Kingston Launches 7.68TB SSD
May 28, 2020
Kingston, best known for their Memory modules, have begun shipping their high density SSDs with 7.68TB of storage. The conventional drives with model designation DC500R and DC450R, will eventually be joined by the 7.68TB DC1000M (U.2 NVMe), which ships in June.
All three high capacity storage options have strict QoS ensuring predictable IO and low latency. Each drive is targeted at a specific demographic. The DC500R (6Gbps SATA) is intended to support read-intensive applications such as webservers, virtual desktop infrastructure, operational databases and real-time analytics.
Kingston’s D450R (6Gbps SATA) is also meant for high usage but is optimized for data centres that require more cost effective solutions. Then there’s the DC1000M, a hot-pluggable U.2 drive, which is intended to support the latest servers and storage arrays that use PCIe and U.2 backplanes.
Speaking of the latest additions to the company’s product portfolio, Tony Hollingsbee, SSD business manager, Kingston EMEA, said, “Higher capacity options for data centers enables organizations to increase storage space in their current footprint as cloud computing continues to grow at unprecedented levels.”
Though most of us will never really appreciate these 7.68TB SSDs for our PCs or laptops, Kingston’s new drives will be of interest to cloud computing platforms. Data centers require copious amounts of storage space to maintain cloud-based systems and to guarantee their efficacy.
