Kingston today announced the latest addition to its SSDNow family, the KC300 solid-state drive, which is based on an LSI SandForce second-generation SF-2281 processor.
Kingston is offering the KC300 as a replacment for the Kingston V+200 and KC100 SSDs. The drive features enterprise-grade SMART attributes, allowing IT departments to monitor wear range data, SSD life left, write amplification and total bytes written. KC300 comes equipped with Data Integrity Protection featuring DuraWrite technology to extend the life of the SSD by reducing the number of Flash writes via an intelligent compression engine. RAISE reduces the number of uncorrectable errors in the drive, over and above standard error code correction.
KC300 is available as a stand-alone drive or as an upgrade kit containing cloning software and other accessories for a desktop and/or notebook system. It is backed by a three-year warranty.
Kingston SSDNow KC300 Features & Specifications:
- Form factor: 2.5", 7mm height
- Advanced Power Management: extends notebook battery life during typical computing session
- Endurance: Data Integrity Protection featuring DuraClass technology
- Durable: DuraWrite intelligent compression engine extends the life of the SSD
- Dependable: RAISE reduces the number of uncorrectable errors on the drive
- Three-year warranty, free technical support
- Interface: SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s) - with backwards compatibility to SATA Rev. 2.0
- Capacities: 60 GB, 120 GB, 180 GB, 240 GB, 480 GB
- Controller: SandForce-SF2281
- Sequential Reads: SATA Rev. 3.0 525 MB/s
- Sequential Writes: SATA Rev. 3.0 500 MB/s
- Maximum Random 4k Read/Write:
o 60 GB: 84,000/ 64,000 IOPS
o 120 GB: 84,000/ 64,000 IOPS
o 180 GB: 84,000/ 64,000 IOPS
o 240 GB: 84,000/ 52,000 IOPS
o 480 GB: 73,000/ 32,000 IOPS
- PCMARK Vantage HDD Suite Score: 57,000
- Power Consumption: 0.6 W (MAX) Idle / 1.4 W (MAX) Read / 2.9 W (MAX) Write
- Storage temperatures: -40°C ~ 85°C
- Operating temperatures: 0°C ~ 70°C
- Dimensions: 69.8 mm x 100.1 mm x 7.0 mm
- Weight: 60 GB, 120 GB, 180 GB, 240 GB - 86.0g; 480 GB: 92.3g
- Vibration operating: 2.17G Peak (7-800Hz)
- Vibration non-operating: 20G Peak (10-2000Hz)
- Life expectancy: 1 million hours MTBF
- Total Bytes Written (TBW):
o 60 GB: 47 TB
o 120 GB: 94 TB
o 180 GB: 141 TB
o 240 GB: 188 TB
o 480 GB: 375 TB