Kingston Knowledge Center
Learn about memory and storage products, the latest technology trends, tutorials and best practices for both personal and enterprise users.
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SSD Over-provisioning (OP)
A percentage of space on an SSD is reserved for OP in firmware. OP can improve performance.
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Secure USB Flash Drive Industry Alliances - Kingston Technology
Some of Kingston and IronKey's Secure USB Flash drives are powered by partners, licensed technology, or services.
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A Closer Look At SSD Power Loss Protection
Firmware/hardware PFAIL protection is an highly effective method for preventing data loss in enterprise SSD.
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Kingston’s garbage collection methods allows greater SSD performance
Kingston uses LSI® SandForce®-based controllers in some SSDs that use proprietary tech for Garbage Collection.
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SSDs for High-Performance Computing (HPC)
HPC can require massive amounts of data. SSDs consume a fraction of the power of their spinning disk.
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SSDs for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
Kingston datacenter SSDs provide excellent resiliency to protect sensitive data in OLTP workloads.
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Secure Customization Program
This program offers the options most frequently requested by customers, including serial numbering, dual password and custom logos. With a minimum order of 50 pieces, the program delivers precisely what your organization needs.
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FAQs for SATA and M.2 SSDs - Kingston Technology
Frequently asked questions around SSD technologies and terms like SATA, M.2, NAND, RAID, NVMe, PCIe, SAS, and keying.
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Drive Writes Per Day (DWPD)
Drive Writes Per Day (DWPD) calculations use the TBW specification of a drive to calculate the number of times the user capacity of a drive can be written per day over the warranty period (or a different number of years).
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Garbage Collection, TRIM and SSD performance
See how these factors affect solid-state drive performance
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AES-XTS Block Cipher Mode is used in Kingston's best encrypted USB Flash Drives
256-bit AES hardware-based XTS block cipher mode encryption is used in DT 4000G2 and DTVP 3.0.
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Kingston's FIPS Compliance for Encrypted Storage
Most IronKey and Kingston secure USB flash drives are FIPS 140-2 Certified.
