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Many companies deliver their data centre/enterprise drives in plain vanilla boxes, not so Kingston, they ship theirs in blister packs just like their retail consumer drives. The DC3000ME’s blister pack has the drive’s capacity clearly labelled on the front, along with interface type and which market segment(s) the drive is aimed at, together with a logo that displays the 5-year warranty that Kingston backs the drive with. The rear of the packaging has multilingual marketing and warranty notes on it.
The DC3000ME is built on a 2.5in 15mm format with the enclosure constructed from anodised aluminium with ribs on top and bottom to help with heat dissipation. The drive uses a Marvell Bravera SC5 16-channel NVMe SSD controller, which looks after 232-layer Micron B58R eTLC NAND.
The Bravera SC5 16-channel (MV-SS1333) is built on a 12nm format in a 20 x 20mm package with 10 embedded processor cores mainly using Arm Cortex-R8 cores with additional Cortex-M7 cores and a Cortex-M3 processor, which has integrated instruction/data SRAM and crypto engines (AES, SHA, RSA, ECC) and supports AES-256 Encryption with FIPS compliant root of trust.
The Bravera SC5 is NVMe 1.4b compliant and uses Marvell's 5th generation of NANDEdge error correction engine. It supports SLC, MLC, TLC, and QLC NAND and can be used with either DDR4 (3200MHz) or LPDDR4X (4266MHz) cache. The controller's performance is quoted as up to 14GB/s and 9GB/s for Sequential reads and writes, respectively. It is rated at up to 2M IOPS for random reads and up to 1M IOPS for writes.
The drive uses a PCIe Gen 5 x4 U.2 interface.
