Kingston's V310 value SSD rated for 2.7PB of writes

Stefan Mileschin · 23rd July 2014, 09:13

Kingston's latest SSD is a little unusual. The SSDNow V310 is based on Phison's 3108 controller, which is a fairly uncommon. And, instead of being available in a range of capacities, it's limited to 960GB. Then there's the kicker: despite being billed as a value-oriented consumer drive, the V310 is rated to withstand 2.7 petabytes of total writes. That's the sort of endurance we'd expect from an enterprise-grade SSD.

The spec doesn't appear to be a typo, either. Kingston claims the V310 is good for 2.65 drive writes per day, which works out to 2.7PB over the length of the three-year warranty. Also, it recently introduced a ...

http://techreport.com/news/26811/kin...-7pb-of-writes

23rd July 2014, 09:13	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,597	Kingston's V310 value SSD rated for 2.7PB of writes Kingston's latest SSD is a little unusual. The SSDNow V310 is based on Phison's 3108 controller, which is a fairly uncommon. And, instead of being available in a range of capacities, it's limited to 960GB. Then there's the kicker: despite being billed as a value-oriented consumer drive, the V310 is rated to withstand 2.7 petabytes of total writes. That's the sort of endurance we'd expect from an enterprise-grade SSD. The spec doesn't appear to be a typo, either. Kingston claims the V310 is good for 2.65 drive writes per day, which works out to 2.7PB over the length of the three-year warranty. Also, it recently introduced a ... http://techreport.com/news/26811/kin...-7pb-of-writes

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