NVMe capable SSDs are growing increasingly popular these days, offering much higher transfer speeds than your usual SATA drive. New markets always offer new opportunities and that on the other hand means that different vendors will launch new products. Kingston today announced the DCP-1000 line of high-performance PCI-Express SSDs, targeted at enterprises and data-centers with high bandwidth demands. The drives come in the half-height add-on card form-factor and it's using a PCI-Express 3.0 x8 host interface.


The new Kingston DCP-1000 PCI-Express NVMe SSD should be available with 800 GB, 1600 GB and 3200 GB capacity. Talking about performance, sequentially reading these drives should hit up to 6'800MB/s and up to 6'000MB/s sequentially writing. The 4K random access performance of the 800 GB variant is 900'000 / 145'000 IOPS (reads/writes), while with the 1600 GB variant the performance is bumped up to 1'100'000 / 200'000 IOPS. The 3200 GB variant offers up to 1'000'000 / 180'000 IOPS. These drives come with full-length heatsinks, cooling the MLC NAND flash chips, the controller and a bank of capacitors that provide data-loss protection in the case of a power loss.

The endurance ranges from 187 TBW on the 800 GB model up to 697 TBW in the case of the 3.2TB unit. According to Kingston, the new DCP-1000 PCI-Express NVMe SSD is compatible with Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Linux Kernel 3.3, FreeBSD 10.x / 11 and VMware vSphere 6.0.

So far Kingston has not revealed any details on pricing and availability regarding their DCP-1000, but we are pretty sure that they will all be pretty expensive. Apart from that Kingston covers these drives with 5 years of warranty.







Source: The Tech Report