Kingston Ships 960GB SSD

Kingston Digital, Inc. announced its latest addition to the SSDNow V300 series, the V310.

It boosts system responsiveness while also offering 960GB capacity to store all movies, music, games, files and applications.

It is 10x faster than a 7,200rpm hard-disk drive1. Powered by a Phison 3108 controller, the drive achieves 450MB/s read and write speeds. With no moving mechanical parts, V310 is shock-proof, uses less energy and stays cool making it more reliable and less likely to fail than standard hard-disk drives. The large capacity allows enough space for a true HDD replacement so users can migrate their entire HDD over with storage to spare.

“Since 2009, our V ‘Value’ series SSDs have delivered the best price to performance ratio as possible to enable consumers on a budget or entry-level users to experience the benefits of SSD technology. Our new V310 continues that along with providing the biggest capacity ever in a Kingston SSD,” said Ariel Perez, SSD business manager, Kingston.” SSDNow V310 with its large 960GB capacity is the perfect upgrade to an existing system as it improves boot speeds and application load times helping maximize one’s computer investment.“

V310 is available in 960GB as a stand-alone drive or as all-in-one kits that include the accessories needed plus software to clone files and OS to make for an install. It is backed by a three-year warranty, free technical support and Kingston reliability.

Features and Specifications:

Faster: improves speed of loading applications and system boot up
Reliable: with no moving parts, SSDs are less likely to fail than standard HDDs
Convenient: all-in-one kits with all the components for easy installation
Large capacity: enough space to migrate your entire HDD over to a SSD
Form factor: 2.5-inch drive available in 70mm with adapter to fit in 9.5mm systems
Silent: runs silent and cool
Interface: SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s) – with backwards compatibility to SATA Rev. 2.0
Capacities: 960GB
Baseline Performance:
- Compressible Data Transfer (ATTO): 450MB/s read and 450MB/s write
- Incompressible Data Transfer (AS-SSD and CrystalDiskMark): 500MB/s read and 440MB/s write
- IOMETER Maximum Random 4k R/W: 40,000 IO/s and 20,000 IO/s
- Random 4k R/W: 27,000 IO/s and 10,500 IO/s
- PCMARK 8 Storage Score: 4,700
Power Consumption: 0.08W idle / 1.28W Avg/ 1.16W (max) read / 5.39W (max) Write
Storage temperature: -40°F to 185°F (-40°C to 85°C)
Operating temperature: 32°F to 158°F (0°C to 70°C)
Dimensions: 69.8mm x 100.1mm x 7mm
Weight: 92.5g
Vibration operating: 2.17G peak (7-800Hz)
Vibration non-operating: 20G peak (10-2000Hz)
Life expectancy: 1 million hours MTBF
Warranty/support: 3-year warranty with free technical support
Total Bytes Written (TBW): 2,728TB 2.56DWPD