Kingston’s Knowledge Centre
Learn about memory and storage products, the latest technology trends, tutorials and best practices for both personal and enterprise users.
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Encrypted USB Flash Drive Industry Alliances
Some of Kingston and IronKey's Secure USB Flash drives are powered by partners, licensed technology, or services.
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AES-XTS Block Cipher Mode is used in Kingston's best secure 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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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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FAQs for SATA and M.2 SSDs
Frequently asked questions around SSD technologies and terms like SATA, M.2, NAND, RAID, NVMe, PCIe, SAS, and keying.
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SSDs for embedded and purpose-built systems
Embedded systems use SSD storage form factors like 2.5,” M.2, mSATA and ball grid array packages.
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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 Software-Defined Storage Arrays
SDS provides a policy-based control of data tiers, independent of the underlying storage hardware.
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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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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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ECC and Spare Blocks help to keep Kingston SSD data protected from errors
End-to-End Data Protection protects customer’s data as soon as it is transferred by the host system to the SSD, and then from the SSD to the host computer. All Kingston SSDs incorporate this protection.
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Secure Customisation Programme
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 programme delivers precisely what your organisation needs.
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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).
