The Kingston UV500 was a solid-state drive in the 2.5" form factor, launched on April 16th, 2018, that is no longer in production. It was available in capacities ranging from 120 GB to 1.9 TB. This page reports specifications for the 240 GB variant. With the rest of the system, the Kingston UV500 interfaces using a SATA 6 Gbps connection. The SSD controller is the 88SS1074 Dean from Marvell, a DRAM cache chip is available. Kingston has installed 64-layer TLC NAND flash on the UV500, the flash chips are made by Toshiba. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are absorbed more quickly. The cache is sized at 2 GB. The UV500 is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 520 MB/s and 500 MB/s write; random IO reaches 79K IOPS for read and 25K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 47 USD. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Kingston guarantees an endurance rating of 100 TBW, a relatively low value compared to other SSDs.