Kingston SSD Weekend Deal

Legend said:
How do these compare to the MX100s?
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The V300 is slower, much slower in my personal experience. It's very noticeable in benchmarks, but it's also noticeably less snappy in day to day use - something that isn't usually the case with SSDs as they always feel as fast as each other to me.

I bought a 240GB V300 about 6 months back as they were the cheapest SSD for the size at the time, but I was rather disappointed with it. Ended up moving it to my LAN PC and buying a Samsung 840 Pro for my main PC - much better. Since then I've got an 512MB MX100 and that's pretty much as quick as the Samsung in my experience.

Don't get me wrong, the V300 is still quicker than any mechanical drive, but it's slower than most modern SSDs. I was fooled by the initial reviews, where I should have been checking the later reviews with the different memory chips Kingston started to use: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7763/an-update-to-kingston-ssdnow-v300-a-switch-to-slower-micron-nand - I don't know if brand new SSDs, like those on offer this weekend, are still using the slower memory or if they've switched back to faster ones. No way to tell from the specs quoted as Kingston have quoted maximum speeds of 450MB/s for each variant - including mine which can't get anywhere close to that even with a prevailing wind and a head start!
 
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These Kingstons are in a awkward position after changing the internals. Their performance is not great and similarly priced SSDs offer much better performance. It would be pretty hard to recommend one of these over a competitor if the difference is only a few pounds though when this SSD is on offer it makes the performance hit a little easier to swallow.

The trouble is that it hits it's rated speeds in compressible benchmarks. I'm no expert on SSDs, but I think some OS files and application can be compressed by the SSD so if you install Windows to it, it should perform just fine. As far as I know, incompressible data is things like movies, music etc. I could be wrong though.

I found this article about the changes Kingston made which I found to be really helpful:
http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/1360-kingston-v300-asynchronous-vs-synchronous-benchmark

I also found this article which shows the performance with incompressible and compressible data with a recent model (not the 240GB one though):
http://stablecomputer.com/kingston-120gb-ssdnow-v300-review/

I don't think I would grab this drive at it's usual price, though if it has a decent price cut, it can be worth shoving into an older system as it is still better than a hard drive.
 
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Smoogels said:
These Kingstons are in a awkward position after changing the internals. Their performance is not great and similarly priced SSDs offer much better performance. It would be pretty hard to recommend one of these over a competitor if the difference is only a few pounds though when this SSD is on offer it makes the performance hit a little easier to swallow.
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i agree, for £65, i'd probably recommend it in some uber-cheap builds.
anything above £65 and i'll say go crucial mx100 instead.
 
I wouldn't touch a V300 unless they are super super cheap. Kingston should have learnt a lesson on what they did. No at this price point the V300 is not competing at all, tbh.
 
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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Does that mean I can send mine back then as they're no where near the advertised speeds.

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almighty15 said:
Does that mean I can send mine back then as they're no where near the advertised speeds.
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If you haven't already done, I'd ask this question in the Customer Service forum. I would say though that as the quoted speeds only show maximum speeds, not minimum, presumably you would actually only be eligible to return them if they delivered MORE speed than promised! :eek:
 
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