Kingston 128GB SSD

nmungur · 27 Jun 2010 at 23:10

I have an Intel extreme 3.33, 12 gig RAM, GA X58a UD5, 1TB hard drive... I am getting a bit flustered with the bottleneck with the hard drive.

I have found this SSD, SNV425-S2/128GB its a Kingston 128 GB. Does anyone have any experience or info with it to comment?

My suggested solution was to load everything onto the SSD and use the 1TB for backups. Any thoughts?

Zarf · 28 Jun 2010 at 01:54

They are pretty decent drives for the money. Your plan of using the hdd for backups sounds fine. Naturally if space does become an issue I'd offload Music and videos onto the mechanical drive first.

JeffyB · 28 Jun 2010 at 02:00

I picked a snvp325 256gb for a ridiculous price, performance is great and the extra capicity swayed me awy from the similarly priced 100gb competition. Its a good drive and if you can get it at the right price your onto a winner

Bane · 28 Jun 2010 at 20:50

I didn't remember seeing a 256GB V series drive. So just to clarify the SNVP325 is a V+ model that demands a higher price.

darkwildchild79 · 25 Aug 2010 at 23:07

nmungur said:
I have an Intel extreme 3.33, 12 gig RAM, GA X58a UD5, 1TB hard drive... I am getting a bit flustered with the bottleneck with the hard drive.

I have found this SSD, SNV425-S2/128GB its a Kingston 128 GB. Does anyone have any experience or info with it to comment?

My suggested solution was to load everything onto the SSD and use the 1TB for backups. Any thoughts?

i was looking at that SSD also to replace my western raptors, i was wondering if it would worth the prices of 200gbp, since i am new at ssd would this been a good drive or not, and also what is better slc or mlc and also the controllers are there any difference since there are so many to choice from, why cant they be simple like HDD??

DrBombcrater · 26 Aug 2010 at 00:20

nmungur said:
I have found this SSD, SNV425-S2/128GB its a Kingston 128 GB. Does anyone have any experience or info with it to comment?

The Kingston V series drives are cheap because they're pretty slow by today's standards. When I used one of these drives (well, the 64GB version) for a while it felt a bit hesitant compared to the Intel SSD I normally use. But they're still faster than any hard drive.