With speculation that both motherboards and potentially DRAM will be increasing in price in the next few months, it looks like NAND flash based products aren't following the same trend. Kingston is said to be dropping is pricing on at least some of its NAND flash based products by as much as 15 percent.
Kingston showed off some of its latest creations alongside the ongoing International CES event, in Las Vegas. Visiting journalists were shown a variety of products from Kingston's PC memory and SSD portfolios.
The DDR3 memory industry is suffering with indigestion. Quite literally. Upstream component manufacturers, as well as vendors have jointly overproduced, and hence we're seeing unreal memory prices. DRAM chip vendors Elpida and Toshiba are two of those companies suffering with inventory digestion problem, and they could be the worst hit, given that they're both Japanese, and are part of an environment with lower room for cost-cutting (since labor costs, as well as product quality factor in higher). Kingston Technology has a pill.
Sometimes technology companies really states the obvious and Kingston has now gone on record to say that it expects SSD drive adoption to take off significantly towards the second half of next year. The reason why you ask? Well, by then NAND flash is expected to have come down in cost to about US$1 per 1GB, in other words, SSDs will be cheaper than they are now which will lead to a bigger consumer uptake.
There's no shortage of USB 3.0 flash drives by now, but disappointingly many of them offer the same kind of write performance as USB 2.0 drives, something that makes them a fairly uninteresting purchase despite the faster read speeds. Kingston has alleviated that issues with its DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 flash drive which is offering some really fast speeds, but at a cost.
Another day, another new SSD range offering higher performance than the one announced the day before, oh, hang on, the new V200 series from Kingston isn't actually a high-end range of drives, instead Kingston has focused on good enough performance at a lower price point. The company claims that its new V200 series will offer close to twice the performance of its previous budget model, the V100, at a more attractive price point.
We received an interesting set of notebook memory in the mail recently. Kingston claims these HyperX Plug n Play modules will run at DDR3-1866 speed right out the box, so we decided to take them for a quick test drive...
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Kingston's 2133MHz HyperX SO-DIMM memory module is now Intel XMP-compatible. It is one of the fastest notebook memory modules in the market. More details inside.
Kingston has another interesting product announced today and it's a storage solution known as the Wi-Drive for Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod users. Due to the limited storage capacity of Apple's mobile gadgets, this portable storage solution certainly has its potential. It allows up to three Apple users to store, share and even stream content wirelessly through the Wi-Drive app available for download from the App Store. Wi-Drive will be available later this month in capacities of 16GB and 32GB for US$129.99 and US$174.99 respectively.
Kingston is clearly getting more serious in the SSD business and unveils their first SandForce based HyperX series SSD today. These SSDs are using the SandForce SF-2281 SATA 6Gb/s controllers with Intel 25nm Compute NAND (5K Program Erase) and are available in 120GB and 240GB capacities. HyperX SSDs have a read throughput of 525MB/s and a write throughput of 480MB/s, 4KB random read/write speeds of up to 95K/70K IOPS.
Kingston has just released its fastest and largest microSDHC card to date: The 32GB Class 10 microSDHC packs 10MB/s read and write speeds, backed by Kingston's lifetime warranty.
Kingston Digital, independent world leader in memory products, takes mobility a step further with the launch of its DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 G2 flash drives.
VR-Zone takes a look at the SSDNow V+100, a solid state drive from Kingston using a Toshiba controller.
With quad-channel Sandy Bridge E on the horizon, triple-channel kits might soon be a thing of the past. Nevertheless, we decided to have a quick overclocking session with Kingston's HyperX T1 DDR3 triple-channel kit.
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