Kingston launches UV500 family line of SSD products

Kingston has launched its UV500 family line of SSD products. Available in multiple form factors, UV500 will be Kingston’s first 3D NAND-enabled SSD featuring full-disk encryption. UV500 is powered by the Marvell 88SS1074 controller, and combined with 3D NAND Flash, delivers incredible read/write speeds of up to 520MB/s and 500MB/s, making it 10x faster than a 7200RPM hard drive. All form factors of the UV500 SSD family are available in retail and e-tail stores with MRPs of INR 5,850/-, INR 10,250/- and INR 19,450/- for 120GB, 240GB and 480GB variants respectively. The complete family of SSDs is backed by a limited five-year warranty and legendary Kingston support.

UV500 dramatically improves a system’s overall responsiveness with incredible boot, loading and transfer times; and, with no moving parts is far less likely to fail compared to mechanical hard drives. UV500 protects sensitive data with 256-bit AES hardware-based encryption and supports TCG Opal 2.0. It is available in three different form factors (2.5″, M.2 2280 & mSATA) to accommodate any client system. UV500 is perfect as a boot drive or for primary storage as it is available in 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, 960GB and 1920GB* capacities.

Vishal Parekh, Marketing Director, Kingston Technology India, said, “We are proud to bring the UV500 family of SSDs featuring self-encryption to market. The combination of a powerful controller, 3D NAND and data encryption in multiple form factors makes UV500 perfect for both consumers and enterprise users looking for a performance boost on existing systems.”

Kingston UV500 Features and Specifications

• Form factor: 2.5″/M.2 2280/mSATA
• Interface: SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s) – with backwards compatibility to SATA Rev. 2.0 (3Gb/s)
• Capacities:
• 2.5″: 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, 960GB, 1920GB
• M.2 2280: 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, 960GB
• mSATA: 120GB, 240GB, 480GB
• Controller: Marvell 88SS1074
• NAND: 3D TLC
• Baseline Performance: Data Transfer (ATTO)
  120GB — up to 520/320MB/s
  240GB — up to 520/500MB/s
  480GB — up to 520/500MB/s
  960GB — up to 520/500MB/s
  Maximum Random 4k Read/Write (IOMETER)
  120GB — up to 79,000/18,000 IOPS
  240GB — up to 79,000/25,000 IOPS
  480GB — up to 79,000/35,000 IOPS
  960GB — up to 79,000/45,000 IOPS
• Power Consumption:
  0.195W Idle / 0.5W Avg / 1.17W (MAX) Read / 2.32 W (MAX) Write
• Storage temperature: -40°C~85°C
• Operating temperature: 0°C~70°C
• Dimensions: 
  100.1mm x 69.85mm x 7mm (2.5″)
  80mm x 22mm x 3.5mm (M.2)
  50.8mm x 29.85mm x 4.85mm (mSATA)
• Weight:
  120GB – 480GB — 41g (2.5″)
  960GB — 57g (2.5″)
  120GB — 6.6g (M.2)
  240GB — 6.7g (M.2)
  480GB — 7.7g (M.2)
  120GB — 6.2g (mSATA)
  240GB – 480GB — 6.7g (mSATA)
• Vibration operating: 2.17G Peak (7–800Hz)
• Vibration non-operating: 20G Peak (10–2000Hz)
• Life expectancy: 1 million hours MTBF
• Warranty/support: Limited 5-year warranty with free technical support
• Total Bytes Written (TBW): 
  120GB — 60TB
  240GB — 100TB
  480GB — 200TB
  960GB — 480TB

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