Kingston is making a renewed effort within the enterprise storage market this 12 months, beginning with the launch of their DC500 household of enterprise SATA SSDs. The new DC500R and DC500M product strains are designed for read-intensive and combined workloads respectively, with endurance scores of 0.5 and 1.Three drive writes per day, respectively.
The goal marketplace for the DC500 household is second-tier cloud service suppliers and system integrators. The greatest cloud firms (Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and so forth.) have largely moved over to NVMe SSDs, however among the many smaller datacenter gamers there may be nonetheless a big marketplace for SATA drives. These firms are already Kingston’s greatest prospects for DRAM, so Kingston already has a foot within the door.
The DC500 household continues Kingston’s shut relationship with Phison, incorporating the brand new Phison S12 SATA SSD controller. This gives all the same old options anticipated from an enterprise drive, together with end-to-end information path safety, Phison’s third-generation LDPC error correction, and energy loss safety. The NAND flash Kingston is utilizing this time is Intel’s 64-layer 3D TLC, rated for 5000 Program/Erase cycles. Kingston most frequently makes use of Toshiba flash, particularly given their funding in Toshiba Memory Corporation, however in the end Kingston remains to be an impartial purchaser of reminiscence, and in the intervening time they take into account Intel to be a greater possibility for his or her enterprise SSDs.
Performance scores are typical for SATA drives with TLC NAND. Both the DC500R and DC500M will saturate the SATA hyperlink for sequential transfers or random reads. The DC500R’s steady-state random write efficiency is rated for 12k-28okay IOPS relying on capability, whereas the DC500M with considerably extra overprovisioning can maintain 58k-75okay random write IOPS. Capacities for each tiers of DC500 will probably be 480GB as much as 3.84TB. The DC500R is transport beginning right now, whereas the DC500M will begin transport subsequent week, aside from the most important 3.84TB capability that may arrive later in Q2.
