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While Computex is happening today, Kingston announced their brand new KC1000 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD ahead of time. The Kingston KC1000 does offer something special for those who are willing to pay the price for it – and here’s what it does. The Kingston KC1000 however, has a Phison PS5007-E7 controller with MLC NAND flash.

Kingston KC1000
Reason why we use the same image: all M.2 SSDs look pretty much the same, other than the sticker on it.

As for the rated read and write speeds, the Kingston KC1000’s 240GB variant can go up to 2700/900MB/s for read/write speeds, whereas the 480GB and 960GB can go up to a speedy 2700/1600MB/s read/write speeds. That’s seriously insane. Comes with a full 5-year warranty by Kingston too!

With more and more storage manufacturers bringing in NVMe SSDs into the market, I can see that they’re pretty much gaining more mainstream attention now. However, they’re still way too expensive, and demand for NAND flash chips are at an all-time high now to the point that it affected RAM prices. Which is weird, because I have no idea why Toshiba’s Flash Memory business is having trouble now.

Here’s the full list of specs from Kingston themselves.

Kingston KC1000 NVMe PCIe SSD Features and Specifications:

  • Form Factor: M.2 2280
  • Interface: NVMe PCIe Gen 3.0 x4 Lanes
  • Capacities: 240GB, 480GB, 960GB
  • Controller: Phison PS5007-E7
  • NAND: MLC
  • Sequential Read/Write:
    • 240GB: up to 2700/900MB/s
    • 480GB, 960GB: up to 2700/1600MB/s
  • Maximum 4K Read/Write:
    • 240GB: up to 225,000/190,000 IOPS
    • 480GB, 960GB: up to 290,000/190,000 IOPS
  • Random 4K Read/Write:
    • 240GB, 480GB: up to 190,000/160,000 IOPS
    • 960GB: up to 190,000/165,000 IOPS
  • PCMARK®Vantage HDD Suite Score: 150,000
  • Total Bytes Written (TBW):
    • 240GB: 300TB and .70 DWPD
    • 480GB: 550TB and .64 DWPD
    • 960GB: 1PB and .58 DWPD
  • Power Consumption: .11W Idle / .99W Avg / 4.95W (MAX) Read / 7.40W (MAX) Write
  • Storage Temperature: -40°C to 85°C
  • Operating Temperature: 0°C to 70°C
  • Dimensions:
    • 80mm x 22mm x 3.5mm (M.2)
    • 180.98mm x 120.96mm x 21.59mm (with HHHL AIC – standard bracket)
    • 181.29mm x 80.14mm x 23.40mm (with HHHL AIC – low-profile bracket)
  • Weight:
    • 10g (M.2)
    • 76g (with HHHL AIC – standard bracket)
    • 69g (with HHHL AIC – low-profile bracket)
  • Vibration operating: 17G Peak (7-800Hz)
  • Vibration non-operating: 20G Peak (20-1000Hz)
  • MTBF: 2,000,000
  • Warranty/support: Limited 5-year warranty with free technical support
KC1000 NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD Part Numbers
Part Number Capacity
SKC1000/240G 240GB
SKC1000H/240G HHHL (Add-In Card) 240GB
SKC1000/480G 480GB
SKC1000H/480G HHHL (Add-In Card) 480GB
SKC1000/960G 960GB
SKC1000H/960G HHHL (Add-In Card) 960GB

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