Kingston announced that it is shipping the UV500 family line of SSD products. Available in multiple form factors, UV500 will be Kingston’s first 3D NAND-enabled SSD featuring full-disk encryption.
UV500 is powered by the Marvell 88SS1074 controller, and combined with 3D NAND Flash, delivers incredible read/write speeds of up to 520MB/s and 500MB/s, making it 10x faster than a 7200RPM hard drive.
UV500 improves a system’s responsiveness with boot, loading and transfer times; and, with no moving parts is far less likely to fail compared to mechanical hard drives. UV500 protects data with 256-bit AES hardware-based encryption and supports TCG Opal 2.0.
It is available in three different form factors (2.5″, M.2 2280, mSATA) to accommodate any client system. UV500 is perfect as a boot drive or for primary storage as it is available in 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, 960GB and 1920GB*capacities.
UV500 family of SSDs features self-encryption to market, combining a controller, 3D NAND and data encryption in multiple form factors. It makes UV500 perfect for both consumers and enterprise users looking for a performance boost on existing systems.
UV500 is backed by a limited five-year warranty and legendary Kingston support.
