Kingston SSDNow E100 Enterprise 2.5-Inch SATA SSD

Kingston Digital, Inc., the flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology company, Inc., announced the SSDNow E100 SSD, an enterprise SSD.

The drive enables enterprises to accommodate the performance demands required in support of big data and virtualization initiatives.

The  E100 SSD achieves up to 10X improvements in endurance and reliability over client SSDs on existing hardware, while reducing the physical footprint as fewer SSDs are needed to handle the tasks of many traditional HDD.

The performance and processing requirements required in the rapid analysis of massive data sets and large collections of virtual systems have pushed many servers far beyond their breaking point. The next generation E100 SSD provides higher IOPS compared to HDDs, reducing processing bottlenecks, computer latency and physical system limitations.

In a recent virtualized database performance test that compared Kingston’s Enterprise SSD with traditional HDDs, the review "found that replacing a solution consisting of a server with an external chassis containing 24 HDDs with only six internal SSDs increased total database performance by up to 91.8%." The amount of power consumed "while idle and while running database workloads for both revealed that Kingston’s SSDs used up to 51.0% less power than the HDDs, and increased performance per watt by a staggering 184.2%."

"Companies worldwide have come to depend on Kingston server memory for reliability and performance," said Ariel Perez, SSD business manager, Kingston. "We are proud to introduce the SSDNow E100 enterprise-class SSD to help organizations handle such initiatives as big data and virtualized environments. The drive’s higher endurance and reliability, along with higher IOPS make it an integral part of a datacenter where uninterrupted 24/7 operation is mission critical."

The SSDNow E100 SSD is shipping and is available in 100GB, 200GB and 400GB capacities.

It is backed by a three-year warranty and free technical support.

Kingston showcased the SSDNow E100 SSD at VMWorld in San Francisco, CA, from August 26 to 30.

E100 SSD Features and Specs:

• Performance: higher IOPS for multi-user environments
• Endurance: Data Integrity Protection featuring DuraClass Technology
• Dependable: RAISE for advanced data reliability
• Secure: self-encrypting drive
• Durable: DuraWrite optimizes writes to extend endurance
• Warranty/support: three-year warranty with free technical support
• Form factor: 2.5"
• Interface: SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s), SATA Rev. 2.0 (3Gb/s), SATA Rev. 1.0 (1.5Gb/s)
• Capacities: 100GB, 200GB, 400GB

Sequential Reads
Based on "out-of-box performance" with IOMeter08:

• SATA Rev. 3.0 – 100GB, 200GB, & 400GB – up to 535MB/s
• SATA Rev. 2.0 – 100GB, 200GB, & 400GB – up to 270MB/s

Sequential Writes
Based on "out-of-box performance" with IOMeter08:

• SATA Rev. 3.0 – 100GB, 200GB, & 400GB – up to 500MB/s
• SATA Rev. 2.0 – 100GB & 200GB – 255MB/s, 400GB – up to 260MB/s

Sustained Random 4k Read/Write
Based on "out-of-box performance" with IOMeter08:

• 100GB – 47,000/81,000 IOPS
• 200GB – 59,000/72,000 IOPS
• 400GB – 52,000/37,000 IOPS

Maximum Random 4k Read/Write
Based on "out-of-box performance" with IOMeter08:

• 100GB – 55,000/83,000 IOPS
• 200GB – 59,000/73,000 IOPS
• 400GB – 52,000/37,000 IOPS

Enterprise SMART Tools
Reliability Tracking, Usage Statistics, Life Remaining, Wear Leveling, Temperature, Drive Life Protection

Power Consumption:

• 100GB – 0.5W (TYP) Idle / 1.2W (TYP) Read / 2.7W (TYP) Write
• 200GB – 0.5W (TYP) Idle / 1.2W (TYP) Read / 3.1W (TYP) Write
• 400GB – 0.5W (TYP) Idle / 1.2W (TYP) Read / 5.0W (TYP) Write

Dimensions
69.9mm x 100mm x 7mm

Weight
96.6 grams

Storage temperature
-40 ~ 85°C

Operating temperature
0 ~ 70°C

TRIM
Not supported

MTBF
10,000,000 Hrs

Total Bytes Written (TBW) (Refers to how much total data can be written to an SSD for a given workload before the drive reaches its endurance limits.):

• 100GB – 428TB
• 200GB – 857TB
• 400GB – 1714TB

Test System
Intel C600 Romley Server Platform