Kingston DC1000B: The SSD for the data center in M.2 format
Kingston presented an SSD for data centers, the DC1000B: an SSD in the unusual M.2 format, usually used in the consumer sector, to save physical space on servers while maintaining high performance and reliability.
The M.2 format was created specifically for client applications but is also rapidly spreading in the server world thanks to the small size and high performance of the SSD that use this standard. Kingston enters this nascent market with a new SSD designed for data centers: the Kingston DC1000B.
Kingston presents an NVMe SSD for data centers: the DC1000B Data Center
The Kingston DC1000B Data Center is an NVMe SSD with M.2 2280 format designed specifically for the high-density server market: it offers a PCIe 3.0 x4 connection and uses 64-layer TLC 3D NAND chips. These features ensure that the SSD offers, according to Kingston, ” enterprise-level consistency in performance “. The DC1000B will be available in 240GB and 480GB formats.
The choice of format is due to the need to reduce the space used for the disk on which the operating system resides: the places in the front bays of the servers are limited and the possibility of using them all for data storage, without subtracting space for the system, it’s interesting.
But on the disks on which the operating systems reside at the logs are also kept, as well as the local cache in some cases. The constancy in performance mentioned by Kingston goes in the direction of a greater guarantee, compared to discs for private individuals, of performance over time.
The Kingston DC1000B offers 0.5 DWPD for 5 years: this means that it is possible to write data equal to half of the maximum capacity of the disk for 5 years before the performance is degraded. In this way, it is possible to manage the cache and log from the disk without fear that this will fail due to excessive writes.
Although the majority of servers are equipped with UPS systems to avoid sudden shutdowns, it is sometimes the case that servers are exposed to sudden power outages. Kingston has introduced power loss protection (PLP) functionality that prevents the disk from being damaged if a power failure occurs.
To provide the security of data stored on the disk, the DC1000B offers the controller-level 256-bit AES-XTS encryption, making the SSD a self-encrypting drive (SED).
- M.2 (2280) NVMe PCIe SSD Gen 3.0 x 4, performance
- NVMe for server boot workloads
- Application optimized capacities (240GB & 480GB) keep costs low
- M.2 (2280) NVMe PCIe SSD Gen 3.0 x 4, performance
- NVMe for server boot workloads
- Application optimized capacities (240GB & 480GB) keep costs low
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