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Kingston enters SSD market, targeting enterprise servers and notebooks

Josephine Lien, Taipei; Jessie Shen, DIGITIMES Asia

Memory module maker Kingston Technology recently announced its entry in the solid-state drive (SSD) market. The products reportedly will be marketed in a a co-branding partnership with Intel. The company has introduced the SSDNow E and SSDNow M series – the former designed for enterprise servers and the latter for the corporate notebook applications, according to the company.

Kingston: SSD specifications

Item

Description

Max read/Write speed

Life expectancy

SSDNow E

32GB 2.5-inch SATA SSD

250/170 MB/sec

2 million hours

SSDNow M

80GB 2.5-inch SATA SSD

250/70 MB/sec

1.2 million hours

Source: Company, compiled by Digitimes, January 2009

Kingston enters SSD market

Kingston SSDs for servers and business notebooks
Photo: Company