Kingston Technology 120GB SSDNow KC100 SKC100S3/120GBK Leaflet

Product codes
SKC100S3/120GBK
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F E A T U R E S / B E N E F I T S
 
Reliable – five-year warranty, free technical support
 
Endurance  – Data Integrity Protection featuring  
DuraClass™ Technology
 
Dependable – RAISE™ for advanced data reliability
 
Secure – self-encrypting drive
 
Durable – DuraWrite optimizes writes to extend endurance
S P E C I F I C A T I O N S
 
Form factor 2.5"
 
Interface SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s), SATA Rev. 2.0 (3Gb/s), 
 
SATA Rev. 1.0 (1.5Gb/s)
 
Capacities
1
 120GB, 240GB, 480GB
 
Sequential Reads 6Gb/s
2
  
SATA Rev. 3.0 — 120GB & 240GB - 555MB/s; 480GB - 540MB/s 
SATA Rev. 2.0  — 120GB, 240GB & 480GB - 280MB/s
 
Sequential Writes 6Gb/s  
SATA Rev. 3.0 — 120GB & 240GB - 510MB/s; 480GB - 450MB/s 
SATA Rev. 2.0  — 120GB, 240GB & 480GB - 260MB/s
 
Sustained Random 4k Read/Write
3
  
120GB – 20,000/60,000 IOPS 
240GB – 40,000/57,000 IOPS 
480GB – 60,000/45,000 IOPS
 
Max Random 4k Read/Write  
120GB – 87,000/70,000 IOPS 
240GB – 87,000/58,000 IOPS 
480GB – 75,000/47,000 IOPS
 
Warranty/support five-year warranty with free support
 
Enterprise SMART Tools  Reliability Tracking, Usage Statistics, Life 
Remaining, Wear Leveling, Temperature, Drive Life Protection
 
Power Consumption 0.455 W (TYP) Idle / 1.6 W (TYP) Read / 2.05 W 
(TYP) Write
 
Dimensions 69.85mm x 100mm x 9.5mm
 
Storage temperatures -40 ~ 85°C
 
Operating temperatures 0 ~ 70°C
 
Vibration operating 2.17G
 
Vibration non-operating 20G 
 
MTBF 1,000,000 Hrs
 
Total Bytes Written (TBW)
4
    
120G: 160TB 
240G: 320TB 
480G: 640TB  
 
Test System: ASRock P67 Motherboard, Intel Core i7 2600k 3.4GHz CPU, 8GB System Memory, 
NVIDIA GTX 460 Video Card. SSD tested as secondary drive with results based on “out-of-box” 
performance.
K I N G S T O N   P A R T   N U M B E R S
SKC100S3/120G (stand-alone drive)
SKC100S3/240G (stand-alone drive)
SKC100S3/480G (stand-alone drive)
SKC100S3B/120G (upgrade bundle kit)
SKC100S3B/240G (upgrade bundle kit)
SKC100S3B/480G (upgrade bundle kit)
SSDNow KC100
• 2.5" SSD
• 2.5" USB Enclosure
• 3.5" brackets and mounting screws
• SATA power and data cable
• Hard drive cloning software
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• Installation guide
B U N D L E S   I N C L U D E
This SSD is designed for use in desktop and notebook computer workloads and is not intended for Server 
environments. 
1  Please note: 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 Memory 
Guide at kingston.com/flash_memory_guide. 
2 Based on “out-of-box performance” with ATTO Disk Benchmark 2.41. Speed may vary due to host 
hardware, software and usage.
3 Based on “out-of-box performance” with IOMeter08.
4 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.
5 Operating system software support: Windows® 7, Windows Vista® (SP2), Windows XP (SP3) 
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