NVMe capable SSDs are growing increasingly popular these days, offering much higher transfer speeds than your usual SATA drive. Kingston today released the DCP-1000 line of high-performance PCI-Express SSDs, targeted at enterprises and data-center customers, which usually have the highest demands regarding performance and reliability. The drives come with a half-height add-on card form-factor and it's using a PCI-Express 3.0 x8 host interface.


The Kingston DCP-1000 PCI-Express NVMe SSDs are going to 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 (read/write), while with the 1600 GB variant the performance is up to 1'100'000 / 200'000 IOPS. The 3200 GB drive offers up to 1'000'000 / 180'000 IOPS. These drives sport 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 3.2 TB unit. The DCP-1000 series is available at few e-tailers. According to CDW.com, the 800 GB model costs $1'174 US, the 1.6 TB hits $2'163 US and the 3.2 TB sells for $5'819 US. Apart from that Kingston covers these drives with a 5 years of warranty plan.



Source: Techpowerup