Kingston Releases Entry-level UV300 SSD in India

Kingston, today, announced the release of the ultra-value UV300 solid-state drive (SSD) in India. It is Kingston’s first SSD to use TLC (triple-level cell) NAND to provide speed and performance at the best possible price. The new UV300 SSD is now available in 120GB, 240GB and 480GB capacities at MRPs of Rs. 3700, Rs. 6,500 and Rs. 12,700 respectively.

UV300 SSD is powered by the Phison S10 quad-core controller for optimized performance and endurance and boasts of read speeds of up to 550MB/s and write speeds up to 510MB/s.

This new SSD is backed by a three-year limited warranty, free technical support from Kingston.

Kingston UV300 SSD Features & Specifications:

• Form factor: 5″
• Interface: SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s) – with backwards compatibility to SATA Rev. 2.0 (3Gb/s)
• Capacities¹: 120GB, 240GB, 480GB
• Controller: Phison S10
• Baseline Performance:

Compressible Data Transfer (ATTO)
120GB — 550MB/s Read and 350MB/s Write
240GB — 550MB/s Read and 490MB/s Write
480GB — 550MB/s Read and 510MB/s Write

Incompressible Data Transfer (AS-SSD and CrystalDiskMark)
120GB — 505MB/s Read and 280MB/s Write
240GB — 510MB/s Read and 445MB/s Write
480GB — 510MB/s Read and 495MB/s Write

IOMETER Maximum Random 4k Read/Write
120GB — 95,000 IOPS and 13,000 IOPS
240GB — 95,000 IOPS and 20,000 IOPS
480GB — 95,000 IOPS and 26,000 IOPS

Random 4k Read/Write
120GB — 64,000 IOPS and 12,000 IOPS
240GB — 81,000 IOPS and 18,000 IOPS
480GB — 81,000 IOPS and 25,000 IOPS

PCMARK^® Vantage HDD Suite Score
120GB, 240GB, 480GB — 81,000

PCMARK^® 8 Storage Bandwidth
120GB — 145MB/s
240GB and 480GB — 165MB/s

PCMARK^® 8 Storage Score
120GB — 4,805
240GB and 480GB — 4,860

Anvil Total Score (Incompressible Workload)
120GB — 2,600
240GB — 2,950
480GB — 3,740

• Power Consumption: 1W Idle / 0.36W Avg / 1.26W (MAX) Read / 4.14W (MAX) Write
• Storage temperature: -40°C~85°C
• Operating temperature: 0°C~70°C
• Dimensions: 0mm x 69.9mm x 7.0mm
• Weight: 120GB, 240GB, 480GB — 52g
• Vibration operating: 17G Peak (7–800Hz)
• Vibration non-operating: 20G Peak (10–2000Hz)
• Life expectancy: 1 million hours MTBF
• Warranty/support: 3-year limited warranty with free technical support
• Total Bytes Written (TBW)³:
  120GB: 60TB
  240GB: 120TB
  480GB: 240TB

We will bring a review of the UV 300 SSD as soon as we get our hands on it!