Kingston SSDNow V+ Series (2nd Gen) 128GB SSD Review

The SSD market is continuing to improve and while it is hardly breaking news, the benefits by adding an SSD drive to your system for OS booting reaps massive rewards. You can halve the time your system takes to boot just by adding one of the drives on test today.

The Kingston V+ Series 128GB drive proved to be a solid performer and while it seemed to have some performance issues with the IOMETER random synthetic read and write tests, this was never really that noticeable under real world conditions. We tested by loading multiple files within Windows and recorded very little differences between other drives. Sequential performance is exceptionally strong.

The drive is competitively priced in the UK, currently around the £250 price point which puts it on a par with other units from makers such as OCZ and Corsair. We particularly liked the bundle, including the cables and USB caddy for external portability.

We can strongly recommend the Kingston SSDNow V+ Series drive, it is one of the best drives we have found for boot times and it delivers a well rounded level of performance while offering a bundle unmatched by any other manufacturer. We feel the OCZ Vertex is the main competitor to this unit and although the Indilinx controller is clearly more mature the Kingston V+ drive is certainly not to be ignored.

KitGuru says: A solid performer and excellent bundle ensure this should be on your shortlist.

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