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Pushing ever harder on the capacity boundaries of its solid-state drive (SSD) product range, Fountain Valley-based Kingston Technology has announced its new SSDNowV+ drive, which boasts a data ceiling of 256 gigabytes (GBs).
Kingston moves its SSD storage ceiling to 256GBs. Image: Kingston Technologies.
Offering higher input and output operations per second (IOPS) and faster read/write speeds than conventional hard disk drive (HDD) platforms, the V+ addition to the SSDNow line is, according to Kingston Technology, aimed at “prosumers and enterprise companies” looking to increase performance and extend the life of their existing systems.
“The SSDNowV+ is the ideal solid-state drive for power users, system builders, system integrators, and in demanding corporate environments where efficiency and performance are important as more system resources are in use,” outlined Ariel Perez, SSD business manager for Kingston.
“Users will be more productive as the drive’s higher capacities and IOPS allow for more data storage and faster boot and application load times,” he continued.
Further puffing out its chest, Kingston is keen to point out that its SSDNowV+ will allow host computer operating systems to benefit from the drive’s 4K read speeds of up to 6,300 IOPS, random 4K write speeds of up to 291 IOPS, while sequential read speeds will push 220MB/sec and write speeds will reach up to 180MB/sec.
The SSDNowV+ solid-state drive, which functions on a standard SATA interface and has no moving parts, is available now worldwide in its basic 64GB guise, while the U.S. market has access to the drive in capacity sizes of 64GBs, 128GBs and 256GBs.
The 64GB model comes attached to a recommended price tag of $254 USD, while the 128GB version costs $500 USD, and the upper-tier 256GB version will set consumers back a more pocket-testing $992 USD.
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