Kingston 2.5 inch SSDNOW E50 Series SATA600

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Build Quality (Enterprise Grade/1.000.000 Hours MTBF), Very Good Performance, Power Loss Protection/DuraClass/DuraWrite/RAISE Features, Power Consumption (2.74W MAX), 3 Years Warranty

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Build Quality (Enterprise Grade/1.000.000 Hours MTBF), Very Good Performance, Power Loss Protection/DuraClass/DuraWrite/RAISE Features, Power Consumption (2.74W MAX), 3 Years Warranty

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To say that there is a growing need or trend for data encryption doesn’t quite describe where information security is headed for both businesses and consumers. It’s more like a tsunami that everyone can just see on the horizon that can’t be ignored...

By FutureLooks on March 20, 2014

While the Kingston E50 received good marks for endurance and enterprise features, its shortcomings in consistency, performance, pricing and warranty, especially when compared to its peers, hurt its...

By thessdreview.com on November 04, 2013

Whenever we receive an enterprise class oriented SSD model it's usually based on the SAS connectivity so when we read that the E50 was based on SATA III we knew that it wasn't aimed towards the most demanding and write heavy environments and the somewhat...

By NikkTech on July 03, 2014

The three year old LSI SandForce SF-2281 and SF-2581 controllers can't keep up in terms of performance, that much has been clear for a while now we've seen in a number of SSDs. The appeal of the Kingston SSDNow E50 is therefore that it's a very...

By uk.hardware.info on December 04, 2013

The new Kingston E50 240GB drive has a lot going in its favor. It makes use of the best, most heavily tested version of SandForce’s second generation controller, uses custom high performance firmware and has an intelligent super capacitor design with...

By Hardware Canucks on November 14, 2013