Kingston Digital Europe Co LLP, the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, recently announced the availability of DC1000M, a new U.2 data center NVMe PCIe SSD. DC1000M is designed to support a broad range of data-intensive enterprise workloads such as Cloud computing, web hosting, high-performance computing (HPC), virtual infrastructures, artificial intelligence and deep knowledge applications. DC1000M joins the currently launched DC1000B NVMe boot drive, the VMware Ready DC500 series SATA SSDs and DC450R to form the most complete range of best enterprise-class information center storage solutions in the market.

Mission critical services and Cloud-based applications rely not solely on lightning-fast IOPS and bandwidth, but also on the consistency and predictability of the information being serviced, stated Tony Hollingsbee, SSD business manager, Kingston EMEA. DC1000M offers the stability and low latency for the evolving data center while powering the workloads that require one drive write per day (1 DWPD) endurance.

DC1000M is an inexpensive and effective NVMe drive for data centers. Customers looking to make the jump from SATA/SAS SSDs to NVMe will experience the similarities in implementation but with much quicker data rates and lower latency. The drive features high-storage capacity and best in-class enterprise performance. DC1000M provides a high-performance Gen 3.0 x4 NVMe PCIe interface enabling excessive throughput and low latency on standardized platforms, delivering up to 540K IOPS of random read performance and over 3GB/s of throughput. DC1000M is constructed to strict QoS requirements to make sure predictable random IO performance as well as predictable latencies over a wide range of server workloads.

The broadly accepted U.2 (2.5) form factor design works seamlessly with the modern generation servers and storage arrays using PCIe and U.2 backplanes. Its hot pluggable which makes the challenges of serviceable PCIe storage an issue of the past. Additionally, the drive consists of enterprise-class elements such as end-to-end data path protection, power-loss protection (PLP) and telemetry monitoring for extended data center reliability. DC1000M is available in 960GB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB and 7.68TB capacities; and, is backed by a restricted five-year warranty, free technical support and legendary Kingston reliability. For more details visit kingston.com.

DC1000M SSD Features & Specifications

Data Center NVMe Performance: Incredible I/O consistency with speeds of up to 3GB/s and up to 540K IOPS.

Enterprise-Class Mixed-Use Storage: An exceptional balance of consistent I/O delivery with high read and write IOPS performance to manage a wide range of transactional workloads.

Reduce Application Latencies: Quality of Service (QoS) delivers ultra-low transactional latency for large data sets and various web-based applications.

On-board Power Loss Protection (PLP): Enterprise-class protection to reduce possibility of data loss or corruption on ungraceful power fails.

Form Factor: U.2, 2.5 x 15mm

Interface: NVMe PCIe Gen 3.0 x4

Capacities¹: 960GB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.68TB⁷

NAND: 3D TLC

Sequential Read/Write:

960GB 3,100MBs/1,330MBs

1.92TB 3,100MBs/2,600MBs

3.84TB 3,100MBs/2,700MBs

7.68TB 3,100MBs/2,800MBs

Steady-State 4k Read/Write²:

960GB 400,000/125,000 IOPS

1.92TB 540,000/205,000 IOPS

3.84TB 525,000/210,000 IOPS

7.68TB 485,000/210,000 IOPS

Latency^{2 3 4 5}: TYP Read/Write: <300 s / <1 ms

Static and Dynamic Wear Leveling: Yes

Power Loss Protection (Power Caps): Yes

Enterprise SMART tools: Reliability tracking, usage statistics, SSD life remaining, wear leveling, temperature

Endurance:

960GB (1 DWPD/5yrs)⁵

1.92TB (1 DWPD/5yrs)⁵

3.84TB (1 DWPD/5yrs)⁵

7.68TB (1 DWPD/5yrs)⁵

Power Consumption:

960GB: Idle: 5.14W Average Read: 5.25W Average Write: 9.10W Max Read: 5.64W Max Write: 9.80W

1.92TB: Idle: 5.22W Average Read: 5.31W Average Write: 13.1W Max Read: 5.70W Max Write: 13.92W

3.84TB: Idle: 5.54W Average Read: 5.31W Average Write: 14.69W Max Read: 6.10W Max Write: 15.5W

7.68TB: Idle: 5.74W Average Read: 5.99W Average Write: 17.06W Max Read: 6.63W Max Write: 17.88W

Storage temperature: -40C ~ 85C

Operating temperature: 0C ~ 70C

Dimensions: 100.09mm x 69.84mm x 14.75mm

Weight: 160(g)

Vibration operating: 2.17G Peak (7800Hz)

Vibration non-operating: 20G Peak (102000Hz)

MTBF: 2 million hours

Warranty/support⁶: Limited 5-year warranty with free technical support