The Predator will ship in AHCI mode. Kingston expects to deliver NVMe support (lower overhead communication protocol rather than just running the SATA protocol over PCIe) via a firmware update before the end of the year. The upcoming Haswell E platform (due out around September) may coincide w...
The standard V+ is gone and replaced by the new V+ 100, which is what we're here to take a look at today. This drive uses the T6UG1XBG controller but with updated firmware. The new firmware enables two things: very aggressive OS-independent garbage collection and higher overall performan...
Many are also ensuring that should everything else fail in the chain, there are power-fail (PFail) capacitors (P-Cap) also labeled as power-loss-protection (PLP) installed on SSDs and DRAM. P-Caps allow drives (either independent or across an array) to complete writes in-progress,...
Enterprise SSD Updates Last year, Kingston released the DC1000M, their first U.2 SSD. This year, they're replacing it with the DC1500M, a fairly straightforward update to 96L 3D TLC from Kioxia that should bring some performance and power improvements. The DC1500M will still be using ...