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Reviews of Kingston 2.5 inch SSDNow V300 Series SATA600

Testseek.com have collected 158 expert reviews of the Kingston 2.5 inch SSDNow V300 Series SATA600 and the average rating is 80%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Kingston 2.5 inch SSDNow V300 Series SATA600.
Award: Most Awarded April 2013
April 2013
 
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158 Reviews
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The editors liked

  • With compressible data this drive exceeded its rated read and write transfer speeds by 50MB/s
  • Win7 loading time of 23 seconds with an overclocked i5 2500k
  • Fair pricing
  • At less than $1/GB
  • Included Acronis disk cloning software is very effective
  • Available in 60GB
  • 120GB and 240GB capacities
  • SandForce SF-2281 processor
  • Toggle Mode NAND flash
  • Excellent sequential read and write speeds
  • SATA 6Gb/s interface
  • Supports SMART
  • TRIM and Garbage Collection
  • Available as stand-alone drive or as part of
  • Build Quality (SF2281/ Internal Thermal Pads/ Toshiba 19nm NAND)
  • Very Good Performance
  • Bundle (2.5" USB Enclosure/ 3.5" bracket/ SATA III Cable/ SATA Power Connector/ Cloning Software)
  • 3 Year Warranty With Free Technical Support
  • Available Bundles (SSD
  • Good Read Speed
  • Good Sequential Read Response Time
  • Build Quality (SF-2281)
  • Very Good Performance (Especially For A 3 Year Old Model)
  • 128TBW / 1 Million Hours MTBF
  • Available Bundles (Notebook/Desktop Kits)
  • Price (For Some)
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  • Available with comprehensive desktop or laptop installation kit
  • 7mm thickness for slim laptops
  • Consistent speed through most tests
  • Great price/performance ratio. Priced well below $1 per GB.
  • Excellent operation as a system drive
  • Very good sequential read/write speeds
  • SATA 6Gbps support
  • 7mm thick
  • Outstanding contents inside the package
  • Good TRIM performance
  • 3 year warranty
  • Very affordable.
  • Faster speeds than specification
  • Robust accessory package
  • Competitive price
  • Customized controller by LSI
  • Great performance
  • Accessories bundle
  • Price
  • Excellent sequential performance
  • Great 4K performance
  • Potential for 85K IOPS
  • Special tuned controller/firmware between Kingston & LSI/Sandforce
  • Super Fast Read/Write
  • Under $1/GB
  • Inexpensive
  • Decent performance overall

The editors didn't like

  • Poor
  • But expected sequential read/write performance with incompressible data
  • Please drop by the Bigbruin.com Forum and feel free to post any comments or questions
  • Not as fast when writing incompressible data
  • SandForce SF2281 Controller Is Getting Old
  • Write speed should be better for the price
  • 3 Years in The Market / NAND Flash Performance “Issue” (not encountered in our tests)
  • Performance in our benchmarks lagged behind less-costly alternatives
  • Older SF-2181 loses speed in random read/writes
  • Or when working with uncompressed data
  • None
  • SandForce 2281 struggles with incompressible data
  • Not fastest SSD on the market
  • Would have liked to see a 5 year warranty
  • Uncompressible data performance takes a hit (SF2281 issue Not independent to this model)
  • Odd results from testing

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  Published: 2018-04-02, Author: Bình , review by: topnewreview.com

  • Abstract:  • Manufacturer: Kingston• Requirements: SATA-3 for best results, space for a 2.5″ driveThis 120GB drive falls under Kingston's V300 SSDNow range.It has an older LSI SandForce 2281 controller, which has been customized for Kingston and uses the T...

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  Published: 2017-02-03, Author: Hassan , review by: wccftech.com

  • After quiet some time with the SSDNow V300, all i can say is that Kingston has delivered an exceptional update to their value oriented SSDNow series. The V300 SSD in our benchmarking process came out as a pretty fast storage solution, one which even gave...

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  Published: 2016-08-18, Author: Rafael , review by: hardwaresecrets.com

  • Abstract:  The SanDisk SSD PLUS and the Kingston SSDNow V300, in their 120 GiB versions, are some of the most inexpensive SSDs avaliable at the market, which makes them extremely popular among users that want to speed up their computers without wasting too much mone...

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  Published: 2015-12-23, review by: nikktech.com

  • Build Quality (SF-2281), Very Good Performance (Especially For A 3 Year Old Model), 128TBW / 1 Million Hours MTBF, 3 Year Warranty With Free Technical Support, Available Bundles (Notebook/Desktop Kits), Price (For Some),  ,
  • 3 Years in The Market / NAND Flash Performance “Issue” (not encountered in our tests),
  • I can't speak on behalf of all of you out there but I really hate it when people try to trick me and the same of course applies to manufacturers. So when a few months back I remembered the V300 “fiasco” I just had to make sure that our samp...

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  Published: 2015-12-06, Author: The , review by: hardwarebbq.com

  • Good Read Speed, Good Sequential Read Response Time
  • Write speed should be better for the price
  • The pricing of all the three drives are as follows:Kingston  UV300 240GBIndia UK US France INR 5,900/-  NA  NA  NASanDisk Ultra II 240GBIndia UK US FranceNA £59.99 $79.99 EUR 82.99SanDisk Extreme Pro 240GBIndia UK US FranceRs. 9,532/-  £87.99  $94.99  EUR...

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  Published: 2015-08-04, Author: Kristofer , review by: technogog.com

  • Inexpensive, Decent performance overall
  • Odd results from testing
  • I would have to say that the Kingston V300 SSD is a nice upgrade over the Western Digital Caviar Black surely.The test results I got were odd sure, two say similar things and the other two say something similar as well but totally different from the first...

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  Published: 2014-08-04, Author: Nathan , review by: legitreviews.com

  • The Kingston SSDNow V310 960GB drive was designed to be a good drive at the value end of the consumer SSD market. Our testing of the drive found it to be a pretty solid drive with 552 MB/s read and 489MB/s write on the standard overlapped I/O benchmark in...

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  Published: 2014-07-03, review by: nikktech.com

  • Build Quality (SF2281/ Internal Thermal Pads/ Toshiba 19nm NAND), Very Good Performance, Bundle (2.5" USB Enclosure/ 3.5" bracket/ SATA III Cable/ SATA Power Connector/ Cloning Software), 3 Year Warranty With Free Technical Support, Available Bundles (SSD
  • SandForce SF2281 Controller Is Getting Old
  • For a mainstream/budget model the SSDNow V300 performed very well but unfortunately (although expected from a mainstream model) it did fall back in most tests from both the SSDNow KC100 we tested a few days ago and of course the two currently available Hy...

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  Published: 2014-03-20, review by: pcstats.com

  • Abstract:  I haven't had much (if any) experience with Kingston SSDs. For that matter, the CanadaComputers geeks I spoke with in the store didn't know much about Kingston's SSDs either... I like to ask computer store employees which brands generate the highest numbe...

 
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  Published: 2014-01-21, review by: phoronix.com

  • Abstract:  For those in the market for a solid-state drive, the Kingston SSDNow V300 series offers a 120GB Serial ATA 3.0 SSD for less than $90 USD. How well does this SSD work on Linux? We have benchmarks at Phoronix done under Ubuntu and compared to a range of HDD...

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