Kingston UV500 performance SSDs launched in India

Kingston Digital, maker of flash and memory products, announced the launch of UV500 lineup of SSD products. Kingston UV500 comes with Kingston’s first 3D NAND enabled SSDs with full disk encryption. UV500 is powered by the Marvell 88SS1074 controller, and combined with 3D NAND Flash, delivers incredible read/write speeds of up to 520MB/s and 500MB/s, making it 10x faster than a 7200RPM hard drive. All form factors of the UV500 SSD family are available in retail and e-tail stores with MRPs of INR 5,850/-, INR 10,250/- and INR 19,450/- for 120GB, 240GB and 480GB variants respectively. The complete family of SSDs is backed by a limited five-year warranty and legendary Kingston support. 

“We are proud to bring the UV500 family of SSDs featuring self-encryption to market,” said Vishal Parekh, Marketing Director, Kingston Technology India. “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.”

Kingston UV500 Key Specifications

• Form factor: 2.5″/M.2 2280/mSATA
• Interface: SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s) – with backwards compatibility to SATA Rev. 2.0 (3Gb/s)
• Capacities2:
  • 2.5″: 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, 960GB, 1920GB*
  • M.2 2280: 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, 960GB*
  • mSATA: 120GB, 240GB, 480GB
• Controller: Marvell 88SS1074
• NAND: 3D TLC
• Baseline Performance: Data Transfer (ATTO)
  • 120GB — up to 520/320MB/s
  • 240GB — up to 520/500MB/s
  • 480GB — up to 520/500MB/s
  • 960GB — up to 520/500MB/s
• Maximum Random 4k Read/Write (IOMETER)
  • 120GB — up to 79,000/18,000 IOPS
  • 240GB — up to 79,000/25,000 IOPS
  • 480GB — up to 79,000/35,000 IOPS
  • 960GB — up to 79,000/45,000 IOPS
• Power Consumption: 0.195W Idle / 0.5W Avg / 1.17W (MAX) Read / 2.32 W (MAX) Write
• Storage temperature: -40°C~85°C
• Operating temperature: 0°C~70°C
• Dimensions:
  • 100.1mm x 69.85mm x 7mm (2.5″)
  • 80mm x 22mm x 3.5mm (M.2)
  • 50.8mm x 29.85mm x 4.85mm (mSATA)
• Weight:
  • 120GB – 480GB — 41g (2.5″)
  • 960GB — 57g (2.5″)
  • 120GB — 6.6g (M.2)
  • 240GB — 6.7g (M.2)
  • 480GB — 7.7g (M.2)
  • 120GB — 6.2g (mSATA)
  • 240GB – 480GB — 6.7g (mSATA)
• Vibration operating: 2.17G Peak (7–800Hz)
• Vibration non-operating: 20G Peak (10–2000Hz)
• Life expectancy: 1 million hours MTBF
• Warranty/support3: Limited 5-year warranty with free technical support

UV500 Pricing: