14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that Kingston has decided to start dealing in another type of solid state drives besides those for consumers and for servers or data centers, the newest collection of such drives being called SSDNow S100.
As end-users know, solid state drives have begun to gain an even greater traction on the storage market.
On the consumer and enterprise markets, they lose to hard disk drives in terms of storage capacity and price, but they have various other assets.
Basically, they are not only much faster at performing data transfers, but they have a better endurance and, since they lack moving parts, produce no noise during operation.
The enterprise market has been especially eager to take advantage of their fast read and write speeds, since access times are very important in such fields.
Now, however, Kingston thought it would do something a little different and see to the requirements of a different sector of the industry.
Essentially, it put together a collection of SSDs meant for white box builders and system integrators.
It is dubbed SSDNow S100 and is currently made up of two members, one with a capacity of 8 GB and the other with a storage space of 16 GB.
Both of them feature the SATA 3.0 Gbps interface and support different maximum read and write speeds.
The 8 GB drive can read and write at 90 MB/s and 30 MB/s, respectively, while the speeds of the 16 Gb one go to 230 MB/s and 75 MB/s.
Furthermore, the newcomers boast a MTBF of 1 million hours and support for the TRIM command, which maintains performance over time.
Full information can be found on the special page set up on Kingston's website, while prices are of 41 Euro for the 8 GB unit and 57 Euro for the 16 GB SSDNow S100.