Kingston has released the SSDNow KC100, a SandForce equipped SATA 6Gb/s SSD geared toward client systems in the enterprise. The KC100, which Kingston calls a "business-equipped" SSD, offers a five year warranty, which may offer more peace of mind to IT departments than the performance specs, which include read speeds up to 555 MB/s and writes up to 510MB/s.
Kingston has released the SSDNow KC100, a SandForce equipped SATA 6Gb/s SSD geared toward client systems in the enterprise. The KC100, which Kingston calls a "business-equipped" SSD, offers a five year warranty, which may offer more peace of mind to IT departments than the performance specs, which include read speeds up to 555 MB/s and writes up to 510MB/s.
Kingston SSDNow KC100 Specs
- Sequential Reads – 555MB/s
- Sequential Writes – 510MB/s
- Sustained Random 4K Read/Write – 60,000 IOPS
- Form factor: 2.5"
- Five year warranty
- Capacity – 120GB, 240GB, 480GB
- Power – 0.455 W (TYP) Idle / 1.6 W (TYP) Read / 2.05 W (TYP) Write
Pricing and Availability
The Kingston SSDNow KC100 family of SSDs is shipping now with suggested retail of $337 for the 120GB capacity, $650 for the 240GB and $1270 for the 480GB. The upgrade kit with 3.5" mounting bracket and cloning software adds $15.
