Kingston is announcing the KC300 SSD, the newest addition to its SSDNow family designed for client users in the enterprise, enthusiasts and mobile users who require maximum performance and energy efficiency. The KC300 replaces the Kingston V+200 and KC100 SSDs that we have reviewed. It also provides advanced power management via an LSI SandForce SF-2281 controller and features enterprise-grade SMART attributes which enable administrators to monitor drive wear and how much life the SSD still has left as well as write amplification and total bytes written. In addition, to extend the KC300’s life, Kingston has implemented Data Integrity Protection featuring DuraWrite technology which decreases the quantity of writes. Further, RAISE trims down the number of uncorrectable errors in the drive beyond the ECC rate.
Kingston is announcing the KC300 SSD, the newest addition to its SSDNow family designed for client users in the enterprise, enthusiasts and mobile users who require maximum performance and energy efficiency. The KC300 replaces the Kingston V+200 and KC100 SSDs that we have reviewed. It also provides advanced power management via an LSI SandForce SF-2281 controller and features enterprise-grade SMART attributes which enable administrators to monitor drive wear and how much life the SSD still has left as well as write amplification and total bytes written. In addition, to extend the KC300’s life, Kingston has implemented Data Integrity Protection featuring DuraWrite technology which decreases the quantity of writes. Further, RAISE trims down the number of uncorrectable errors in the drive beyond the ECC rate.
Kingston KC300 SSD Specifications
- Form factor: 2.5", 7mm height
- Interface: SATA 6Gb/s
- Capacities: 60GB, 120GB, 180GB, 240GB, 480GB
- Controller: SandForce-SF2281
- Sequential Reads: 525MB/s
- Sequential Writes: 500MB/s
- Maximum Random 4k Read/Write:
- 60GB: 84,000/ 64,000 IOPS
- 120GB: 84,000/ 64,000 IOPS
- 180GB: 84,000/ 64,000 IOPS
- 240GB: 84,000/ 52,000 IOPS
- 480GB: 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: 69.8mm x 100.1mm x 7.0mm
- Weight: 480GB: 92.3g, Other capacities: 86.0g
- Vibration operating: 2.17G Peak (7–800Hz)
- Vibration non-operating: 20G Peak (10–2000Hz)
- MTBF: 1 million hours
- Three-year Warranty
- Total Bytes Written (TBW): 60GB: 47TB, 120GB: 94TB, 180GB: 141TB, 240GB: 188TB, 480GB: 375TB
Availability
The Kingston KC300 is available stand-alone or as an upgrade kit containing cloning software and other accessories for a desktop and/or notebook system. The drive includes a three-year warranty.
