For Release 8:08 a.m. PDT, August 27, 2011:

Visit Kingston at VMWorld 2012 in Booth 219 South Hall

Kingston Helps Drive Big Data and Virtualization Initiatives

With New SSDNow E100 Enterprise SSD

• New Enterprise-Class SSD Drives Offer 10X Gains in Endurance and Reliability;

• Expansion of Industry Leading SSD Family From Client Through Enterprise

• Helps Organizations Maximize Database Performance, Safeguard Data and Save on Power Costs

VMWorld 2012 San Francisco, CA & Fountain Valley, CA -- August  27, 2012 -- Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced the SSDNow E100 SSD, the company’s new enterprise-class solid state drive (SSD). The new drive enables enterprises to accommodate the performance demands required in support of big data and virtualization initiatives. The new Kingston^® E100 SSD achieves up to 10X improvements in endurance and reliability over client SSDs on existing hardware, while drastically reducing the physical footprint as significantly fewer SSDs are needed to handle the tasks of many traditional hard-disk drives (HDD). 

            The performance and processing requirements required in the rapid analysis of massive data sets and large collections of virtual systems have pushed many servers far beyond their breaking point. The next generation E100 SSD provides vastly higher IOPS compared to HDDs, dramatically reducing processing bottlenecks, computer latency and physical system limitations.         

            In a recent virtualized database performance test that compared Kingston’s Enterprise SSD with traditional HDDs, the review “found that replacing a solution consisting of a server with an external chassis containing 24 HDDs with only six internal SSDs increased total database performance by up to 91.8 percent.”  The amount of power consumed “while idle and while running database workloads for both revealed that Kingston’s SSDs used up to 51.0 percent less power than the HDDs, and increased performance per watt by a staggering 184.2 percent.” 

            “Companies worldwide have come to depend on Kingston server memory for reliability and performance,” said Ariel Perez, SSD business manager, Kingston. “We are proud to introduce the SSDNow E100 enterprise-class SSD to help organizations handle such initiatives as big data and virtualized environments. The drive’s higher endurance and reliability, along with higher IOPS make it an integral part of a datacenter where uninterrupted 24/7 operation is mission critical.”

            The new enterprise-class SSDNow E100 SSD is shipping immediately and is available in 100GB, 200GB and 400GB capacities. It is backed by a three-year warranty and free technical support.

            Kingston will showcase the SSDNow E100 SSD at VMWorld in San Francisco, Calif., from August 26 to 30. Visit Kingston in Moscone Center Booth 219 South Hall.

A product video can be found here, and a database performance video here. The embedded video links, respectively, are: http://youtu.be/KumxTAEGVjk and http://youtu.be/WmOyFP0f7sM.

For more information visit please visit the SSDNow E100 website here.  

Kingston E100 SSD Features and Specifications:

• Performance: higher IOPS for multi-user environments
• Endurance: Data Integrity Protection featuring DuraClass™ Technology
• Dependable: RAISE™ for advanced data reliability
• Secure: self-encrypting drive
• Durable: DuraWrite optimizes writes to extend endurance
• Warranty/support: three-year warranty with free technical support
• Form factor: 2.5"
• Interface: SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s), SATA Rev. 2.0 (3Gb/s), SATA Rev. 1.0 (1.5Gb/s)
• Capacities¹: 100GB, 200GB, 400GB
• Sequential Reads²:

SATA Rev. 3.0 — 100GB, 200GB, & 400GB – up to 535MB/s

SATA Rev. 2.0 — 100GB, 200GB, & 400GB – up to 270MB/s

• Sequential Writes²:

SATA Rev. 3.0 — 100GB, 200GB, & 400GB – up to 500MB/s

SATA Rev. 2.0 — 100GB & 200GB - 255MB/s, 400GB – up to 260MB/s

• Sustained Random 4k Read/Write²:

100GB – 47,000/81,000 IOPS

200GB – 59,000/72,000 IOPS

400GB – 52,000/37,000 IOPS

• Maximum Random 4k Read/Write²:

100GB – 55,000/83,000 IOPS

200GB – 59,000/73,000 IOPS

400GB – 52,000/37,000 IOPS

• Enterprise SMART Tools: Reliability Tracking, Usage Statistics, Life Remaining, Wear Leveling, Temperature, Drive Life Protection
• Power Consumption:

100GB — 0.5W (TYP) Idle / 1.2W (TYP) Read / 2.7W (TYP) Write

200GB — 0.5W (TYP) Idle / 1.2W (TYP) Read / 3.1W (TYP) Write

400GB — 0.5W (TYP) Idle / 1.2W (TYP) Read / 5.0W (TYP) Write

• Dimensions: 69.9mm x 100mm x 7mm
• Weight: 96.6 grams
• Storage temperature: -40 ~ 85°C
• Operating temperature: 0 ~ 70°C
• TRIM Not supported
• MTBF: 10,000,000 Hrs
• Total Bytes Written (TBW)³:

100GB – 428TB

200GB – 857TB

400GB – 1714TB

Test System: Intel^® C600 Romley Server Platform

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 at kingston.com/flash_memory_guide.

² Based on “out-of-box performance” with IOMeter08. Speed may vary due to host hardware, software, and usage.

³ Total Bytes Written (TBW) refers to how much total data can be written to an SSD for a given workload before the drive reaches its endurance limits.

Kingston can be found on:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/kingstontechmemory

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kingstontechnology

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/kingstonhq

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/kingston

About Kingston Technology Company, Inc.

Kingston Digital, Inc. (“KDI”) is the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the world’s largest independent manufacturer of memory products. Established in 2008, KDI is headquartered in Fountain Valley, California, USA. For more information, please visit kingston.com

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Today we take a look the newest flagship router from Netgear, the R6300. The R6300 is a dual-band wireless router based on 802.11ac Wi-Fi architecture which is the latest wireless protocol working in the 5 GHz band. Netgear has a great reputation for quality networking products so we are excited to see how Netgear integrates their new Broadcom engine with the latest and greatest Wi-Fi standard.

   "The Netgear R6300 802.11ac router combines the fastest Wi-Fi speeds we have ever tested with a clever and complete user interface for ultimate control. Some may not like the footprint or aggressive shape, but we think with all the features that Netgear has outfitted the R6300 with there is no better router on the market today..."

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Thecus® Releases Cutting-Edge D16000 Dedicated for Daisy-Chaining

Taking advantage of technology for massive volume expansion!

08/23/2012- Thecus® is excited to announce a brand new unit specifically for daisy-chaining, now users have the ability to increase volume with the benefits of fast transfers and infrastructure cost savings. Below we’ll go into the concept of daisy-chaining, go into depth on the highly praised D16000 and how this innovative storage device changes the way network storage infrastructure is set up.

Innovative Thecus® D16000 characteristics

For the first time in the storage industry, daisy-chaining technology is put in place by Thecus®. At first glance, the D16000 resembles the N16000 so much that the average user likely won’t be able to tell the difference. However, the device is a total different unit, specifically the internals. First, CPU and RAM cannot be located in the interior as there are no CPU and RAM. What are included in the D16000 are 16-bays, backplane with SAS I/O. SAS SFF-8088 cables are required to link devices together. In a nutshell, the D16000 can be viewed as a large external hard drive coupled to each other for massive volume, hence DAS for (direct-attached storage).

Daisy chain basics

The announcement of implementing daisy chain technology in the Thecus® line of products is a great milestone and brings wonderful advanced functions to the storage industry. A little background, daisy chain is a type of network topology for those that aren’t too familiar with the notion. Network topology is for network administrators to link two or more devices together to transfer data. Daisy chain layout is beneficial to users who often require adding more nodes to the network. In addition, this layout is an easy way to connect nodes together and requires little cable to do so.

Daisy chain in action

To expand volume with daisy chain, one master N16000 unit is required to guide the daisy-chaining, and then users are able to link up to four D16000 as target units. As mentioned earlier, SAS cables are utilized to link the units together to get rapid speeds. With this setup, users are able to obtain massive amount of volume, up to 320TB of storage space! The ability to reach this capacity at a low cost is something new to the industry.

Cost savings with the D16000

Volume per cost is the cream-of-the-crop for the D16000; it’s about half the cost for the same storage capacity. What this means is that the D16000 will list for about half the amount of the N16000 unit or even less, which is a bargain that innovative technology grants with daisy-chaining. Users will get the privilege to utilizes more volume, less cost with daisy chain.    

To conclude

The concept of daisy-chaining NAS together is clearly geared towards enterprise level users, with this said, large enterprises that require a vast amount of rackmounts can take advantage of daisy-chain and connect D16000 units for massive volume expansion, with massive amount of cost savings. To add, since SAS SFF-8088 is utilized to transfer data, users can rest assure that transfer speeds is unmatched.

During Computex 2012 in Taipei, the D16000 and daisy-chain setup was put on display. Click on the link provide below to check out specific details on what this innovative setup has to offer. Simply put, “Massive expansion made easy.”

For D16000 and daisy-chain video, go to: http://hexus.net/tv/show/2012/06/Thecus_D16000_and_N16000_NAS_daisy_chained?key=1339153772

For more information on the D16000, go to:

http://www.thecus.com/product.php?PROD_ID=82

For more information on Thecus®, go to: http://www.thecus.com

About Thecus®

Thecus® Technology Corp. specializes in Network Attached Storage and Network Video Recorder solutions. The company was established in 2004 with the mission to make technology that is as transparent as it is easy-to-use and products that are not only the best on the market, but are accessible to experts and novices alike. Combining a world-class R&D team highly experienced in storage hardware and software development with a keen customer focus, Thecus® stays close to the market to develop high-quality products to fulfill the storage and surveillance needs of today’s world.

For sales inquiries, please contact us via email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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