Kingston’s UV500 family of solid-state drives dramatically improves the responsiveness of your existing system with incredible boot, loading & transfer times compared to mechanical hard drives. Powered by a Marvell Dean controller combined with 3D NAND Flash for read & write speeds up to 520MB/s & 500MB/s, this SSD is 10X faster than a traditional hard drive for better performance, ultra-responsive multi-tasking & an overall faster system. UV500 provides end-to-end data protection, supports 256-bit AES hardware-based encryption & TCG Opal 2.0 security management solutions. More reliable & durable than a hard drive, UV500 is built with NAND Flash semiconductor memory. There are no moving parts, making it a lot less less likely to fail than a mechanical hard drive. It is also cooler & quieter, & its shock & vibration resistance makes it absolutely ideal for notebooks & other mobile computing devices. UV500 is available in multiple capacities from 120GB–960GB, so you can buy one to use as a boot drive, or take advantage of the larger capacities to store videos, photos & host your most frequently used applications. Specifications Form factor: 2.5”/M.2 2280/m SATA Interface: SATA Rev. 3.0 (6 Gb/s) – with backwards compatibility to SATA Rev. 2.0 (3 Gb/s) Capacities: 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, 960GB Controller: Marvell Dean Controller NAND: 3D TLC Encryption: Encryption Support (AES 256-bit) Power Consumption: 0.195W Idle / 0.5W Avg / 1.17W (MAX) Read / 2.32 W (MAX) Write Dimensions: 80mm x 22mm x 3.5mm (M.2) Operating temperature: 0°C~70°C Storage temperature: -40°C~85°C Vibration operating: 2.17G Peak (7–800 Hz) Vibration non-operating: 20G Peak (10–2000 Hz) Life expectancy: 1 million hours MTBF Warranty/support: Limited 5-year warranty with free technical support Sequential Read/ Write: 120GB — up to 520/320MB/s 240GB — up to 520/500MB/s 480GB — up to 520/500MB/s 960GB — up to 520/500MB/s Maximum 4K Read/ Write: 120GB — up to 79, 000/18, 000 IOPS 240GB — up to 79, 000/25, 000 IOPS 480GB — up to 79, 000/35, 000 IOPS 960GB — up to 79, 000/45, 000 IOPS Weight: 120GB — 480GB — 41g (2.5”) 960GB — 57g (2.5”) 120GB — 6.6g (M.2) 240GB — 6.7g (M.2) 480GB — 7.7g (M.2) 120GB — 6.2g (m SATA) 240GB — 480GB — 6.7g (m SATA) Total Bytes Written (TBW): 120GB — 60TB 240GB — 100TB 480GB — 200TB 960GB — 480TB