Kingston UV400 - didn't expect that one.

[VirtualLarry]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820242257&ignorebbr=1

I picked up a few Kingston UV300 240GB TLC SSDs from Antonline via ebay a little while ago.

After they showed up there, Newegg started showing a listing, "Coming Soon".

Well, the UV300 drives are still Coming Soon, but now Newegg is showing a listing, in-stock, for a UV400 drive. It has a fairly plain metal (?) exterior, with a simple Kingston logo on it. Not their usual sticker.

Kind of curious what the difference between the UV300 and UV400 is. Both appear to be TLC.

UV300 has a a Phison S10 controller, from a review I read.

 

[UsandThem]

It looks like the UV400 has already launched in the UK and Australia.

http://www.techworld.com.au/mediareleases/27375/kingston-ships-new-uv400-ssd/

Performance looks good for a budget drive (at least based on paper specs). 3 year warranty on them (same as Sandisk Ultra II I believe, but a year less than the surprisingly good PNY CS2211).

It will depend on what they are priced at. A lot of times these budget drives are priced too close to 850 EVOs which have longer warranties and are the drive to compete with in this price segment.

Edit: I see they are launching at $116.99 for a 480 GB. I guess I'll wait for some reviews and if Newegg or Amazon have a flash sale, I'd try one if it hit the $100 range.

 

[VirtualLarry]

http://www.techworld.com.au/mediareleases/27375/kingston-ships-new-uv400-ssd/

UV400 Features and Specifications:
• Form factor: 2.5"
• Interface: SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s) – with backwards compatibility to SATA Rev. 2.0 (3Gb/s)
• Capacities2: 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, 960GB
• Controller: Marvell 88SS1074
• NAND: TLC
• Baseline Performance1:
Data Transfer (ATTO)
120GB — up to 550MB/s Read and 350MB/s Write
240GB — up to 550MB/s Read and 490MB/s Write
480GB — up to 550MB/s Read and 500MB/s Write
960GB — up to 540MB/s Read and 500MB/s Write
Maximum Random 4k Read/Write (IOMETER)
120GB — up to 90,000 IOPS and 15,000 IOPS
240GB — up to 90,000 IOPS and 25,000 IOPS
480GB — up to 90,000 IOPS and 35,000 IOPS
960GB — up to 90,000 IOPS and 50,000 IOPS
• Power Consumption
0.672W Idle / 0.693W Avg / 0.59W (MAX) Read / 2.515W (MAX) Write
• Storage temperature: -40°C~85°C
• Operating temperature: 0°C~70°C
• Dimensions: 100.0mm x 69.9mm x 7.0mm
• Weight: 57 g
• Vibration operating: 2.17G Peak (7–800Hz)
• Vibration non-operating: 20G Peak (10–2000Hz)
• Life expectancy: 1 million hours MTBF
• Warranty/support3: Limited 3-year warranty with free technical support
• Total Bytes Written (TBW)4:
120GB: 50TB
240GB: 100TB
480GB: 200TB
960GB: 400TB


Hmm, Marvell TLC controller. Should be interesting.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

UV400 Features and Specifications:
• Form factor: 2.5"
• Interface: SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s) – with backwards compatibility to SATA Rev. 2.0 (3Gb/s)
• Capacities2: 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, 960GB
• Controller: Marvell 88SS1074
• NAND: TLC
• Baseline Performance1:
Data Transfer (ATTO)
120GB — up to 550MB/s Read and 350MB/s Write
240GB — up to 550MB/s Read and 490MB/s Write
480GB — up to 550MB/s Read and 500MB/s Write
960GB — up to 540MB/s Read and 500MB/s Write
Maximum Random 4k Read/Write (IOMETER)
120GB — up to 90,000 IOPS and 15,000 IOPS
240GB — up to 90,000 IOPS and 25,000 IOPS
480GB — up to 90,000 IOPS and 35,000 IOPS
960GB — up to 90,000 IOPS and 50,000 IOPS
• Power Consumption
0.672W Idle / 0.693W Avg / 0.59W (MAX) Read / 2.515W (MAX) Write
• Storage temperature: -40°C~85°C
• Operating temperature: 0°C~70°C
• Dimensions: 100.0mm x 69.9mm x 7.0mm
• Weight: 57 g
• Vibration operating: 2.17G Peak (7–800Hz)
• Vibration non-operating: 20G Peak (10–2000Hz)
• Life expectancy: 1 million hours MTBF
• Warranty/support3: Limited 3-year warranty with free technical support
• Total Bytes Written (TBW)4:
120GB: 50TB
240GB: 100TB
480GB: 200TB
960GB: 400TB


Hmm, Marvell TLC controller. Should be interesting.

Meh. It will be profoundly UNinteresting, differing from other cheap planar TLC drives by a few percentage points here or there, but only justifying its existence the end by being cheap.

 

[Brado78]

After Samsung's released it's 750 evo's, The only benefit that other SSD manufactures have over them is capacity. TLC is the new Norm in NAND...didn't you hear

 

[cbn]

Meh. It will be profoundly UNinteresting, differing from other cheap planar TLC drives by a few percentage points here or there, but only justifying its existence the end by being cheap.

Outside of the typical benchmarking, I do wonder if this drive would be one that suffers from Read degradation?

 

[taisingera]

One thing about SSD I don't like is the TBW. If you buy a smaller drive you are basically locking in a set amount of time you can use it. Only by buying a larger drive (not necessarily needing it) do you get more usage time assuming you use the two drives similarly. With HDD I could get a 320 GB or 4 TB and both could last equally as long. SSDs feel very much like subscription software in this regard. Pay more and you can use it for longer.

 

[Brado78]

compared to HDD's SSD's are still in their infancy.. There is A lot they don't know or aren't telling us...:/, I only use my SSD for the OS, and a HDD for everything else...Hard Drives will be around for a long time still, primarily for archival storage only...it really wouldn't make sense to spend thousands on ssd just for that purpose.

 

[hojnikb]

One thing about SSD I don't like is the TBW. If you buy a smaller drive you are basically locking in a set amount of time you can use it. Only by buying a larger drive (not necessarily needing it) do you get more usage time assuming you use the two drives similarly. With HDD I could get a 320 GB or 4 TB and both could last equally as long. SSDs feel very much like subscription software in this regard. Pay more and you can use it for longer.

SSDs easily outlast rated TBW a few times over.

 

[Brado78]

I have a Sandisk Ultra II and it is a TLC and had it for 6 months and so far so good. TLC was faulty at first with the 840 evo. I personally don't think there was a lot of time spent on R&D when they launched TLC drives. Improvements are continuously made to TLC as the next drive comes out, As I said TLC is the new NAND, because it is cheaper to make just as is asynchronous NAND is... so make piece with it ...

 

[hojnikb]

I have a Sandisk Ultra II and it is a TLC and had it for 6 months and so far so good. TLC was faulty at first with the 840 evo. I personally don't think there was a lot of time spent on R&D when they launched TLC drives. Improvements are continuously made to TLC as the next drive comes out, As I said TLC is the new NAND, because it is cheaper to make just as is asynchronous NAND is... so make piece with it ...

Or wait for 3D tlc