. Product Overview UV500 An Encrypted Solution for Every User Kingstons 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 88SS1074 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–1.92TB 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..