Kingston Digital Launches New DC600M Data Center SSD for Mixed-Use Workloads

[btarunr]

Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, today announced its new DC600M Enterprise SSD. DC600M is optimized for mixed-use workloads with excellent Quality of Service (QoS)1 to ensure latency and IOPS consistency to hit Service-level agreements.

DC600M is 6 Gbps SATA 3.0 storage with 3D TLC NAND, suited for use in high-volume rack-mount servers. The drive includes hardware based on-board power loss protection via power loss capacitors to protect data against unexpected power failure reducing the risk of data loss, and ensures the drive successfully re-initializes on the next system power-up. With predictable low latencies over a wide range of read and write workloads DC600M is designed for system integrators, hyperscale data centers, and cloud service providers.



"Quality of Service in an enterprise SSD is critical as data centers and workloads demand stability and low latency for predictable storage performance levels to meet strict customer SLAs," said Keith Schimmenti, enterprise SSD business manager, Kingston. "In addition, DC600M is AES 256-bit encrypted making it the optimal data center storage solution when you combine its enterprise-class reliability and strict QoS requirements along with Kingston's legendary sales support."

The DC600M data center SSD is available in 480 GB, 960 GB, 1920 GB, 3840 GB, and 7680 GB capacities.

DC600M Data Center SSD Features & Specifications:

• Hardware-based PLP: Power loss capacitors to protect user data against unexpected power loss and enhance performance.
• Delivers excellent Quality of Service (QoS)1: Optimized performance predictability to hit Service-level agreements (SLAs).
• AES 256-bit encryption: Built in protection to safeguard important data.
• Capacities up to 7680GB2: Upgrade and manage storage with capacities up to 7680 GB.
• Form factor: 2.5 Inch
• Interface: SATA Rev. 3.0 (6 Gb/s) - with backwards compatibility to SATA Rev. 2.0 (3 Gb/s)
• Capacities: 480 GB, 960 GB, 1920 GB, 3840 GB, 7680 GB
• NAND: 3D TLC
• Sequential Read/Write:
• 480 GB - 560MBs/470MBs
• 960 GB - 560MBs/530MBs
• 1920 GB - 560MBs/530MBs
• 3840 GB - 560MBs/530MBs
• 7680 GB - 560MBs/530MBs
• Steady State 4K Random Read/Write:
• 480 GB - 94,000/41,000 IOPS
• 960 GB - 94,000/65,000 IOPS
• 1920 GB - 94,000/78,000 IOPS
• 3840 GB - 94,000/59,000 IOPS
• 7680 GB - 94,000/34,000 IOPS
• Quality of Service (Latency)3,4,5 (99.999) Read/Write:
• 480 GB - 180/110 uSec
• 960 GB - 3840 GB - 200/300 uSec
• 7680 GB - 240/170 uSec
• Typical Latency - Read/Write: <200 µs / 0 us3,4,5
• Hot-Plug Capable
• Static and Dynamic Wear Leveling
• Enterprise SMART tools: Reliability tracking, usage statistics, life remaining, wear leveling, temperature
• Endurance:
• 480 GB - 876TBW, 1 DWPD (5 years)7, 1.66 DWPD (3 years)7
• 960 GB - 1752 TBW, 1 DWPD (5 years)7, 1.66 DWPD (3 years)7
• 1920 GB - 3504 TBW, 1 DWPD (5 years)7, 1.66 DWPD (3 years)7
• 3840 GB - 7008 TBW, 1 DWPD (5 years)7, 1.66 DWPD (3 years)7
• 7680 GB - 14016 TBW, 1 DWPD (5 years)7, 1.66 DWPD (3 years)7
• Power consumption:
• Idle: 1.30 W
• Average: 1.45 W
• Max Read: 1.6 W
• Max Write: 3.6 W
• Storage temperature: -40°C ~ 85°C
• Operating temperature: 0°C ~ 70°C
• Dimensions: 69.9 mm x 100 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 92.34 g
• Vibration operating: 2.17G Peak (7-800 Hz)
• Vibration non-operating: 20G Peak (10-2000 Hz)
• MTBF: 2 million hours
• UBER: ≤10 -17
• Warranty/support: Limited 5-year warranty with free technical support

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[lemonadesoda]

I wonder what the pricing of these are. I'd choose those even at small premium to reduce the risk of data loss. My power is dodgy and unpredictable. Washing machine AND cooker AND microwave AND drier at the same time can take down a single phase on our 3-phase supply, taking down all 3-phases. Even though the PC equipment is on a different phase, when the breaker goes, it goes!

Power Loss Prevention - I wonder how many seconds of power is needed. Probably not more than a couple of seconds to finish writing what is currently in progress within the SSD DRAM buffer, and get anything that is in the write cache quickly out to the SSD. It is a shame that not ALL SSDs have this feature. It can't be expensive to implement.

Note: Doesnt protect data loss from what is in the PC/Windows DDR RAM buffer/cache but not yet committed to the SSD RAM buffer/cache.

 

[evernessince]

I wonder what the pricing of these are. I'd choose those even at small premium to reduce the risk of data loss. My power is dodgy and unpredictable. Washing machine AND cooker AND microwave AND drier at the same time can take down a single phase on our 3-phase supply, taking down all 3-phases. Even though the PC equipment is on a different phase, when the breaker goes, it goes!

Power Loss Prevention - I wonder how many seconds of power is needed. Probably not more than a couple of seconds to finish writing what is currently in progress within the SSD DRAM buffer, and get anything that is in the write cache quickly out to the SSD. It is a shame that not ALL SSDs have this feature. It can't be expensive to implement.

Note: Doesnt protect data loss from what is in the PC/Windows DDR RAM buffer/cache but not yet committed to the SSD RAM buffer/cache.

This is an enterprise SSD and this kind of feature is common among them. If you are looking for power loss related data protection, typically you can find data center drives for cheaper than consumer drives when looking at drives larger than 2TB. I recommend staying away from SATA drives though, as they are usually significantly more expensive than NVMe drives and slower. Just for comparison, an 7.68 TB SATA SSD will run you around $650 - $800 whereas a U.2 drive will run you $500 or less.

 

[lemonadesoda]

@evernessince , thanks for your comment. Yes, NVMe is the way to go with compatible mainboard platforms for desktop/workstation. But for existing NAS equipment, SATA or SAS is still a product of choice.

 

[Wirko]

• Typical Latency - Read/Write: <200 µs / 0 us3,4,5

We'd all love if read latency was like that too.

This is an enterprise SSD and this kind of feature is common among them.

True, and it confuses me. In a datacenter, power is never supposed to go down (unless it's a planned event). And if it does, I'm sure there are far greate worries than a few second's worth of written data getting lost.

Power Loss Prevention - I wonder how many seconds of power is needed. Probably not more than a couple of seconds to finish writing what is currently in progress within the SSD DRAM buffer, and get anything that is in the write cache quickly out to the SSD. It is a shame that not ALL SSDs have this feature. It can't be expensive to implement.

What would you gain? If you had a magic power to delay any power failure in your house by a couple of seconds, but still didn't have the ability to predict when exactly it was going to occur, how could you use that to make your data safe?