UV500 2.5-Inch, M.2 2280 and mSATA SSD With Marvell Controller From Kingston Digital

Kingston Digital, Inc., the flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology company, Inc., is shipping the UV500 family line of SSD products.

Available in multiple form factors, UV500 will be the company’s first 3D NAND-enabled SSD featuring full-disk encryption. UV500 is powered by the Marvell Technology Group Ltd‘ 88SS1074 controller, and combined with 3D NAND flash, delivers R/W speeds of up to 520MB/s and 500MB/s, making it 10x faster than a 7,200rpm HDD.

UV500 improves a system’s overall responsiveness with fast boot, loading and transfer times; and, with no moving parts is far less likely to fail compared to mechanical HDDs. It protects sensitive data with 256-bit AES hardware-based encryption and supports TCG Opal 2.0. It is available in three different form factors (2.5”, M.2 2280, mSATA) to accommodate any client system. UV500 is a boot drive or for primary storage as it is available in 120, 240, 480, 960 and 1,920GB^(*) capacities.

2.5-Inch UV500 SSD

“We are proud to bring the UV500 family of SSDs featuring self-encryption to market,” said Ariel Perez, manager, SSD business, Kingston. “The combination of a powerful controller, 3D NAND and data encryption in multiple form factors makes UV500 perfect for both consumers and enterprise users looking for a performance boost on existing systems.“

UV500 is backed by a limited 5-year warranty with the firm’s support.

⁽¹⁾ Based on ‘out-of-box performance’ using a SATA Rev 3.0 / PCIe 3.0 motherboard. Speed may vary due to host hardware, software, and usage. IOMETER Random 4K R/W is based on 8GB partition
⁽²⁾. Some of the listed capacity on a flash storage device is used for formatting and other functions and thus is not available for storage. As such, the actual available capacity for storage is less than what is listed on the products. For more information, go to Kingston’s Flash Memory Guide.
⁽³⁾ Limited warranty based on five years or SSD ‘Life Remaining’ which can be found using the Kingston SSD Manager. A new, unused product will show a wear indicator value of one hundred, whereas a product that has reached its endurance limit of program erase cycles will show a wear indicator value of one (1). For details.
⁽⁴⁾ Total Bytes Written (TBW) is derived from the JEDEC Client Workload (JESD219A).
^(*) Coming soon