*****Kingston SSDNow V Series Solid State Drives*****

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Kingston SSDNow V Series 64GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (SNV125-S2BD/64GB)

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Adding a solid-state drive to a desktop already using a standard hard disk drive is a smart and efficient way to upgrade. Transferring the operating system and applications from the HDD to the SSD allows the solidstate drive to be used as a bootable drive that takes full advantage of the speed of the Flash-based technology. The SSD and the HDD then co-exist to drive optimal performance in the upgraded desktop. SSDNow V Series drives offer performance gains and power consumption reductions at a fraction of the cost of a new system. For added peace of mind, they’re backed by 24/7 tech support, a three-year warranty and legendary Kingston reliability.

- Capacity: 64GB
- Read: Up to 100MB/sec
- Write: Up to 80MB/sec
- NAND Flash: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface: SATA-II
- Low Power Consumption
- Lightweight (77g)
- Shock Resistant
- Includes: 3.5" Adapter, screws, SATA & Power cables, step-by-step instructions.
- Acronis Cloning Software
- Warranty: 3 Years


Just £104.99 Inc. VAT

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Kingston SSDNow V Series 128GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (SNV125-S2BD/128GB)

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Adding a solid-state drive to a desktop already using a standard hard disk drive is a smart and efficient way to upgrade. Transferring the operating system and applications from the HDD to the SSD allows the solidstate drive to be used as a bootable drive that takes full advantage of the speed of the Flash-based technology. The SSD and the HDD then co-exist to drive optimal performance in the upgraded desktop. SSDNow V Series drives offer performance gains and power consumption reductions at a fraction of the cost of a new system. For added peace of mind, they’re backed by 24/7 tech support, a three-year warranty and legendary Kingston reliability.

- Capacity: 128GB
- Read: Up to 100MB/sec
- Write: Up to 80MB/sec
- NAND Flash: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface: SATA-II
- Low Power Consumption
- Lightweight (77g)
- Shock Resistant
- Includes: 3.5" Adapter, screws, SATA & Power cables, step-by-step instructions.
- Acronis Cloning Software
- Warranty: 3 Years


Just £185.99 Inc. VAT

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Your second image still shows 64GB on the 128GB drive. :)

Looks pretty cheap for an SSD, will we be seeing higher capacity drives?
 
Good warranty compared to most having only 2 years, and with the mounting kit and Acronis too - makes this a very attractive proposition for anyone wanting to try SSD's. If I didn't have the Vertex's already I'd be sorely tempted by these - might even get one for a laptop at these prices.
 
they're pretty darn cheap!

pending a few review reads, I might grab two on payday :)
 
Yep they look nice. Read and write speeds are quite slow though compared with the OCZ vertex's. Much cheaper though. Will have to check what the reviews say.
 
What controller do these use? I'm assuming Samsung by the speeds, but wouldn't want to end up with one of the old jmicrons.
 
sorry for a dumb question but knowing absolutely nothing about SSD which will be faster one of these 64gb jobbies or a Western Digital VelociRaptor 150GB 10000RPM ?

Im looking for a fast drive just to put a few games on
 
Ninja Please! said:
Looks like half the price, but half the speed. (and then someone chimes in and says, "it's all about the access time") :p
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Right, but I look at it this way. For SSDs, access times are not a deal breaker for me unless they are rediculously slow. What is a deal breaker would be is how slow a drive is with reads/writes after the data has been accessed. I have no idea what the access time is on my Vertex 60GB (I think 0.1ms) but it reads 235MB and writes 150MB per second. The whole PC is super snappy stupid fast! :p

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=14195718&postcount=69

EDIT: Mods, Admins, I just realized the original intent of this thread is to promote the Kingston drives in our store. Sorry if I stepped on anyone's toes. Feel free to delete my post. :o
 
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5er driver said:
Right, but I look at it this way. For SSDs, access times are not a deal breaker for me unless they are rediculously slow. What is a deal breaker would be is how slow a drive is with reads/writes after the data has been accessed. I have no idea what the access time is on my Vertex 60GB (I think 0.1ms) but it reads 235MB and writes 150MB per second. The whole PC is super snappy stupid fast! :p

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=14195718&postcount=69
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As already stated SSD drives are all about the access time so long as they have a reasonable read/write speed.

In a recent review of 8 SSD drives, windows boot time was only 1 sec slower (16 secs vs 15secs with the fastest ssd drive) with 90mb/sec ssd compared to a 200+mb/sec drive. However a 40mb/sec ssd drive was a full 9 secs slower.

In general use, you would hardly notice the difference in speed as the ssd drive would be so much quicker than your old sata hard drive anyway. You would start and notice the difference if you kept all your data on the ssd but with ssd drives so small it is unlikely that you will be using them as your main data storage. And even at 100mb read/80mb write it is up there with the fastest stat drives anyway.

Secondly at half the money, if the small drop in speed really bothered you, you could always get two and raid them. That way for the same money you would have the same read/write speeds but double the capacity.
 
Greebo said:
Secondly at half the money, if the small drop in speed really bothered you, you could always get two and raid them. That way for the same money you would have the same read/write speeds but double the capacity.
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That's my thinking.. same speed, same price, but double the capacity :)
 
uv said:
That's my thinking.. same speed, same price, but double the capacity :)
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Yeah mine too. My old Raptors (36Gb 8mb cashe ones) are the slowest component in my pc atm. I feel that are really holding back its performance. 2 64Gb SSD's in raid 0 would be awesome. Just got to wait for pay day now :D
 
Read/write speed seems low(compard to some SSDs), but good disk space for the price. I personly would go for something a bit quicker, with less space (i wouldnt go SSD for storage space).

Can see a use for these, just not from me :p
 
EvilOne said:
Read/write speed seems low(compard to some SSDs), but good disk space for the price. I personly would go for something a bit quicker, with less space (i wouldnt go SSD for storage space).

Can see a use for these, just not from me :p
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Based on what though? A synthetic hard drive benchmark and a belief that 200mb/sec has to be sooooo much better than 100mb/sec because it's a bigger number?

The fact is that in real life performance a 100mb ssd drive might be a fraction aof a second slower at loading something compared with a 200mb ssd but would you notice this especially since both are so much zippier than a normal hard drive?

Personally I don't think the high transfer rate ssd drives are worth the extra premium. Okay, the vertex's have some other advantages such as the controller, regular firmware updates, wiper program etc but on pure speed, I can't see the point.

It's almost like saying you can have a 4Ghz cpu for £100 or a 4.2Ghz cpu for £200 but no point buying the 4ghz cpu as it's slower.

Yes, if you can afford it, get the best/fastest if value for money/bang for buck is not a concern.

Ideally, I would love a i765, 12gig ram, evga mobo, three gtx295's, 4 ssd drives in raid etc but the performance gain would not be worth the money (which I don't have anyway)

EDIT: I have just noticed that for this money you could buy three of these 64gb drives and have 192gb and 300mb/sec read and 240mb/sec write for less money than a OCZ Vertex Series 120GB with 200mb/sec read and 160mb/sec write so if speed really does bother you (I still say its pretty irrelevant) then this would be a much better setup.
 
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Have to agree with Greebo, more space, faster and cheaper!

the only problem is if there is no wiper program then it's a disappointment.

plus i dont know if 3 of these in RAID is basically asking for failure.
 
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