Kingston SSD Weekend Deal

LordBarrass

LordBarrass

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For this weekend only I am doing this lovely OS / Games drive the V300 240GB SSD for £64.99. Thats 27p per GB of storage. Fill your boots while you can. Pricing goes back up Monday at 5pm so you get chance to get your orders in.


Kingston 240GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/240G) @ £64.99 inc VAT

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Kingston's SSDNow V300 solid-state drive is a cost-efficient performance upgrade that revives your personal computer and makes it more responsive. It's 10 times faster than a 7200RPM hard drive plus more reliable, more durable and shock-proof, with no moving mechanical parts. It features an LSI® SandForce® controller customised for Kingston and best-in-class components that are affordable for first-time SSD owners. SSDNow V300 is available in kits with all the accessories needed for an effortless transition to the latest technology for less than the cost of a new system. For added peace of mind, it's backed by a three-year warranty, free technical support and legendary Kingston® reliability.

Features:-
- Improves speed of loading applications and system boot up
- No moving parts, solid-state drives are less likely to fail than standard hard drives
- Design optimised to make migrating to an SSD more a ordable
- All-in-one kits with all the components for easy installation
- Multiple capacities to fit your workload
- 2.5-inch drive available in 7.0mm with adapter to fit in 9.5mm systems
- Cool and silent operation

Specification:-
- Form factor: 2.5" SATA
- Capacity: 240GB
- Controller: SandForce SF-2281
- Maximum Read: 450MB/sec
- Maximum Write: 450MB/sec
- Random 4k read/write: 85,000/43,000 IOPS
- NAND Flash: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface: SATA-III / 6Gbps (Backwards compatible with SATA-II / 3Gbps)
- Warranty: 3 Years


Was £84.99 Inc. VAT

Only £64.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW
 
Yes these drives will hit the speeds advertised. Kingston did change the NAND flash type but it is still hitting those speeds. We sell loads of these and have a very low return rate. Lower than Samsung.

Get them while you can.
 
abarrass said:
Yes these drives will hit the speeds advertised. Kingston did change the NAND flash type but it is still hitting those speeds. We sell loads of these and have a very low return rate. Lower than Samsung.

Get them while you can.
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This is good to know :), as these drives haven't be specced by us over at General Hardware for months!
 
implosiveturnip said:
Controversy? Please elaborate... Was about to pick up a pair of these.
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Its to do with the NAND on these drives - originally people thought that Kingston pulled a bait and switch but it seems that actually Kingston are shopping around for the NAND to get the best prices so you get various versions of NAND and firmware with some combinations not producing the best performance, short of buying one and testing it with some benchmarks that show real world speeds there isn't a simple answer but if you get one that doesn't live upto the headline speeds you could hopefully RMA it - at the price I'd take a punt if I was in the market for one.
 
Rroff said:
Its to do with the NAND on these drives - originally people thought that Kingston pulled a bait and switch but it seems that actually Kingston are shopping around for the NAND to get the best prices so you get various versions of NAND and firmware with some combinations not producing the best performance, short of buying one and testing it with some benchmarks that show real world speeds there isn't a simple answer but if you get one that doesn't live upto the headline speeds you could hopefully RMA it - at the price I'd take a punt if I was in the market for one.
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Honestly I'm not too bothered about getting maximum speed out of them, so long as they aren't total dogshiznit. I'm more concerned about reliability, ie they aren't likely to die within a few years if only used for OS and a few programs/games.
 
Had V300 for the last year. Been very happy with the performance.

No noticeable difference outside of benchmarks between that and the MX100 I replaced it with.

The v300 went into my server
 
abarrass said:
Yes these drives will hit the speeds advertised. Kingston did change the NAND flash type but it is still hitting those speeds. We sell loads of these and have a very low return rate. Lower than Samsung.

Get them while you can.
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NOOOO!!!! I'm saving for a custom loop :(
 
Ordered 2!! Only made a thread in the storage section the other night about moving to SSD only storage in my build, this price drop was the perfect excuse.
 
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