Kingston debuts entry-level enterprise SSD

Source: Kingston.

Kingston, the memory products provider, has announced Data Center 400 (DC400) SSD, the latest solid-state drive in its range of enterprise solutions. The entry-level 2.5" enterprise drive is designed for server use in data centres, especially for customers who deploy a rip-and-replace strategy.

Kingston says it is ideal for read-intensive applications such as boot, Web servers and databases and analytics with lower data rates – especially in mixed workload environments where sustained IOPS and consistent low latency are important.

An expanded on-board DRAM acceleration cache enables high, sustained IOPS to increase performance over a wide range of read/write workloads. Standard as well as user-adjustable over-provisioning improves random IOPS performance and endurance while enterprise firmware improves latency and delivers low data access times under steady-state workloads. Additionally, the DC400 SSD features end-to-end data path protection and firmware-implemented power-loss protection, pFAIL.

Said Nathan Su, Flash Memory Sales Director, APAC Region, Kingston: “DC400 SSD’s combination of high IOPS, low latency and advanced data protection gives server IT managers and decision makers the perfect front-loading server storage option that they can deploy with confidence.”

The DC400 SSD is available in 400GB, 480GB, 800GB, 960GB, 1.6TB and 1.8TB capacities*. The 400GB, 800GB and 1.6TB capacities are performance optimised with greater IOPs for faster application performance and reduced storage latency. The 1.8TB capacity read-intensive optimised model is factory-tuned for read-intensive workloads.

The DC400 is backed by a limited five-year warranty** and free technical support. Kingston offers sales support through its Ask an Expert programme. It also offers the Kingston SSD Manager, a free, downloadable toolbox to monitor drive health, status and disk usage.

*Some of the listed capacity on a flash storage device is used for formatting and other functions and thus is not available for data storage. As such, the actual available capacity for data storage is lower than what is listed on the products. For more information, go to Kingston’s Flash Memory Guide at kingston.com/flashguide.

**Limited warranty based on five years or SSD “life remaining” which can be determined using the Kingston SSD Manager. A new, unused product will show a wear indicator value of 100, whereas a product that has reached its endurance limit of program erase cycles will show a wear indicator value of 1. See kingston.com/wa for details

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