Description, Specifications for Kingston DC500 2.5" SATA upto 7.68TB Up to 555MB/s read, 525MB/s write
- Optimized for read-intensive applications
- Endurance at 0.5 DWPD
- Consistent IOPS, reliable QoS and low latency
- Configurable over-provisioning
- On-board Power Loss Protection (PLP)
DC500 2.5" Enterprise SSD
6GBps SATA SSD for Read-Centric and Mixed-Use Drives
Data Center 500 Series
Kingstons Data Center 500 (DC500R / DC500M) Series of solid-state drives are high performance 6Gbps SATA SSDs using the latest 3D TLC NAND, designed for Read Centric and Mixed-Use server workloads. They implement Kingstons strict QoS requirements to ensure predictable random I/O performance as well as predictable low latencies over a wide range of read and write workloads. They can increase productivities within AI, machine learning, big data analytics, cloud computing, software-defined storage, operational databases (ODB), database applications, and data warehousing. Capacities from 480GB, 960GB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB1
Enterprise Data Center SSD
Delivering on business demands for 24/7 uptime and reliability, Kingston Enterprise SSDs offer performance storage that combines performance predictability as well as rigorously tested reliability. Kingstons DC500 Series SSDs offer features that enable data centers to select the most cost effective SSD for their workload(s). Businesses require results as they deliver on products, solutions and service level agreements (SLAs). Kingstons DC500 Series SSDs are designed to deliver on these expectations.
DC500R: Read-centric SSD
DC500R is a highly optimized SSD designed for read-centric workloads enabling data centers to select SSDs tailored for workloads without overspending on more expensive write intensive SSDs. It delivers I/O speeds and response times (latency) that a data center can deploy with confidence to ensure high levels of performance in the working application and downstream at the user interface. These are typically defined by applications requiring real-time results. Serving large amounts of data, delivering responsive results from a variety of databases and web-based applications can leverage the receptive performance of the DC500R.
DC500M: Mixed-use SSD
DC500M is powerful SSD designed for mixed-use workload applications where the demand has a more balanced mix of read and write operations. It delivers greater write endurance over a wide range of workloads all while maintaining the strict performance consistency requirements designed into all of Kingstons Data center SSDs. Data centers hosting databases and various web-based applications can leverage the predictable I/O and latency performance while controlling infrastructure costs.
End-to-end Protection
The DC500 Series SSDs incorporate end-to-end data path protection to help guarantee that all user data transferred into the SSD is protected against transient errors. DC500R / DC500M both include on-board (PLP) power loss protection (via power capacitors and firmware). This ensures data-in-flight is written to the NAND Flash memory in the event of unexpected power loss. Additionally, PLP ensures that the drives mapping table (FTL) is updated prior to power being removed from the drive. These power loss safeguards reduce the chance for data loss and ensure that the drive will successfully re-initialize on the next power-up of the system.
Quality of Service (QoS)
The DC500 Series delivers on QoS2 3 4 with consistency, predictability of latency (response time) and IOPS (IOs Per Second) performance while servicing balanced read and write workloads. Performance predictability is essential for web hosting applications that must deliver on SLAs promised to customers. The DC500 series efficiency produces the reliability for web server applications requiring read centric drives or mixed-use intensive workloads where uptime is mission critical.
Application use cases
Designed for service providers running a wide range of customer applications including:
- Virtualization
- High-speed databases
- High bandwidth media streaming
- SQL server reporting services (SSRS)
- SAP
- BI, ERP, CRM, GL, OLAP, OLTP, ERM and EDW workloads
- Cloud Service Providers
Both DC500R and DC500M feature enterprise-class reliability with end-to-end data path protection, SMART health monitoring and strong ECC. They are backed by legendary pre and post-sales support along with a five-year limited warranty.
- Predictable random I/O performance and latencies over a wide range of workloads
- Mixed-use design for balanced performance in high read / write intensive workloads (DC500M)
- On-board (PLP) power loss
- Read-centric design for performance in high read intensive workloads (DC500R)
- Configurable over-provisioning
Form factor | 2.5" |
Interface | SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s) with backwards compatibility to SATA Rev. 2.0 (3Gb/s) |
Capacities1 | 480GB, 960GB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB |
NAND | 3D TLC |
Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) | AES 256-bit Encryption |
Sequential Read/Write (DC500R) | 480GB 555MBs/500MBs 960GB 555MBs/525MBs 1.92TB 555MBs/525MBs 3.84TB 555MBs/520MBs |
Steady-State 4k Read/Write: (DC500R) | 480GB 98,000/12,000 IOPS 960GB 98,000/20,000 IOPS 1.92TB 98,000/24,000 IOPS 3.84TB 98,000/28,000 IOPS |
Sequential Read/Write: (DC500M) | 480GB 555MBs/520MBs 960GB 555MBs/520MBs 1.92TB 555MBs/520MBs 3.84TB 555MBs/520MBs |
Steady State 4k Random Read/Write: (DC500M) | 480GB 98,000/58,000 IOPS 960GB 98,000/70,000 IOPS 1.92TB 98,000/75,000 IOPS 3.84TB 98,000/75,000 IOPS |
Quality of Service (Latency)2,3,4 | - TYP Read/Write: <500 µs / <2 ms |
Hot-Plug Capable | |
Static and Dynamic Wear Leveling | |
Enterprise SMART tools | Reliability tracking, usage statistics, life remaining, wear leveling, temperature |
Endurance | DC500R: 480GB 438TBW6 (0.5 DWPD)7 960GB 876TBW6 (0.5 DWPD)7 1.92TB 1752TBW6 (0.5 DWPD)7 3.84TB 3504TBW6 (0.5 DWPD)7 D500M: 480GB 1139TBW6 (1.3 DWPD)7 960GB 2278TBW6 (1.3 DWPD)7 1.92TB 4555TBW6 (1.3 DWPD)7 3.84TB 9110TBW6 (1.3 DWPD)7 |
Power Consumption: | Idle: 1.56W Average: 1.6W Max Read: 1.8W Max Write: 4.86W |
Storage temperature | -40°C ~ 85°C |
Operating temperature | 0°C ~ 70°C |
Dimensions | 69.9mm x 100mm x 7mm |
Weight | 92.34g |
Vibration operating | 2.17G Peak (7800Hz) |
Vibration non-operating | 20G Peak (102000Hz) |
MTBF | 2 million hours |
Warranty/support5 | Limited 5-year warranty with free technical support |