NAB: Kingston Digital Demonstrated PCIe NVMe SSD DCP1000 to Broadcast Professionals

Kingston Digital, Inc., flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., demonstrated its Data Center PCIe NVMe SSD (DCP1000) to broadcast professionals and digital artists at the NAB 2017 Show in Las Vegas, NV.

DCP1000 offers the high data throughput for media intensive applications that depend on high-performance storage to compete.

“With the lowest latency and highest data throughput in the industry, DCP1000 is the solution the media and production industry needs to turn the latest exclusive story into production-ready broadcast content or render high-resolution video on tight deadlines,” said Ariel Perez, manager, SSD business, Kingston. “DCP1000 is the perfect solution to meet the needs of digital content professionals in a variety of production environments utilizing many industry-leading production applications.“

 Broadcast and digital content professionals face production windows for delivering multi-platform digital content across a competitive and deeply fragmented media landscape. DCP1000 solves the challenge by delivering up to 7GB/s low latency read performance and 6GB/s write, as well as up to 1.25 million IO/s from a single device occupying one PCIe slot.

In an increasing digital world, production companies with data-intensive compute and processing requirements will realize the real-world benefits of the DCP1000 through:

• Performance improvements for high resolution image editing and compositing, video encoding/transcoding and other production activities;

• Reduced video playback and rendering from minutes to seconds;

• Manipulating content in real time and reducing delays in the production pipeline that can affect deadline-driven task completion;

• Excelling in emerging media such as 8K digital production and advanced virtual reality ecosystems in which already significant storage requirements grow with each new breakthrough.

 At NAB, the company showcased:

• A video wall streaming over 400 high-definition videos from a single DCP1000, demonstrating the raw power of its data read throughput.

• A single 1U rack mount server running four DCP1000 SSDs delivering 4.5 million IO/s and 20GB/s of sequential bandwidth.

DCP1000 SSD features and specifications:

• Data center SSD performance: DCP1000 features fast PCIe Gen 3.0 x8, making it for data centers requiring performance.

• Outperforms legacy architectures: DCP1000 delivers performance with an low transactional latency.

• Form factor: Half Height Half Length PCIe (AIC)

• Interface: NVMe PCle Gen 3.0 x8 Lanes

• Capacities: 800GB, 1.6, 3.2TB

• Sequential R/W:

  • 800GB: 6,800/5,000MB/s

  • 1.6TB: 6,800/6,000MB/s

  • 3.2TB: 6,800/6,000MB/s

• Steady-state random 4k R/W:

  • 800GB: 900,000/145,000 IO/s

  • 1.6TB: 1,100,000/200,000 IO/s

  • 3.2TB: 1,000,000/180,000 IO/s

• Latency: (Typical) R/W 100μs/30μs

• MTBF: Two million hours

• Warranty/support: Limited five-year warranty with free technical support

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2017.03.17 | Press Release