Kingston DC1000B Series Server Boot SSD Launched

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Octopuss

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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

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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.
 

piperfect

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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.