Kingston V300 any good?

jammir · 7 Apr 2016 at 19:42

Doing a small i3 nuc style build for the sister-in-law was wondering if the Kingston v300 drives are any good as seen a few reports of bad drives.

Rroff · 7 Apr 2016 at 19:45

They are "ok" but older variants had performance issues - I wouldn't rush to use them unless I was trying to save some money reviving an older system that lacked newer versions of SATA personally.

I've used a few other Kingston SSDs without any issues though.

Disco_P · 7 Apr 2016 at 20:19

I would avoid them. Even if they are no longer affected by the slower nand and whether that really made any difference I couldn't tell you. However it's still a nasty move by kingston and the crappy sales show that.

The Sandisk SSD Now is a very low cost SSD that I own and thoroughly recommend.

lurkio · 7 Apr 2016 at 20:20

I own 3 of them, had to update the firmware to fix a bug , running fine for 3 years now

jammir · 7 Apr 2016 at 22:40

I got one at a good price new for £23 and now wondering if I should just return and get something like a sandisk

Gze · 7 Apr 2016 at 23:16

jammir said:
I got one at a good price new for £23 and now wondering if I should just return and get something like a sandisk

How many GBs?

jammir · 8 Apr 2016 at 02:05

120gb

TheMadDutchDude · 8 Apr 2016 at 02:24

I generally wouldn't recommend them but for £23, you may as well keep hold of it. It'll do the job just fine.