Blackfire Posted July 10, 2020 Posted July 10, 2020 (edited) Kingston recently released its DC1000M series of solid-state drives for data center applications, capped off by a massive 7.68TB model. The DC1000M series leverages a hot-pluggable U.2 (2.5”, 15mm) form factor, that’s compatible with U.2 backplanes and the drives target mixed-use, data-intensive workloads, including Cloud computing, web hosting, high-performance computing (HPC), virtual infrastructures, and AI and deep learning applications. There are four drives in the initial Kingston DC1000M family, bookended by a 960GB model and the aforementioned 7.68TB behemoth. We’ve got a 3.84TB model on hand, which we’ll be showing you here. If you peruse the drives’ main features and specifications below, you’ll see very little separates the drive models, save for differing write speeds and IO performance. Take a peek for yourself and then we’ll dig in a little deeper and see how the Kingston DC1000M performs in comparison to a couple of its peers... Kingston DC1000M SSD Specifications & Features Form factor U.2, 2.5” x 15mm Interface PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4 Capacities 960GB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.68TB NAND 3D TLC Sequential read/write 960GB – 3,100MBs/1330MBs 1.92TB – 3,100MBs/2600MBs 3.84TB – 3,100MBs/2700MBs 7.68TB – 3,100MBs/2800MBs Steady-state 4k read/write 960GB – 400,000/125,000 IOPS 1.92TB – 540,000/205,000 IOPS 3.84TB – 525,000/210,000 IOPS 7.68TB – 485,000/210,000 IOPS Latency TYP read/write: <300 µs / <1 ms Static and dynamic wear levelling Yes Power loss protection (power caps) Yes Enterprise SMART tools Reliability tracking, usage statistics, SSD life remaining, wear leveling, temperature Endurance 960GB — 1681TBW (1 DWPD/5yrs) 1.92TB — 3362TBW (1 DWPD/5yrs) 3.84TB — 6725TBW (1 DWPD/5yrs) 7.68TB — 13450TBW (1 DWPD/5yrs) Power consumption 960GB: Idle: 5.14W Average Read: 5.25W Average Write: 9.10W Max Read: 5.64W Max Write: 9.80W 1.92TB: Idle: 5.22W Average Read: 5.31W Average Write: 13.1W Max Read: 5.70W Max Write: 13.92W 3.84TB: Idle: 5.54W Average Read: 5.31W Average Write: 14.69W Max Read: 6.10W Max Write: 15.5W 7.68TB: Idle: 5.74W Average Read: 5.99W Average Write: 17.06W Max Read: 6.63W Max Write: 17.88W Storage / Operating Temperature -40°C ~ 85°C / 0°C ~ 70°C Dimensions / Weight 100.09mm x 69.84mm x 14.75mm / 160(g) Vibration operating / non-operating 2.17G peak (7-800Hz) / 20G peak (10-2,000Hz) MTBF 2 million hours Warranty / support Limited 5-year warranty with free technical support Kingston DC1000M SSDs feature 96-layer 3D NAND flash memory, a native NVMe PCI Express Gen 3.0 x4 interface and offer read speeds north of 3.1GB/s, with writes ranging from 1.33GB/s for the 960GB model to the 2.8GB/s for the top-end 7.78TB drive. The 3.84TB drive we evaluated isn’t too far behind at 2.7GB/s. Kingston’s specifications claim the DC1000M is designed to deliver up to 540K IOPS of random read performance with QoS designed to ensure “predictable random IO performance as well as predictable latencies over a wide range of workloads.” Endurance is rated for 1 DWPD (Drive Write Per Day) for 5 years with a 2 million hour mean time before failure. Of course, the drives offer reliability and usage statistics tracking, SMART monitoring, static and dynamic wear leveling, and temperature sensors, which are important to data center use cases. They also offer end-to-end power loss protection as well. Power consumption varies depending on the capacity, but ranges from the low 5W to 6W range for average reads and writes to a range of 9.8W – 17.88W for maximum writes. All of the drives carry a limited 5-year warranty, which is fairly standard for this class of product. Edited July 12, 2020 by Dr.Drako Closed Topic / Complete 24 hours. 1
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