Kingston releases new enterprise level SSD with power loss protection

[Marzipan]

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/k...nvme-ssd-featuring-power-loss-protection.html

looks to be mostly for the boot drive and in low capacities to keep costs under control.

just pulled it up on Kingston's website to see performance info...is that a typo for writing or is a drive like this really that slow?
https://www.kingston.com/us/ssd/dc1000b-data-center-boot-ssd

 

[Entz]

Yeah that is most likely correct. OS writes are pretty low in numbers. Same for caching where its write once and ready many. Numbers are not far off SATA drives really and depending on low QD speeds still orders of magnitude higher than spinners (12k IOPS is a lot) . A lot of NVMe drives cheat by using SLC like mode (1 bit per cell) to accelerate writes but that also leads to inconsistent performance or problems when full. Cheap/easy route is to just write to the flash like a normal person

 

[Marzipan]

well, the drive does have PCIe 3.0 x4 speeds for reading.

 

[Entz]

Yeah exactly. I was meaning its writes are similar to SATA. Not that big of deal for its intended use.

I am genuinely curious what the price will be for these, I can think of a few places to use them.

 

[Marzipan]

Yeah exactly. I was meaning its writes are similar to SATA. Not that big of deal for its intended use.

I am genuinely curious what the price will be for these, I can think of a few places to use them.

most people could actually use these I'd think...we barely exceed SATA speeds with what we do and the PLP would be nice.