The company Kingston announced its first PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD, running on the protocol NVMe. The novelty is made in the form factor M.2 2280 and received the name Kingston KC1000. Technically, this drive is not intended for retail, as indicated by the letters "KC" in the name of the model, which, however, does not prevent the presence of such SSDs as the KC300 and KC400 on store shelves.
Interestingly, despite the Kingston HyperX Predator, which used the Marvell controller and is now gaining an increasing platform on 88SS1093 from the same developer, Kingston preferred Phison platform for the release of KC1000: Phison E7 controller (Phison PS5007-E7) is used. The flash memory array is a 15-nanometer planar MLC NAND from Toshiba. Most likely, the technical difference from the Patriot Hellfire we tested recently will be minimal.
Three variants of the volume are declared: 240, 480 and 960 GB. The linear reading speeds reach 2,700 MB / s, the records are 900-1600 MB / s (depending on the volume), the performance level is up to 290,000 IOPS on reading and 190,000 IOPS on the record. The declared resource is 300, 550 and 1000 TB of recorded data, depending on the volume of the drive. The term of the firm guarantee is 5 years.
For all three modifications of volumes, two options will be supplied: only the drive itself and the drive bundled with the adapter card for installation in the PCI-Express x4 expansion slot. In the price lists, they can be distinguished by marking SKC1000 / *** G and SKC1000 H / *** G, respectively. Related Products :
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