

The exterior casing is matte black is made of good quality aluminium, measures 100.1mm x 69.9mm x 7mm and weighs 92.34g. The DC500R is a 2.5-inch standard format SATA 3 SSD with 7 mm thickness and is also compatible with laptops that support SATA SSDs. Inside, we have the just the SSD, no manuals or mounting screws. The packaging comes in a simple cardboard box with a see-through plastic blister. Reliability tracking, usage statistics, life remaining, wear leveling, temperature 3.0 (6Gb/s) – with backwards capability to SATA Rev 2.0 (3Gb/s)

Naturally, the drive is hot-plug capable as it needs to be in a data centre environment.

Other features enterprise SMART tools which allow reliability tracking, usage statistics, life remaining, wear levelling, and temperature monitoring. Kingston DC500R uses the 3D TLC NAND technology and offers a maximum read and write speed of 555 / 525MB / s using SATA 3.0 interface. In terms of durability the DC500R offers 1752TBW on the 2TB unit and 2,000,000-hour MTBF. The DC500R comes with hardware-based security and encryption using 256-bit ensuring the integrity and privacy of data. They can increase productivity for AI, machine learning, big data analytics, cloud computing, software-defined storage, operational databases (ODB), database applications and data warehousing. The DC500R features Kingston’s strict QoS requirements to ensure predictable random I/O performance, as well as predictable low latencies over a wide range of read and write workloads. The Kingston DC500R is a high-performance 6Gbps SATA SSD that use the latest 3D TLC NAND, designed for read-centric server workloads in data centres.
