{"id":31745,"date":"2018-04-27T18:07:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T10:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=31745"},"modified":"2018-04-27T18:07:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T10:07:40","slug":"kingston-introduces-entry-level-nvme-pcie-ssd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/04\/27\/kingston-introduces-entry-level-nvme-pcie-ssd\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingston introduces entry-level NVMe PCIe SSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv0155275880MsoNormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Kingston, a player in memory products and technology solutions, announced the A1000 PCIe NVMe\u00a0SSD. The M.2 drive is Kingston\u2019s first entry-level consumer-grade PCIe NVMe SSD utilizing 3D NAND. A1000 delivers twice the performance of SATA at near SATA pricing.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Kingston-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31746\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Kingston-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Kingston-1.jpg 642w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Kingston-1-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0155275880MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The single-sided M.2 2280 (22mm x 80mm) form factor makes A1000 ideal for notebooks and systems with limited space. The<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">PCIe NVMe drive features a Gen 3.0 x2 interface, 4-channel Phison 5008 controller, and 3D NAND Flash. It delivers\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">2x the performance of SATA SSDs with read\/write speeds<sup>1<\/sup>\u00a0up to 1500MB\/s and 1000MB\/s giving it exceptional responsiveness and ultra-low latency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0155275880MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">As Kingston\u2019s<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0newest SSD for the entry-level PCIe NVMe market<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">, A1000 is d<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">esigned with 3D NAND Flash memory<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">. It<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0is more reliable and durable than a hard drive, and doubles the performance of a SATA SSD<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">, providing<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0consumers the benefit of PCIe performance at about the same price as SATA<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Consumers can replace a hard drive or slower SSD with A1000 and have the storage needed for applications, videos, photos and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0155275880MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A1000 is available in 240GB, 480GB and 960GB\u00a0capacities and is backed by a limited five-year warranty, free technical support and legendary Kingston reliability.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kingston, a player in memory products and technology solutions, announced the A1000 PCIe NVMe\u00a0SSD. The M.2 drive is Kingston\u2019s first entry-level consumer-grade PCIe NVMe SSD utilizing 3D NAND. A1000 delivers twice the performance of SATA at near SATA pricing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":31746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5984,5983,4836,714,96],"class_list":["post-31745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-a1000-pcie-nvme-ssd","tag-drive","tag-kingston","tag-ssd","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}