Kingston 40GB V Series Boot Drive SSD (Intel G2)

With regards to Drive lifespans, you can check this yourself on Intels by looking at a SMART value - mine is still at 99% after a few months of use, which means at the current rate i'll get a good 15+ years out of it.
This is with it at around 65GB / 74GB space most of the time and no special measures taken to increase lifespan apart from disabled defrag.
I probably do more writes than average too as I frequently shuffle game directories back and forth to my NAS when i need space for another game, sometimes doing 15-20GB at a time.

One of the reasons i went Intel over Indilinx is that Intel have published their Write Amplification stats, which are very good.
 
ask your self this. how old is the oldest HD in your machine at the moment, 3 years maybe even 5 years (oldest drive still in use in one of the 3 machines in my house is a 200GB maxtor manufactured in march 2005 and its used as a 3rd drive in my sons machine). nobody will be using one of these SSD'd for anything mission critical by the time they start to lose cells, and bear in mind that is what they will do 'start' to lose cells, they wont suddenly become inoperable. they will just slowly lose capacity, i reckon it would take another year or so before anyone even noticed the loss of capacity.

anyway i definatly want a couple ........so come on OCUK get them in :D
 
Atom said:
How good would one of these really be compared to a VR for a main desktop machine?

I only want a single os drive but the writes really put me off.
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Access times are much improved. For an OS drive how much of your use is writing v. reading?

It's pretty much a no-brainer - it will feel a lot faster than the VR. Try running AS Benchmark on a VR and comparing results. The Kingston may lose out in some tests, but in the important ones the VR will be no where near. It's all about balance.

maddness said:
would this work ok in a laptop? laptop takes a regular sata 2.5" drive

thanks
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Yes. I have put one in a netbook, straight swap as these SSDs are 2.5" SATA drives.
 
ChileanLlama said:
Access times are much improved. For an OS drive how much of your use is writing v. reading?

It's pretty much a no-brainer - it will feel a lot faster than the VR. Try running AS Benchmark on a VR and comparing results. The Kingston may lose out in some tests, but in the important ones the VR will be no where near. It's all about balance.



Yes. I have put one in a netbook, straight swap as these SSDs are 2.5" SATA drives.
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cheers :)
 
That legitreview on the 2x40gb Kingston's in RAID0 needs re-doing because of the Windows RAID they used.

Here's some figures for 2 in RAID0 on Intel ICH9R, 128kb stripe (which I've found to be about the best after trying smaller ones).

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They scale really well, and are there or there abouts with an 80gb Intel X25M for writes, and better overall on reads. For me these drives represent excellent value for money, as a single drive, or in a RAID0 if you're not put off by that sort of thing.
 
bru said:
ask your self this. how old is the oldest HD in your machine at the moment
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Well, it depends which machine - but I have a actively used desktop still going strong despite its main disks (RAID0) being nearly 7 years old.

Matthew

(The oldest disk in the house is 15 years old, but I must confess that I've not attempted to switch that machine on in the last 6 years).
 
well finally managed to set these up today, and must say these are bloody fast, microsoft opens in like less than a second :D

you wont be disappointed meatloaf ;)
 
Some great feedback in here, sadly I've just had an email from my supplier saying I'm going to have to wait for stock despite it saying they had some at time of ordering - I hate it when companies do that!!

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adam_m said:
Some great feedback in here, sadly I've just had an email from my supplier saying I'm going to have to wait for stock despite it saying they had some at time of ordering - I hate it when companies do that!!

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Same :(

Dammit OC, why can't you stock these so we don't have to buy from these chumps?
 
No. The V+ series use a completely different controller and firmware.

The chances of getting TRIM support on the 40Gb V appear to be basically nil at this point. Kingston has dumped Intel as a partner (or possibly the other way around, it's not clear which) which means no firmware updates.
 
DrBombcrater said:
No. The V+ series use a completely different controller and firmware.

The chances of getting TRIM support on the 40Gb V appear to be basically nil at this point. Kingston has dumped Intel as a partner (or possibly the other way around, it's not clear which) which means no firmware updates.
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All my Kingston SSDNow V 40gb drives came with firmware 02HA which supports TRIM.
 
ChileanLlama said:
All my Kingston SSDNow V 40gb drives came with firmware 02HA which supports TRIM.
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No it doesn't, and Intel have refused to supply Kingston with updated firmware which enables trim, which is why they've now withdrawn it and are replacing it with a cheaper 30GB SSD using a Toshiba controller and flash.

Fortunately some kind person on the net has published details of how to flash the latest Intel firmware (which does support TRIM) into the Kingston drive -- at your own risk, of course...
 
dedocuk said:
No it doesn't, and Intel have refused to supply Kingston with updated firmware which enables trim, which is why they've now withdrawn it and are replacing it with a cheaper 30GB SSD using a Toshiba controller and flash.

Fortunately some kind person on the net has published details of how to flash the latest Intel firmware (which does support TRIM) into the Kingston drive -- at your own risk, of course...
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Have you got a link please ?
 
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