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 Kingston SSDNow 128GB Notebook upgrade kit retails for about $219.99 (at time of post) and includes the SSDNow 128GB drive, the External Enclosure, and a bootable Acronis that can clone any drives you need cloned. Figuring that the typical Drive e...
There is no disputing that the new SSD storage devices are the wave of the future, and Kingston has done a solid job of bringing a variety of these new products to the market. This SSD drive is geared for the mainstream user and even though it’s still ...
SSD’s offer many benefits to users, mostly in the form of high read and write speeds. One key advantage is there are no moving parts in SSD’s. This makes all SSD’s silent and decreases their power consumption. The lack of moving parts al...
Abstract: Sixty-four gigabyte is now a widely accepted starting point, with the OS and key applications (mostly file-read once installed, with fewer write operations) are on the SSD for a quick boot, while the data and swap files should be on a secondary HDD. H...
Abstract: A few weeks ago I received the Kingston SSDNow Vseries Desktop kit, basically it’s a kit that will allow you to upgrade your desktop hard drive to an SSD Drive. Now you may be asking yourself why would you want an SSD drive in your desktop? Well it wil...
Abstract: Solid State Drives (SSDs) have muscled into the computer storage world in a big way of late, but they remain very expensive and out of reach for all but the well-heeled or performance junkies. Mainstream users in most instances are left out in the cold...
and Concluson So the question is, do we need a Kingston SSDnow V-Series…now? The answer to the question depends on what purpose an SSD fulfills. If you need the drive for a special purpose and performance, then even this value oriented 128GB model wi...
Bundle, Performance, Price, Trim Support, Low Access times, Larger Capacity, Silent, 3Year Warranty, Low Power consumption...
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The end result of the testing is that the SNV425-S2BD-128GB drive delivered some pretty impressive numbers when it came to the read scores. The write scoring was up and down - depending on the test - but putting that in perspective, it is worlds ahead...
