{"id":117863,"date":"2017-05-26T14:43:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T12:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=117863"},"modified":"2017-05-26T14:44:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T12:44:09","slug":"kingston-unveils-new-nvme-pcie-ssd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/117863-kingston-unveils-new-nvme-pcie-ssd","title":{"rendered":"Kingston unveils new NVMe PCIe SSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kingston has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingston.com\/us\/company\/press\/article\/48938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> that its KC1000 NVMe PCIe SSD will be available in June 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Kingston KC1000 is an M.2 SSD with an NVMe PCIe interface, and is available in 240GB, 480GB, and 960GB capacities.<\/p>\n<p>The device is aimed at users seeking high-end performance, such as video editors and gamers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKC1000 is the perfect solution to meet the needs of media and design professionals, gaming enthusiasts, and anyone who needs ultra-low latency storage performance to end data bottlenecks,\u201d said Kingston.<\/p>\n<p>All KC1000 SSDs are backed by a 5-year warranty and use MLC (multilevel cell) NAND flash.<\/p>\n<p>Pricing for the SSDs is not currently available.<\/p>\n<div class=\"myg_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"2\">\n<div align=\"center\">Kingston KC1000<\/div>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Form Factor<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>M.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\"><strong>Interface<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\">NVMe PCIe Gen 3.0 x4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>NAND<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>MLC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Capacities<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>240GB, 480GB, 960GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Sequential Read\/Write<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>240GB:<\/strong> Up to 2,700\/900MB\/s<br \/>\n<strong>480GB:<\/strong> Up to 2,700\/1,600MB\/s<br \/>\n<strong>960GB:<\/strong> Up to 2,700\/1,600MB\/s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Random 4K Read\/Write<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>240GB:<\/strong> Up to 190,000\/160,000 IOPS<br \/>\n<strong>480GB:<\/strong> Up to 190,000\/160,000 IOPS<br \/>\n<strong>960GB:<\/strong> Up to 190,000\/165,000 IOPS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>TBW<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>240GB:<\/strong> 300TB<br \/>\n<strong>480GB:<\/strong> 550TB<br \/>\n<strong>960GB:<\/strong> 1PB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>MTBF<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>2,000,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Release Date<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>June 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/212562-kingston-reveals-super-fast-kc1000-ssd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/193006-kingston-launches-worlds-largest-flash-drive.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Kingston launches world\u2019s largest flash drive<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kingston has announced that its KC1000 NVMe PCIe SSD will be available in June 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":117865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2509,16188,2101],"class_list":["post-117863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-kingston","tag-nvme","tag-ssd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117867,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117863\/revisions\/117867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}