Kingston V310 960GB SSD Review

The Kingston V310 960GB SSD arrives in a small blister pack with the drive on full view, protected behind a plastic cover. They will also be selling the ‘upgrade kit' version of this product which includes a 3.5″ bracket, mounting screws, power cables, external enclosure and cloning software.

Nothing much on the back, apart from the fact we learn that the drive was assembled in Taiwan.

This is the bundle light version – just a bay adapter included.

The V310 arrives in a familiar looking chassis with the red Kingston logo clearly visible far left. The rear of the unit is naked. The drive is sealed with tiny T6 Torx screw heads – these are very prone to stripping easily if you aren't careful. Obviously you will invalidate the warranty if you open the drive anyway, so we don't recommend you try. We are here for that.

The Kingston V310 960GB SSD uses the Phison PS3108-S8 SATA III controller. We have seen this controller used in other value oriented drives such as the Corsair Force LS series in recent months.

They are using Micron NAND flash in this drive marked ‘NW510‘. Kingston don't make a point of detailing this NAND in their PR literature however we can see from the images above that it is 20nm MLC. It is also worth pointing out that Kingston have came under some negative attention for changing the NAND in their V300 budget drive without any kind of warning – you can see a report on this at Anandtech – here.

When the Kingston V310 960GB SSD is formatted in Windows, there is 894GB available to the operating system.

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