At VMWorld today, Kingston Digital announced the SSDNow E100 SSD, a new enterprise SSD that Kingston hopes will replace existing hard disk drive deployments that have reached the limits of HDD performance. This product launch marks a play by Kingston to extend its brand recognition from the consumer SSD market into value enterprise flash storage.
At VMWorld today, Kingston Digital announced the SSDNow E100 SSD, a new enterprise SSD that Kingston hopes will replace existing hard disk drive deployments that have reached the limits of HDD performance. This product launch marks a play by Kingston to extend its brand recognition from the consumer SSD market into value enterprise flash storage.
UPDATE – Kingston SSDNow E100 Review Posted
The SSDNow E100 SSD features Kingston’s DuraClass data integrity protection, RAISE for data reliability, and DuraWrite technology for write endurance. E100’s power fail support uses Tantalum capacitors so that existing writes are committed and/or retired during power loss to prevent data loss at temperatures up to 85 degrees Celsius. Kingston offers the SSDNow E100 with a three-year warranty.
- Form factor: 2.5″
- Interface: SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s), SATA Rev. 2.0 (3Gb/s), SATA Rev. 1.0 (1.5Gb/s)
- Capacities: 100GB, 200GB, 400GB
- SandForce SF-2500 Controller
- Sequential Reads:
- SATA Rev. 3.0 — 100GB, 200GB, & 400GB – up to 535MB/s
- SATA Rev. 2.0 — 100GB, 200GB, & 400GB – up to 270MB/s
- Sequential Writes:
- SATA Rev. 3.0 — 100GB, 200GB, & 400GB – up to 500MB/s
- SATA Rev. 2.0 — 100GB & 200GB – 255MB/s, 400GB – up to 260MB/s
- Sustained Random 4k Read/Write:
- 100GB – 47,000/81,000 IOPS
- 200GB – 59,000/72,000 IOPS
- 400GB – 52,000/37,000 IOPS
- Maximum Random 4k Read/Write:
- 100GB – 55,000/83,000 IOPS
- 200GB – 59,000/73,000 IOPS
- 400GB – 52,000/37,000 IOPS
- Enterprise SMART Tools: Reliability Tracking, Usage Statistics, Life Remaining, Wear Leveling, Temperature, Drive Life Protection
- Power Consumption:
- 100GB — 0.5W (TYP) Idle / 1.2W (TYP) Read / 2.7W (TYP) Write
- 200GB — 0.5W (TYP) Idle / 1.2W (TYP) Read / 3.1W (TYP) Write
- 400GB — 0.5W (TYP) Idle / 1.2W (TYP) Read / 5.0W (TYP) Write
- Dimensions: 69.9mm x 100mm x 7mm
- Weight: 96.6 grams
- Operating temperature: 0 ~ 70°C
- TRIM: Not supported
- MTBF: 10,000,000 Hrs
- Total Bytes Written (TBW):
- 100GB – 428TB
- 200GB – 857TB
- 400GB – 1714TB
Availability
The SSDNow E100 SSD is shipping immediately and in 100GB, 200GB and 400GB capacities
UPDATE – Kingston SSDNow E100 Review Posted
