Kingston announces several new additions to consumer SSDs. The NV1 is an M.2 NVMe SSD in the lower price and performance class that was announced at CES. There are also three new mSATA models from the existing KC600 series.
Kingston NV1 with PCIe 3.0 x4
In January, Kingston had promised an NVMe SSD series for beginners in addition to the potential flagship with the code name "Ghost Tree". The market launch is now imminent because the NV1 series is to be released at the end of March. In the M.2-2280 form factor with the one-sided assembly of the board, models with storage capacities of 500 GB, 1 TB, or 2 TB are offered. Kingston does not provide any information on the controller or NAND type, which is why the use of different components cannot be ruled out. Via PCIe 3.0 x4, " all capacities " should read data sequentially with a maximum of 2,100 MB / s and write with 1,700 MB / s. The use of an SLC cache to accelerate the write processes is mandatory.
The 2.1 mm flat SSD bars should only consume 5 milliwatts of power in idle mode (with active energy-saving mode). Kingston states the maximum power consumption is 1.1 watts for reading and 3.3 watts for writing. Thanks to its compact dimensions and low energy consumption, Kingston plans to use it in slim notebooks, among other things. The NV1 SSDs are offered with a three-year guarantee and comparatively low TBW specifications of 120 TB, 240 TB and 480 TB. It remains to be seen whether this is an indication of cheap, but less durable and slow QLC storage. The price recommendations for the Kingston NV1 are not yet available.
KC600 now also with mSATA
The KC600 SSD series has been on the market for a number of years, but mSATA will soon be another format to choose from in addition to the previously offered 2.5-inch format. With the SM2259 controller from Silicon Motion and unspecified 3D-TLC-NAND, the KC600 mSATA is equipped with the same datasheet as the 2.5-inch version. However, the mSATA cards measuring around 50 × 30 × 5 mm (L × W × H) do not have the maximum storage capacity of 2,048 GB, instead, there are only 256 GB, 512 GB and 1,024 GB to choose from.
The performance data are again unchanged: a maximum of data should be read sequentially at 550 MB / s and written at 500 or 520 MB / s. The maximum IOPS for random read / write are estimated at 90,000 / 80,000. Overall, these are typical values of current SATA SSDs that are at the limit of the interface. The KC600 family offers hardware encryption, whereby the standards AES 256, TCG Opal and eDrive are supported. Both the warranty period (5 years) and TBW (600 TB per TB) are longer than for the NV1. Here, too, there is still a lack of official price information for the mSATA models.
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