot up, web servers, virtual desktop infrastructure, operational databases, and real-time analytics. Kingston’s QoS is said to provide consistent performance and latency. The drive also comes with endurance of half a drive write per day and capacities up to 3.84TB in a 2.5” form factor. Next week the company is launching the DC500M that is ideal for mixed-use workloads such as the high-volume rack-mount server market for internal drive bay upgrades, hyperscale data center servers and Cloud service providers requiring low-cost, high-performance storage subsystems. The DC500M offers up to 1.3 DWPD and will come in a 3.84TB model in the second quarter of this year.

Kingston DC500 Key features:

• Model: DC500R | DC500M
• Form Factor: 2.5 Inch
• Interface: SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s) 
• Capacities: 480GB, 960GB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB (DC500M 3.84TB capacity available in later Q2)
• NAND: 3D TLC
• Self-Encrypting Drive (SED): AES 256-bit Encryption
• Sequential Read/Write: 
  • DC500R:
    • 480GB – 555MBs/500MBs 
    • 960GB – 555MBs/525MBs
    • 1.92TB – 555MBs/525MBs 
    • 3.84TB – 555MBs/520MBs
  • DC500M:
    • 480GB – 555MBs/520MBs 
    • 960GB – 555MBs/520MBs
    • 1.92TB – 555MBs/520MBs 
    • 3.84TB – 555MBs/520MBs
• Steady-State 4k Read/Write: 
  • DC500R:
    • 480GB – 98,000/12,000 IOPS 
    • 960GB – 98,000/20,000 IOPS
    • 1.92TB – 98,000/24,000 IOPS 
    • 3.84TB – 98,000/28,000 IOPS
  • DC500M:
    • 480GB – 98,000/58,000 IOPS 
    • 960GB – 98,000/70,000 IOPS
    • 1.92TB – 98,000/75,000 IOPS 
    • 3.84TB – 98,000/75,000 IOPS
• Quality of Service (Latency): TYP Read/Write: <500 µs / <2 ms
• Hot-Plug Capable
• Static and Dynamic Wear Leveling
• Enterprise SMART tools: Reliability tracking, usage statistics, life remaining,
• wear leveling, temperature
• Endurance:
  • DC500R:
    • 480GB — 438TBW (0.5 DWPD) 
    • 960GB — 876TBW (0.5 DWPD)
    • 1.92TB — 1752TBW (0.5 DWPD)
    • 3.84TB — 3504TBW (0.5 DWPD)
  • DC500M:
    • 480GB – 1139TBW (1.3 DWPD)
    • 960GB – 2278TBW (1.3 DWPD)
    • 1.92TB – 4555TBW (1.3 DWPD)
    • 3.84TB – 9110TBW (1.3 DWPD)
• Power Consumption:
  • Idle: 1.56W 
  • Average: 1.6W 
  • Max Read: 1.8W 
  • Max Write: 7.5W
• Storage temperature: -40°C ~ 85°C
• Operating temperature: 0°C ~ 70°C
• Dimensions: 69.9mm x 100mm x 7mm
• Weight: 92.34g
• Vibration operating: 2.17G Peak (7–800Hz)
• Vibration non-operating: 20G Peak (10–2000Hz)
• MTBF: 2 million hours
• Warranty/support: Limited 5-year warranty with free technical support

Kingston DC500

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