Testseek.com have collected 126 expert reviews of the Kingston 2.5 inch SSDNOW V-Series SATA300 and the average rating is 80%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Kingston 2.5 inch SSDNOW V-Series SATA300.
August 2009
(80%)
126 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(66%)
12 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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"Desktop Kit" is an excellent upgrade for a desktop or HTPC system
Consistent
Respectable performance
Well priced (as far as SSDs go)
Minimal power consumption
Minimal heat production
Includes a bootable version of Acronis to make easy work of cloning your drive
Strong read performance
Published transfer rate data may actually be conservative
Internals by Intel (controller and memory)
Very attractively priced
Desktop upgrade kit includes items to make installation a snap
Bootable version of Acronis to make easy work of cloning your drive
Respectable read speeds
Overall performance is just fine for most uses
Competitively priced
Bundle of accessories makes installation easy
Great blend of performance
Capacity
And pricing
Solid performance
Twice as fast as previous generation 128GB SSDNow V Series drive
Useful upgrade kit including a copy of Acronis for setting up your drive
Competitively priced compared to other 128GB SSDs
Good value
Solid application open times
Comes with upgrade kit
Attractive casing
Complete Kit
Low Power
System Is Snappier
Fantastic RAID Like Speed
Quiet
Never Gets Hot
Standard SATA Interface
Easy To Hide In The Chassis
Did We Mention Fast Really Fast
Very good 197 MBps read bandwidth with ATTO Benchmark
The hard disk drive has always been a stalwart, if not a not-so-silent workhose. As long as it gets the job done, works, and gives us a reasonable assurance that our data isn't going to vanish into digital oblivion anytime soon, it just isn't thought ...
Abstract: If you haven’t experienced the benefits of an ultra-low-latency SSD as your OS/application volume, we highly recommend it. With its relatively low price and included migration tools, the Kingston 40GB SSDNow V-Series might be all the motivation you’ll need.
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Published: 2009-12-02, Author: Ben , review by: engadget.com
At less than $100, the Kingston 40GB SSD is a superb value and is certainly a solid system upgrade. If you're building a new system and can spare the extra cash, don't even think about it -- you won't regret having an SSD at the helm. The fact is there ju...
Newegg has this drive for $130 at the time of writing. This is an excellent price to get your feet wet in the SSD market and gain some overall system speed in the process. If you've been on the fence about purchasing a SSD over price, this might spur...
The Kingston SSDNow V-Series 40GB Solid State Drive is a bit of a misnomer. It really shares no similarities with its V Series sibling, nor its V+ cousin either, both in terms of internal architecture and performance results. This drive should have a d...
System Is Snappier, Fantastic RAID Like Speed, Quiet, Never Gets Hot, Standard SATA Interface, Easy To Hide In The Chassis, Did We Mention Fast Really Fast
Price Still Higher Than Traditional Platter Drives, Write Speed Mediocre
We've been waiting for SSD's to drop in price so they can mainstream and this may be the first shot in the mainstream war. It's not quite what we were hoping for but with the $85 (after MIR) price tag the Kingston SSDNow V is a major step in t...
Kingston certainly surprised us by taking the initiative to work with Intel and release their own 'custom' version of the X25-M G2. While the 50% reduction in flash channels effectively cut most of the specifications in half, read speeds and rand...
Strong read performance, Published transfer rate data may actually be conservative, Internals by Intel (controller and memory), Very attractively priced, Desktop upgrade kit includes items to make installation a snap, Bootable version of Acronis to make easy work of cloning your drive
Write performance is well below average at 40MB/s, Not convinced 40GB is enough for a boot drive or stand-alone
The new wave of Kingston SSDNow V Series solid state drives puts an interesting new twist on their value line. With Intel's second generation controller and 34nm MLC NAND flash memory, many might argue the internals are the best presently on the marke...
