Kingston SSDNow KC300: 2.5-Inch, 7mm, Up to 480GB, 6Gb SATA

Kingston Digital, Inc. announced its SSDNow family, the KC300 SSD.

It enables business, mobile and power users to be more productive as the drive maximizes power efficiencies in notebook PCs. It provides advanced power management via an LSI SandForce second-generation SF-2281 processor, allowing users to do more from a single charge.

KC300 is replacing the V+200 and KC100 SSDs. The drive features enterprise-grade SMART attributes, allowing IT departments to monitor wear range data, SSD life left, write amplification and total bytes written. KC300 comes equipped with Data Integrity Protection featuring DuraWrite technology to extend the life of the SSD by effectively and efficiently reducing the number of flash writes via an intelligent compression engine without sacrificing data integrity. RAISE reduces the number of uncorrectable errors in the drive, over and above standard error code correction.

"Kingston’s new SSDNow KC300 is designed to help business, mobile and power users extend the lifespan and improve the performance of their PC or notebook with higher speeds, greater stability and reliability," said Ariel Perez, SSD business manager, Kingston. "KC300 provides greater power efficiency than the traditional HDD drive, thus allowing users to keep on working longer without having to recharge the battery."

KC300 is available as a stand-alone drive or as an upgrade kit containing cloning software and other accessories for a desktop and/or notebook system. It is backed by a three-year warranty, free technical support and Kingston reliability.

Kingston is celebrating 25 years in the memory industry. The company was founded on October 17, 1987, and has grown to become the largest third-party memory manufacturer in the world. In addition, HyperX memory is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The first HyperX high-performance memory module was released in November 2002.

Kingston SSDNow KC300 Features and Specs:

• Form factor: 2.5", 7mm height
• Advanced Power Management: extends notebook battery life during typical computing session
• Fast: performance increase for any system upgrade
• Endurance: Data Integrity Protection featuring DuraClass technology
• Durable: DuraWrite intelligent compression engine extends the life of the SSD
• Dependable: RAISE reduces the number of uncorrectable errors on the drive
• Multiple capacities: to meet storage needs
• Guaranteed: three-year warranty, free technical support
• Interface: SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s) – with backwards compatibility to SATA Rev. 2.0
• Capacities: 60GB, 120GB, 180GB, 240GB, 480GB
• Controller: SandForce SF2281
• Sequential Reads: SATA Rev. 3.0 525MB/s
• Sequential Writes: SATA Rev. 3.0 500MB/s
• Maximum Random 4k R/W3: 60GB: 84,000/ 64,000 IO/s; 120GB: 84,000/ 64,000 IO/s; 180GB: 84,000/ 64,000 IO/s; 240GB: 84,000/ 52,000 IO/s; 480GB: 73,000/ 32,000 IO/s
• PCMARK Vantage HDD Suite Score: 57,000
• Power Consumption: 0.6 W (max) Idle / 1.4 W (max) Read / 2.9 W (max) Write
• Storage temperatures: -40°C ~ 85°C
• Operating temperatures: 0°C ~ 70°C
• Dimensions: 69.8mm x 100.1mm x 7.0mm
• Weight: 60GB, 120GB, 180GB, 240GB: 86.0g; 480GB: 92.3g
• Vibration operating: 2.17G peak (7-800Hz)
• Vibration non-operating: 20G peak (10-2,000Hz)
• Life expectancy: 1 million hours MTBF
• Warranty/support: three-year warranty with free technical support
• Total Bytes Written: 60GB: 47TB; 120GB: 94TB; 180GB: 141TB; 240GB: 188TB; 480GB: 375TB