Kingston Launches UV300-SSD with tlc-NAND

Kingston introduces a rather slow IOPS UV300 SSD series with tlc-NAND. The products will get a Phison S10 controller and will be available in 120GB, 240GB and 480GB volume sizes.

According to Kingston the new SATA-600 SSDs will get normal read speeds of up-to 550MB/s, writes will be 350MB/s, 490MB/s and 510MB/s for the 120GB-, 240GB- and 480GB-models.

The ransom read 4K perf would be a terrific 95.000iops, yet the 4K ransom IOPS writes of 13.000-, 20.000- and  26.000iops are slow. This is mostly due to the tlc-NAND memory used. Prices are not yet released, Russia will be the first country that will see the UV300 series released:

The transfer of compressed data (ATTO)

• 120 GB - 550 MB / s read and 350MB / s write
• 240 GB - 550 MB / s read and 490 MB / s write
• 480 GB - 550 MB / s read and 510 MB / s write

Sending incompressible data (AS-SSD and CrystalDiskMark)

• 120 GB - 505 MB / s read and 280 MB / s write
• 240 GB - 510 MB / s read and 445 MB / s write
• 480 GB - 510 MB / s read and 495 MB / s write

The maximum speed of read / write random 4K blocks in the test IOMETER

• 120 GB - 95,000 IOPS and 13,000 IOPS
• 240GB - 95,000 IOPS and 20,000 IOPS
• 480 GB - 95,000 IOPS and 26,000 IOPS

Read / write speed of random blocks of 4K

• 120 GB - 64,000 IOPS and 12,000 IOPS
• 240GB - 81,000 IOPS and 18,000 IOPS
• 480 GB - 81,000 IOPS and 25,000 IOPS