Kingston PCIe 4.0 SSD with Phison-E18 pushes 7000 MB/s

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/14/2021 10:14 AM | source: | 6 comment(s)

Kingston will offer a consumer SSD with a PCIe 4.0 interface, which will be called the Kingston KC3000. The Phison-E18 controller is used in conjunction with the tlc-nand to control the system.

Both the 2TB and 4TB variants have sequential read and write rates of 7,000 megabytes per second, which is more than twice as fast as its predecessor, the KC2500. The write speed for the 1TB model is 6,000MB/s, while the write speed for the 512GB model is 3,900MB/s. In terms of random read and write operations per second, the higher-end models can handle up to 1 million iops, while the lower-end versions can handle 450,000 to 900,000 operations per second.

High power usage (up to 10.2 watts) requires a cooling solution, which is included in the shape of a graphene sticker. The total bytes written, abbreviated as TBW, is 800 times the storage space available on the disk in question, and hence ranges from 400 to 3,200 terabytes in size. The KC3000 will be formally released on October 25th, however, the pricing has not yet been determined. The manufacturer's guarantee must be in effect for a period of five years.

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#5955585 Posted on: 10/14/2021 10:32 PM

Soon you'll need RAM slots for SSD speeds.

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#5955703 Posted on: 10/15/2021 07:04 AM

Soon you'll need RAM slots for SSD speeds.

Nah pci5 is on the way bumping the theoretical max to 16 gb and the pci6 is almost validated so 3-5 years away from the market an that will push it to 32gb.

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#5955780 Posted on: 10/15/2021 01:06 PM

Nah pci5 is on the way bumping the theoretical max to 16 gb and the pci6 is almost validated so 3-5 years away from the market an that will push it to 32gb.

GIMME.....GIMME.....GIMME....!.!

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#5955832 Posted on: 10/15/2021 04:48 PM

GIMME.....GIMME.....GIMME....!.!

Patience , at least it will not be long for pci5 .... Man after pci3 hanging around for so long it almost feels like pci4 was kinda skipped :p

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#5959902 Posted on: 10/29/2021 02:54 PM

Patience , at least it will not be long for pci5 .... Man after pci3 hanging around for so long it almost feels like pci4 was kinda skipped :p

Totally accurate on that statement as I for sure feel the same. By the time for a "necessary" upgrade on my end things are going to truly be interesting to say the least.

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