Kingston DC1000B Series Server Boot SSD Launched

[Cliff Robinson]

Designed as compact boot media with data center features, the Kingston DC1000B NVMe boot SSD has next-generation servers in its sights

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[Octopuss]

Could anyone explain how can a NVMe SSD have such pathetic write speed? The 240GB version doesn't even get to 300MB/s. That's ridiculous and completely useless even for a boot drive, considering it's a SSD.

 

[EffrafaxOfWug]

Remember that's steady-state performance (or at least it should be); it should be able to sustain writes at that speed 24 hours a day for as long as the drives last, something that consumer drives aren't capable of - they'll be burstable at 1GB/s as long as they're <50% full and the pseudo-SLC isn't used up, but they can't sustain writes like that all day.

And I'm not sure why write speeds of "only" 300MB/s or 12,000 IOPS renders it useless for a boot drive. It's still overkill for most OS-related purposes.

 

[Octopuss]

Because 300MB is a joke for a SSD. It's not 2005 anymore. With that speed it should cost half as much, I would say.

 

[i386]

300 MByte/s @ 1qd & 1t would be pretty impressive (and outperforming the 905p )

 

[piperfect]

Has anyone been able to boot to a Kingston DC1000B using a PCIe adapter on a Dell R730? Samsung 983 DCT drives work just fine. Does it not conform to the Human Interface Infrastructure? That seems odd on a drive that is sold as a boot drive.

 

[piperfect]

I know this is super old, but I want to give credit to Kingston support. I sent them to Kingston shortly after this post and they sent me check for the cost of the drives I had. I don't think I have ever had a support person cut me a check because their product didn't do what it was supposed to. .... probably because Dell was doing Dell things.