Summary
...respectable endurance and enough performance to easily saturate the 6Gbps interface.With a growing number of drives available at a cost of less than 25p per gigabyte, the up-front outlay of enterprise SSDs is no longer prohibitive for business customers wanting to take advantage of solid-state technology.
Widely-supported SATA solutions still account for the bulk of sales in this space, and Kingston is vying for a slice of the market by taking a two-pronged approach with its DC500 Series.
Designed to meet the requirements of read-centric and mixed-workload servers, respectively, the DC500R and DC500M come to market carrying a familiar combination of Phison S12 controller and Intel 64-layer 3D TLC NAND. Such a formula delivers respectable endurance and enough performance to easily saturate the 6Gbps interface, and Kingston's pricing is competitive with other enterprise solutions currently on the market.
This is a safe start for Kingston's journey in datacentre SSDs, and we can expect plenty more in the months ahead as the firm's DC Series catalogue grows to include M.2 and, one would think, PCIe 4.0 solutions.
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