Kingston SSDNow V100 128GB SSD Review

At £200 inc vat, the Kingston SSDNow V100 128GB is clearly one of the best value for money solid state drives on the market. The read and write performance is certainly not lacking and within both a Windows and Macintosh environment the real world gains over a high quality mechanical drive are easily noticeable. Our Macintosh OSX 10.6.4 machine loved this particular drive, with a 17 second boot time and noticeable real world application speed benefits. Adding a high quality SSD to a Macintosh laptop really does feel like a massive upgrade.

While the drive alone is going to be available for £197 inc vat, we think paying the extra £9 for the enclosure, cabling and software is a worthwhile investment, especially if you are swapping out a drive with an operating system already configured.

Availability in the UK right now is fairly limited although we have been informed it should start appearing in many stores shortly. We will keep you updated on this page as that happens. Yoyotech should have stock very soon – monitor this page.

KitGuru says: High levels of performance, combined with a very tempting price point make this drive a winner.

Edit: 19th November, the price is lower than we expected and Dabs have it in stock now for £170 inc vat!

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