Kingston Digital Releases New Entry-level Data Center SSD

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of
Kingston
Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory
products, today announced Data Center 400 (DC400) SSD, the latest
solid-state drive to its family of enterprise
solutions. DC400 SSD is an entry-level enterprise drive designed for
server use in data centers especially for customers who deploy a
rip-and-replace strategy. It is ideal for read-intensive applications
such as boot, web servers and lower data rate operational databases and
analytics - especially in data center mixed workload environments where
endurance and reliability are important.
DC400 SSD offers superior quality of service for data center customers
whose workload environment calls for sustained IOPS and consistent low
latency. 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 consistently low data access times under
steady-state workloads. Additionally, DC400 SSD features
enterprise-class reliability with end-to-end data path protection and
firmware-implemented power-loss protection ("pFAIL").
"Kingston is proud to offer our next generation entry-level enterprise
SATA SSD to our data center and corporate customers looking for
consistent application performance, stringent quality of service
requirements and all-around reliability," said Ariel Perez, SSD business
manager, 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."
DC400 SSD is available in 400GB, 480GB, 800GB, 960GB, 1.6TB and 1.8TB
capacities2. The 400GB, 800GB and 1.6TB capacities are performance
optimized with greater IOPs for faster application performance and
reduced storage latency. The 1.8TB capacity read-intensive optimized
model is factory-tuned for read-intensive workloads.
To further help companies and organizations out, Kingston offers
industry-leading sales support through its Ask
an Expert program. It also offers the Kingston
SSD Manager, a free, downloadable toolbox to monitor drive health,
status and disk usage.
Kingston will show off its entire enterprise
SSD offerings including the new DC400 SSD during VMworld
2016 at booth #555. It will also demo the forthcoming EP2500 PCIe
U.2 SSD, the world's fastest 2.5" SSD. Customers at the show can also

see EP1000 M.2 AIC PCIe NVMe SSD which consists of up to four 1TB M.2
PCIe SSDs in NVMe mode mounted on a single card.
DC400 is backed by a limited five-year warranty1 and free
technical support and legendary Kingston reliability. For more
information, visit www.kingston.com.
DC400 SSD Features & Specifications:
Form factor: 2.5"
Interface: SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s) - with backwards compatibility
to SATA Rev. 2.0 (3Gb/s)
Capacities2: 400GB, 480GB, 800GB,
960GB, 1.6TB, 1.8TB
Sequential Read/Write:
400GB - up to 555/535MB/s
480GB - up to 555/535MB/s
800GB - up to 555/530MB/s
960GB - up to 555/520MB/s
1600GB - up to 555/510MB/s
1800GB - up to 555/500MB/s
Maximum Random 4k Read/Write:
400GB - up to 99,000/90,000 IOPS
480GB - up to 99,000/90,000 IOPS
800GB - up to 99,000/89,000 IOPS
960GB - up to 99,000/88,000 IOPS
1600GB - up to 100,000/88,000 IOPS
1800GB - up to 99,000/86,000 IOPS
Steady-State 4k Read/Write:

400GB - up to 85,000/35,000 IOPS

480GB - up to 85,000/11,000 IOPS
800GB - up to 78,000/32,000 IOPS
960GB - up to 78,000/11,000 IOPS
1600GB - up to 78,000/32,000 IOPS
1800GB - up to 67,000/18,000 IOPS
Quality of Service (Latency)5 6:
Read/Write: <400?s / <4ms (99.9%)
Hot-Plug Capable
Static and Dynamic Wear Leveling
Enterprise SMART Tools: reliability tracking, usage statistics,
life remaining, wear leveling, temperature
Endurance:
480GB: 257TB3 (0.30 DWPD)4
960GB: 564TB3 (0.32 DWPD)4
400GB: 422TB3 (0.57 DWPD)4
800GB: 860TB3 (0.58 DWPD)4
1600GB: 1678TB3 (0.57 DWPD)4
1800GB: 1432TB3 (0.43 DWPD)4
Power Consumption:
Idle: 1.56W
Average: 1.6W
Max Read: 1.8W
Max Write: 4.86W
Storage temperature: -40?C ~ 85?C
Operating temperature: 0?C ~ 70?C

Dimensions: 69.9mm x 100mm x 7.0mm

Weight: 92.34g
Vibration operating: 2.17G Peak (7-800Hz)
Vibration non-operating: 20G Peak (10-2000Hz)
MTBF: 2 million hours
Warranty/support: Limited 5-year warranty with free technical
support1
1 Limited warranty based on 5 years or SSD "Life Remaining"
which can be found using the Kingston SSD Manager
(kingston.com/SSDManager). A new, unused product will show a wear
indicator value of one hundred (100), whereas a product that has reached
its endurance limit of program erase cycles will show a wear indicator
value of one (1). See kingston.com/wa for details.
2 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 less than what is
listed on the products. For more information, go to Kingston's Flash
memory Guide at kingston.com/flashguide.
3 Total Bytes
Written (TBW) is derived from the JEDEC Enterprise Workload (JESD219A).
4
Drives Writes Per Day (DWPD)
5 Workload based on
FIO, Random 4KB QD=1 workload, measured as the time taken for 99.9
percentile of commands to finish the round-trip from host to drive and

to host.
6 Measurement taken once the workload has
reached steady state but including all background activities required
for normal operation and data reliability.
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About Kingston Digital, Inc.
Kingston Digital, Inc. ("KDI") is the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston
Technology Company, Inc., the world's largest independent manufacturer
of memory products. Established in 2008, KDI is headquartered in
Fountain Valley, California, USA. For more information, please visit www.kingston.com
or call 800-337-8410
Editor's Note: For additional information, evaluation units or
executive interviews, please contact David Leong, Kingston Technology
Company, Inc. 17600 Newhope Street, Fountain Valley, CA USA 92708,

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