Kingston Digital DC2000B PCIe 4.0 NVMe Up to 960GB M.2 SSD for Data Center Environments

Kingston Digital, Inc., the flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., announced its latest data center SSD, DC2000B, a PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD optimized for use in high-volume rack-mount servers as an internal boot drive.

Using the Gen 4×4 PCIe interface with 112-layer 3D TLC NAND, DC2000B is for internal server boot drive applications as well for use in purpose built systems applications where higher performance and reliability are required. DC2000B includes on-board hardware-based power loss protection (PLP), a data protection feature not commonly found on M.2 SSDs. It also includes an integrated aluminum heatsink that helps to ensure broad thermal compatibility across a wide variety of system designs.

“Whitebox server makers and tier-1 server OEMs continue to equip their latest generation servers with M.2 sockets for boot purposes as well as internal data caching,” said Cameron Crandall, enterprise SSD business manager. “DC2000B was designed to deliver the necessary performance and write endurance to handle a variety of high duty cycle server workloads. Bringing the boot drives internal to the server preserves the valuable front loading drive bays for data storage.”

DC2000B is available in 240, 480, and 960GB capacities ⁽¹⁾ and is backed by a limited 5-year warranty, free technical support and Kingston reliability.

DC2000B PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD features and specs

PCIe 4.0 NVMe Performance: Utilizes PCIe Gen 4×4 lanes for high-performance speeds.
On-board Power Loss Protection (PLP): Reduce the possibility of data loss and/or corruption due to unexpected power-off.
Low Latency and IOs Consistency: Firmware optimized to deliver low latency and IO consistency for high duty cycle workloads.
Designed for Data Center Environments: Optimized to meet the demands of Server boot applications with low latency and IO consistency as the key design criteria.
Form Factor: M.2 2280
Interface: PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe
Capacities ⁽¹⁾: 240, 480, 960GB
NAND: 3D TLC

Sequential RW speeds:

240GB – 4,500/400 MB/s
480GB – 7,000/800 MB/s
960GB – 7,000/1,300 MB/s

Steady-State 4k RW ⁽²⁾:

240GB – 260,000/18,000 IO/s
480GB – 530,000/320,00 IO/s
960GB – 540,000/47,000 IO/s

Total Bytes Written (TBW) ⁽³⁾:

240GB – 175TBW
480GB – 350TBW
960GB – 700TBW

Latency Read (Avg): 240GB – 960GB; 70µs

Latency Write (Avg):

240GB – 53µs
480GB – 29µs
960GB – 20µs

Power-Loss Protection (Power Caps): Yes

Enterprise SMART tools: Reliability tracking, usage statistics, SSD life remaining, wear leveling, temperature

Endurance:

240GB — (0.4 DWPD/5yrs) ⁽⁴⁾
480GB — (0.4 DWPD/5yrs) ⁽⁴⁾
960GB — (0.4 DWPD/5yrs) ⁽⁴⁾

Power consumption:

240GB: average read: 2.97W average write: 4.02W
max read: 3.01W max write: 4.09W
480GB: average read: 3.22W average write: 5.60W
max read: 3.29W max write: 5.77W
960GB: average read: 3.26W average write: 7.36W
max read: 3.36W max write: 7.80W

Storage temperature: -40°C ~ 85°C

Operating temperature: 0°C ~ 70°C

Dimensions: 80x22x8.3mm

Weight:

240GB – 9g
480GB – 10g
960GB – 11g

Vibration non-operating: 20G peak (10–2,000Hz)

MTBF: 2 million hours

Warranty/support ⁽⁵⁾: Limited 5-year warranty with free technical support

⁽¹⁾ Some of the listed capacity on a flash storage device is used for formatting and other functions and thus is not available for data storage. As such, the actual available capacity for data storage is less than what is listed on the products. For more information, go to Kingston’s Flash Guide.
⁽²⁾ Measurement taken once the workload has reached steady state but including all background activities required for normal operation and data reliability.
⁽³⁾ Total Bytes Written (TBW) is derived from the JEDEC Client Workload (JESD219A).
⁽⁴⁾ Drives Writes Per Day (DWPD) derived from the JEDEC Enterprise Workload (JESD219A).
⁽⁵⁾ Limited warranty based on 5 years or ‘Percentage Used’ which can be found using the Kingston SSD Manager . For NVMe SSDs, a new unused product will show a Percentage Used value of 0, whereas a product that reaches its warranty limit will show a Percentage Used value of greater than or equal to one hundred (100). See Kingston.com/wa for detail.