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The Kingston SSDNow V100 arrives in a striking purple accented box which highlights an image of the product on the front, as well as specifications on performance below. This particular model is rated at 250MB/s read and 230 MB/s write.
We received the Notebook upgrade bundle which includes the external USB 2.0 chassis and cable, Acronis True Image bootable DVD and literature. You can save £9 and get the drive on its own if you don't need any of these extras.
The external chassis deserves a special mention as it is a very neat little unit which offers USB 2.0 connectivity. By using Acronis you can mirror your current operating system drive across to the SSD without having to reinstall anything. A very welcome addition. You can also remove your current drive, plug it into the chassis then install the new SSD and boot from the DVD to mirror the OS across.
The Kingston SSD chassis is a metal coloured finish which looks great. There is a security sticker on the front, so removing the chassis will void your warranty. That is why we are here however, so you can see inside and hang onto your warranty.
This SSD utilises the Toshiba JMF618 controller which was designed in cooperation with JMicron. This is a new update to the JMF612 controller which means Kingston can offer a 256GB version of this drive to the consumer (using 32nm NAND). We can see 18 NAND flash memory chips which offer 8GB each. There is a Mira branded cache which also offers 64MB of memory to aid throughput.
