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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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Wow thats a wicked bundle. love the little chassis idea for USB on the move.
Weird performance with that one benchmark, might just be a glitch with the app actually
Z how do you keep churning out these quality reviews, thats like 10 in a week. Take a break ! great review btw, drive looks good.
The intel drive is amazing, when you look at those figures, which are amazing already for the other drives, and it just canes them.
Nah, im not sold, I dont like kingston products generally. OCZ for me if I was buying one of these. How the hell is that macintosh booting up so fast btw?
I need to get an SSD, but ill probably opt for a value series, they are still too much money for me. id just like to try one as a boot drive.
I think SSds make more sense in laptops. no moving parts, lower power consumption. not saying they arent great performers, but mechanical drives in Raid 0 still hold up well and cost much less.
Its still £250, the writer makes it sound like its a £20 outlay. hey, its great getting this shit to review for nothing, but £250 pays my mortgage for a month ! wait until they drop to 100 quid then ill get excited!
Almost bought one of these last week then changed my mind. Just changed it again and bought one. thanks
Its nice to see these drives performing so well in the real world. the boot times make me want one, but its a lot of dosh. Maybe next month.
Thats a lovely bundle isnt it ? the caddy and cables etc. I remember the last SSD I bought last year, I had to run out when I realised it didnt even come with a friggin SATA CABLE! kingston needs to get some credit for this really.
SSD rock, but I just had a kid, so out of my price point right now, id be looking a cheap laptop for that price !
I had issues with Kingston in the past, im sure this is a great drive, but their name doesn’t give me a great sense of purchasing confidence. Corsair would be my choice, even though it seems a bit slower overall.
Fab review. I didnt know those applications existed. Just downloaded them and tried my own raptor. embarassing, i need to get a few SSds and raid em up. tried two of this in raid 0 yet zardon?