Kingston Releases The Enterpise-ready SSDNow E100 SSD

Kingston Digital, Inc. today announced the SSDNow E100 SSD, the company?s new enterprise-class solid state drive (SSD).

Kingston says the new Kingston E100 SSD achieves up to 10X improvements in endurance and reliability over client SSDs on existing hardware, while drastically reducing the physical footprint as significantly fewer SSDs are needed to handle the tasks of many traditional hard-disk drives (HDD).

The SSDNow E100 SSD is shipping immediately and is available in 100GB, 200GB and 400GB capacities. It is backed by a three-year warranty and free technical support.

Kingston E100 SSD Features and Specifications:

- Performance: higher IOPS for multi-user environments
- Endurance: Data Integrity Protection featuring DuraClass Technology
- Dependable: RAISE for advanced data reliability
- Secure: self-encrypting drive
- Durable: DuraWrite optimizes writes to extend endurance
- Warranty/support: three-year warranty with free technical support
- Form factor: 2.5"
- Interface: SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s), SATA Rev. 2.0 (3Gb/s), SATA Rev. 1.0 (1.5Gb/s)
- Capacities: 100GB, 200GB, 400GB

- Sequential Reads:
o SATA Rev. 3.0 ? 100GB, 200GB, & 400GB ? up to 535MB/s
o SATA Rev. 2.0 ? 100GB, 200GB, & 400GB ? up to 270MB/s

- Sequential Writes:
o SATA Rev. 3.0 ? 100GB, 200GB, & 400GB ? up to 500MB/s
o SATA Rev. 2.0 ? 100GB & 200GB - 255MB/s, 400GB ? up to 260MB/s

- Sustained Random 4k Read/Write:
o 100GB ? 47,000/81,000 IOPS
o 200GB ? 59,000/72,000 IOPS
o 400GB ? 52,000/37,000 IOPS
- Maximum Random 4k Read/Write:
o 100GB - 55,000/83,000 IOPS
o 200GB - 59,000/73,000 IOPS
o 400GB - 52,000/37,000 IOPS

- Enterprise SMART Tools: Reliability Tracking, Usage Statistics, Life Remaining, Wear Leveling, Temperature, Drive Life Protection

- Power Consumption:

o 100GB - 0.5W (TYP) Idle / 1.2W (TYP) Read / 2.7W (TYP) Write
o 200GB - 0.5W (TYP) Idle / 1.2W (TYP) Read / 3.1W (TYP) Write
o 400GB - 0.5W (TYP) Idle / 1.2W (TYP) Read / 5.0W (TYP) Write

- Dimensions: 69.9mm x 100mm x 7mm
- Weight: 96.6 grams
- Storage temperature: -40 ~ 85°C
- Operating temperature: 0 ~ 70°C
- TRIM Not supported
- MTBF: 10,000,000 Hrs

- Total Bytes Written (TBW):
o 100 GB - 428 TB
o 200 GB - 857 TB
o 400 GB - 1714 TB