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The 120GB Kingston SSDNow V300 Series internal solid-state drive (SSD) is priced to appeal to ordinary consumers at £75, but it boasts a level of performance that sat at the top of the enthusiast’s market not so long ago...
Impressive performance, Great price, Upgrade bundle is also cheap, Three year warranty...
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An SSD upgrade is one of the best ways to breathe new life into an older system with a conventional hard drive. Even older, Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD-based systems that don't support the SATA 6G standard will see a huge speed increase when combined with a...
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This must be a frustrating time for any manufacturer producing SSDs with the SandForce controller. You're sat waiting for the next generation of controller while Marvell, OCZ and Samsung gleefully launch their own to entice the market. If you're a smaller...
Good performance, Competitively priced, Good accessories...
Incompressible data performance could be better, SandForce showing signs of age...
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SSD drives are slowly getting bigger, more quickly they are becoming lower priced. So is now the time to get one? Certainly the PC/notebook units I have reviewed that have at least a small SSD drive show a huge increase in booting speed...
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uk.hardware.info Updated:
2013-05-07 01:05:12
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Last November Kingston announced a new series of budget SSDs called SSDNow V300. Hardware.Info tested the 120GB model which is one of the most affordable SSDs currently on the market. The V300 may have a budget price, but it's certainly doesn't contai...
If you were looking for an affordable 120 or 128 GB SSD, Crucial and Samsing had good options with the v4 and the 840 (not Pro). Both of those did have limitations, the v4 is pretty slow compared to today's standards and the 840 is slow at writing data...
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Value means a lot in today’s SSD market and Kingston’s V300 series focuses on exactly that. With a combination of great performance alongside a highly competitive price and adequate capacity, the V300 240GB could be a perfect drive for first time SSD...
Kingston’s V300 240GB has something for everyone. First time buyers will appreciate its dollar per GB ratio and PC veterans won’t help but be impressed by its benchmark results. It’s been a long time since we’ve come across an SSD which balances its st...
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V300 dares to be a bit different. It may use the same SF2281 as many of its competitors but it runs a custom firmware and ONFI NAND which allows for excellent performance despite its relatively low price...
Kingston’s V-series SSDs have a long history of offering competitively priced solutions which tend to punch above their weight class on the performance front. This has endeared them to enthusiasts and novices alike since relatively low pricing and outs...
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Over the years, Kingston have been one of the leading manufacturers of solid state drives and their selection of drives range from entry level consumer options right up to their top end HyperX editions. Whilst it's great having a top end drive, most day t...
Since Kingston introduced the V series of drives a few years ago, the V has always stood for Value and this by all means stands true to this drive. The V300 is the fastest V series drive that we have seen to date (as one would expect) and along with a com...
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Just as you rise you shall fall because the only guarantees in life are death and taxes. The LSI SandForce SF-2281 has reached middle age and like every mid-life crisis, things are starting to change. The enthusiast performance crown changed hands i...
The Kingston V300 128GB is an odd drive in a category where we want to find consistency. The V300 128GB has some good points, some bad points and some points we really can't explain. The drive is different from most LSI SandForce SF-2281 products we'...
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Having looked at several of the last couple of iterations of the SSD Now series including the V200 128GB and V Series 128GB , its clear that Kingston is targeting the consumer looking to move from a mechanical drive to a solid state drive that does not wa...
Faster than specifications, Available in kit form, Low cost, Small 7mm form factor, Threeyear warranty...
Not the fastest drive...
One thing that is obvious right off the bat is that this drive is not meant to be the fastest drive on the block but to offer a gateway into the world of SSD ownership without blowing up the system budget. When the performance of the V300 120GB is compare...
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techradar.com/au/ Updated:
2014-04-14 01:22:47
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This must be a frustrating time for any manufacturer producing SSDs with the SandForce controller. You're sat waiting for the next generation of controller while Marvell, OCZ and Samsung gleefully launch their own to entice the market. If you're a smaller...
Good performance, Competitively priced, Good accessories...
Incompressible data performance could be better, SandForce showing signs of age...
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"You can't lift me up," this girl once said to me, making implications about by perceived lack of strength. "Why, because you are ninety percent my weight?" I quickly shot back, not exactly adhering to the two rules of life I always advise people; the...
Ahh, biased figures. I am rather tempted to say that the Kingston SSDNow V300 120GFB is slow, because it is rated at 'only' 450MB/s read, 450MB/s write, and 85,000 IOPS by the manufacturer -- but what gives? As I have mentioned earlier in the introduction...
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As there are great similarities in upgrading both types of machines, each Kingston kit contain the parts required to upgrade both types of machines. These kits are available in capacity from 60 to 480GB. However, the 240 and 480GBwill be the ones of most...
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techicize.com Updated:
2015-12-10 06:53:21
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Today we review the Kingston SSDNow v300 120GB – Kingston has launched a new SSD aimed to fill the gap between budget and performance drives.“LSI worked together with Kingston to deliver a customized high-performing solid-state drive solution for their co...
Kingston has got the balance perfect here, At the RRP its extremely competitive. Kingston & Sandforce have produced a great a product and the bar has been raised for it competitor's. We look forward to seeing more from Kingston in the future.PositivePerfo...
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Another year, another refresh. We usually see upgrades of previous models in an annual basis and for Kingston's consumer-oriented solid-state drives (SSD) it is no exception. Today we're back with another SSD review featuring Kingston's latest value-segme...
SSDs have saturated the market ever since the Thailand flooding which had hard drive prices soar to unwanted levels. Now that prices are steadying again, we see SSDs finally in place in nearly all shops with them filling that spot where consumers are look...
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The result from CrystalDiskMark.Now if you compare the stats with the Intel 330 series that I reviewed – they're quite similar, in real life conditions they perform no differently.For more details of the drive, please visit the official product page .The...
The drive is available at RM 299 but it doesn't come with an installation kit, and yet it costs more than the Intel 330 series of the same size that comes with an installation kit (RM 269)! I didn't buy an Intel 330 series because I already have one, so I...
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chip.com.my Updated:
2016-11-21 01:27:54
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The biggest barrier for users who are looking to upgrade to SSDs is typically not just limited to the price factor, but also the annoyance of having to back up and reinstall everything from scratch. Kingston has recently come up with a solution that cuts...
Decent performance, Cloning software included, Step by step guide...
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If you're looking to upgrade your OS drive to an SSD, you can't go wrong with the Kingston SSDNow V 300. They've even included a cloning software and a how-to video guide to make your task simpler.(previously published in issue February 2012)...
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The first step after getting a new hard drive, especially in this case, was slaying the dragon. The dragon, as if you don't know, requires slaying so that you can distill its heart into the two basic elements; dye so black that only a ninja can use it, an...
Though my system hasn't sped up as much as I was expecting, it certainly does copy to and from other storage media faster, and Windows has noted the marked improvement, even if I haven't...
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computershopper.com Updated:
2013-04-14 07:57:35
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For consumers, things have been improving on the SSD front for years now. The average cost per gigabyte keeps falling, while the performance of newer drives just gets better and better. Arguably, the rate of this change has accelerated in the last yea...
Available with comprehensive desktop or laptop installation kit, 7mm thickness for slim laptops, Consistent speed through most tests...
Performance in our benchmarks lagged behind less-costly alternatives...
This solid-performing drive is available with a handy installation kit for a small premium. Barring a price drop, though, it’s not the best balance of performance and price we’ve tested...
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While Kingston has put out some enthusiast level drives under their HyperX brand, their bread and butter lies with the more cost conscious consumer oriented drives or 'value' drives as they are known in the industry. As such, they have a number of V...
The V300 SSD line from Kingston aims to offer performance at a price that won't makeyou weak in the knees and by what we were able to discern, they hit their mark...
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The Great Alchemy Custom Sleeved Cable Kit Giveaway Presented by Futurelooks and BitFenix (Ends April 21st)- ENTER NOW!Consumers are looking for larger SSDs at lower price points and it seems the NAND manufacturers (Intel, Micron, etc) are dragging the...
Solid State Drives are the inevitable direction of storage technology but adoption is still slow. For a few months there it looked like we were getting closer to .50 cents a GB but then prices went back up. I don’t think it’s all that influenced by the...
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The 120GB Kingston SSDNow V300 Series SV300S3D7 internal solid-state drive (SSD) is priced to appeal to ordinary consumers but with performance that sat at the top of the enthusiasts market not so long ago. With a great price-per-GB ratio and strong perfo...
Great price/performance ratio. Priced well below $1 per GB.
Older SF-2181 loses speed in random read/writes, or when working with uncompressed data...
The 128GB Kingston SSDNow V300 Series SV300S3D7 internal solid-state drive pushes well below the $1 per GB price point without compromising drive performance...
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rwlabs.com Updated:
2013-05-04 01:20:45
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Kingston in their continuing focus on cost effective high performance Solid State Drives have launched a new series of drive, This new series is called SSDNOW V300. This new value oriented drive features a Kingston Branded SandForce 2281 Flash Proce...
Kingston is offering up the SSDNOW V300 120GB as a “Value Drive” and as such the V300 is has one of the best prices in its class. The V300 however is one of those rare drives that outclass the rest of the class because; it’s actually more of a performa...
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Kingston is one of the key brands in the solid state drive market, and we have looked at quite a few of their offerings over the short history of this type of storage media. This review is going to look at a 120GB unit from their SSDNow V300 series; model...
With compressible data this drive exceeded its rated read and write transfer speeds by 50MB/s, Win7 loading time of 23 seconds with an overclocked i5 2500k, Fair pricing, at less than $1/GB, Included Acronis disk cloning software is very effective...
Poor, but expected sequential read/write performance with incompressible data, Please drop by the Bigbruin.com Forum and feel free to post any comments or questions...
The Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB solid state drive covered in this review has a respectable capacity of 120GB. Although marketed as a "notebook bundle kit," this SSD will perform just the same in either a desktop or notebook environment. The included Acroni...
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The name Kingston is one of the most recognizable ones when it comes to memory storage, and in the past here at Myce we had the opportunity to take an in-depth look at some of their products such as the HyperX 3K and also the more affordable V+ 200. K...
Excellent operation as a system drive, Very good sequential read/write speeds, SATA 6Gbps support, 7mm thick, Outstanding contents inside the package, Good TRIM performance, 3 year warranty, Very affordable.
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Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowPositiveExcellent operation as a system drive.Very good sequential read/write speeds.SATA 6Gbps support.7mm thickOutstanding contents inside the package.Good TRIM performance.3 year war...
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KingstonAs the world’s largest independent manufacturer of memory products, Kingston Technology doesn't need much of an introduction. The company got its start in 1987, when the computer industry was suffering from a severe shortage of surface-mount m...
Available in 60GB, 120GB and 240GB capacities, SandForce SF-2281 processor, Toggle Mode NAND flash, Excellent sequential read and write speeds, SATA 6Gb/s interface, Supports SMART, TRIM and Garbage Collection, Available as stand-alone drive or as part of...
Not as fast when writing incompressible data...
The Kingston SSDNow V300 is an excellent choice for the cost-conscious consumer looking to upgrade their existing desktop or notebook PC. This new solid state drive combines LSI's SandForce SF-2281 controller with Toshiba's 19nm MLC Toggle Mode NAND f...
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This item can be found at the following stores: Solid State Drives are becoming the more cost effective upgrade to the traditional home computer. Adding a solid state drive will speed up Windows boot up time, will allow your applications to load...
Great performance, Accessories bundle, Price...
Would have liked to see a 5 year warranty...
I think these days many people choose an SSD based on the capacity of the drive vs the overall price. The SSDNow V300 enters the market at a very competitive price for the capacity you get. A quick look on Amazon shows the 120GB version of the V300 s...
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We have in our labs Kingston's latest solid-state drives (SSDs) for PCs and laptops, the SSDNow V300 Series. Designed to replace the existing SSDNow V200 models, the V300 should offer sequential read and write speeds of around 450MB/s - somewhere betwe...
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Just as you rise you shall fall because the only guarantees in life are death and taxes. The LSI SandForce SF-2281 has reached middle age and like every mid-life crisis, things are starting to change. The enthusiast performance crown changed hands i...
The Kingston V300 128GB is an odd drive in a category where we want to find consistency. The V300 128GB has some good points, some bad points and some points we really can't explain. The drive is different from most LSI SandForce SF-2281 products we'...
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xbitlabs.com Updated:
2013-06-06 02:32:36
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Unless you’re interested in solid state drives and keep track of all relevant news, the SSD market may seem to have been uneventful recently. This impression arises because of the limited number of SSD controllers available. The Samsung 840, Plextor M5...
Frankly speaking, we are rather wary of SandForce-based SSDs. Besides their past firmware flaws which took a lot of time to be corrected, we don’t like their susceptibility to performance degradation due to imperfect TRIM implementation whereas their...
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insidehw.com Updated:
2013-06-20 09:54:02
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Kingston V300: At last, Sandforce for the Value series The folks at Kingston have long shunned SandForce controllers in their Value SSD series. SSDNow V100 didn’t have one, because it was reserved only for the most expensive models back at the time. Wh...
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Today we look at the new V300 Drive from Kingston which is a Sandforce based drive pointed at the value segment to get a sub $1/GB drive to the masses, now lets see what this drive has to offer.[review_ad]The world of SSD's is constantly advancing and wit...
Excellent sequential performance, Great 4K performance, Potential for 85K IOPS, Special tuned controller/firmware between Kingston & LSI/Sandforce, Super Fast Read/Write, Under $1/GB...
Uncompressible data performance takes a hit (SF2281 issue Not independent to this model)...
The Kingston V300 aims and hits the mark on a value based SSD which also offers sub dollar per Gigabyte pricing and for this, it earns the Bjorn3D Golden Bear Award...
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Kingston's SSD lineup is as follows: They have HyperX-branded SSDs for enthusiasts and the mainstream market is catered by SSDNow brand. The HyperX SSDs have been fairly popular from what I've seen and we have also reviewed the regular HyperX as well as t...
I have one issue with the V300: There's nothing particular in it that would differentiate it from the other SandForce based SSDs. While Kingston said they did lots of customization and worked closely with SandForce/LSI, at least in our testing there aren'...
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We've seen solid state drives become very popular over the last couple of years, as prices have continued to drop and consumers are taking notice of the impressive overall system boost that SSDs can offer. And we've looked at many SandForce 2281-based dri...
Faster speeds than specification; robust accessory package; competitive price; customized controller by LSI...
SandForce 2281 struggles with incompressible data; not fastest SSD on the market...
Great overall combination of speed, accessories, and price for a solid purchase. Discuss in the Forum...
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Kingston is no stranger to SSDs; in fact, over the last five years the company has offered the most diverse repertoire of drives available. Specifically, it's utilized one or more generations of controllers from Toshiba, Marvell, JMicron, Samsung, and eve...
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proclockers.com Updated:
2014-01-29 01:46:43
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We have seem over the past year or so that the SSDNow series is aimed that the budget consumer. The one that wants the core essentials of a solid state drive without having to pay out the nose for it, this series from Kingston has been just that. Good to...
The Kingston SSDNow V300 is a very solid drive. If it wasn't labeled as a budget drive many would not have known. The Read performance is well enough to be a great source for a machine that is heavy in media file for streaming to various other devices. In...
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hardocp.com Updated:
2014-01-30 01:05:57
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Kingston has had much success over the years with their SSDNow series of SSDs which are aimed at the value segment of the market. Building upon that track record of success Kingston releases the SSDNow V300 SSDs . These SSDs might not top the performance...
For the capacities of 60GB and 120GB Kingston has managed to deliver a value-oriented SSD that will hold the TLC NAND sharks at bay. The test pool that we placed the 120GB Kingston SSDNow V300 into was definitely weighted against this value offering, yet...
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Upgrading to a Solid State Disk or SSD is one of the best performance enhancing upgrades that one can do to their PC. SSDs allow almost instant access to the stored data thanks to extremely low access times as well as high transfer rates. Essentially an S...
To test the Kingston SSDNow V300 240G Upgrade Kit I used ATTO disk benchmark and CrystalDisk Mark. These two programs give a pretty good indication of level of performance one can expect.Testing Methodology:Here are the results and the Kingston SSDNow V30...
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The result from CrystalDiskMark.Now if you compare the stats with the Intel 330 series that I reviewed – they're quite similar, in real life conditions they perform no differently.For more details of the drive, please visit the official product page .The...
The result from CrystalDiskMark. Now if you compare the stats with the Intel 330 series that I reviewed – they're quite similar, in real life conditions they perform no differently. For more details of the drive, please visit the official product page...
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The V300 is a unique Kingston SSD introduction as it is their first product using the new Toshiba 19nm NAND flash memory process, but also, this SSD is ‘SandForce Driven by LSI' and a key example of the success that can be had when two companies work clos...
The Kingston SSDVNow SSD enters the market as the first SSD to use new Toshiba 19nm Toggle mode DDR memory paired with the SandForce SF-2281 FSP. We are curious as to how many similar SSDs we may see introduced in the future for two reasons as the SF-228...
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Kingston entered the Solid-State Drive (SSD) market in 2008 and has been one of the more well known and trusted brands over the years. Last month Kingston announced a new drive in the SSDNow V300 series, the V310. The Kingston SSDNow V310 SSD is currently...
The Kingston SSDNow V310 960GB drive was designed to be a good drive at the value end of the consumer SSD market. Our testing of the drive found it to be a pretty solid drive with 552 MB/s read and 489MB/s write on the standard overlapped I/O benchmark in...
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pcstats.com Updated:
2014-11-20 07:08:02
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I haven't had much (if any) experience with Kingston SSDs. For that matter, the CanadaComputers geeks I spoke with in the store didn't know much about Kingston's SSDs either... I like to ask computer store employees which brands generate the highest numbe...
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During this year's CES several manufacturers found the opportunity not only to promote already existing SSD models but also to introduce brand new ones most of which followed the standard SATA III connection while surprisingly only a few were PCIex based...
Build Quality (SF2281/ Internal Thermal Pads/ Toshiba 19nm NAND), Very Good Performance, Bundle (2.5" USB Enclosure/ 3.5" bracket/ SATA III Cable/ SATA Power Connector/ Cloning Software), 3 Year Warranty With Free Technical Support, Available Bundles (SSD...
SandForce SF2281 Controller Is Getting Old...
For a mainstream/budget model the SSDNow V300 performed very well but unfortunately (although expected from a mainstream model) it did fall back in most tests from both the SSDNow KC100 we tested a few days ago and of course the two currently available Hy...
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HardCOREware.net Updated:
2015-03-04 13:03:33
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Kingston V300 Review – In the last year or so of our SSD reviews, one SSD controller has stood out above the rest in terms of offering the best performance for the price. Just about any SSD based on the SandForce controller is a good one in its price rang...
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So my wife was complaining, as wifes do, that her computer was slow. I upgraded it to a quad core CPU and doubled the ram but yet it was still too slow for her so I decided to get her an SSD which should be a drastic improvement over the mechanical drive...
Inexpensive, Decent performance overall...
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I would have to say that the Kingston V300 SSD is a nice upgrade over the Western Digital Caviar Black surely.The test results I got were odd sure, two say similar things and the other two say something similar as well but totally different from the first...
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The Kingston SSDNow series is the first SSD that I've got my hands on for review, before starting Hardware BBQ. It wasn't really a great drive (as with others since that's when 1st generation SSDs were rolling out) but now when you look at it, SSDs have c...
Good Read Speed, Good Sequential Read Response Time...
Write speed should be better for the price...
The pricing of all the three drives are as follows:Kingston UV300 240GBIndia UK US France INR 5,900/- NA NA NASanDisk Ultra II 240GBIndia UK US FranceNA £59.99 $79.99 EUR 82.99SanDisk Extreme Pro 240GBIndia UK US FranceRs. 9,532/- £87.99 $94.99 EUR...
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2016 is almost here and i still remember the time 7-8 years ago when the very first commercial solid state drives (SSDs) made their appearance in the market and gave everyone a glimpse into the future of computers. Today i don't know if things changed as...
Build Quality (SF-2281), Very Good Performance (Especially For A 3 Year Old Model), 128TBW / 1 Million Hours MTBF, 3 Year Warranty With Free Technical Support, Available Bundles (Notebook/Desktop Kits), Price (For Some)...
3 Years in The Market / NAND Flash Performance “Issue” (not encountered in our tests)...
I can't speak on behalf of all of you out there but I really hate it when people try to trick me and the same of course applies to manufacturers. So when a few months back I remembered the V300 “fiasco” I just had to make sure that our samp...
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For those in the market for a solid-state drive, the Kingston SSDNow V300 series offers a 120GB Serial ATA 3.0 SSD for less than $90 USD. How well does this SSD work on Linux? We have benchmarks at Phoronix done under Ubuntu and compared to a range of HDD...
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techsupportforum.com Updated:
2016-12-30 21:04:48
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With solid state drives on the rise as the new standard hard drive, and mechanical drives headed to the days of the CD, it's very likely we will be seeing SSDs completely replace mechanical drives in the near future.Today, I will be reviewing a new 240GB...
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Kingston as a brand has now been functioning for over 25 years and has become the leading supplier of memory and storage solution. There products offer the reliability and performance which consumers want from products these days and with the SSD market s...
After quiet some time with the SSDNow V300, all i can say is that Kingston has delivered an exceptional update to their value oriented SSDNow series. The V300 SSD in our benchmarking process came out as a pretty fast storage solution, one which even gave...
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The SanDisk SSD PLUS and the Kingston SSDNow V300, in their 120 GiB versions, are some of the most inexpensive SSDs avaliable at the market, which makes them extremely popular among users that want to speed up their computers without wasting too much mone...
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• Manufacturer: Kingston• Requirements: SATA-3 for best results, space for a 2.5″ driveThis 120GB drive falls under Kingston's V300 SSDNow range.It has an older LSI SandForce 2281 controller, which has been customized for Kingston and uses the T...
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![Kingston Technology SSDNow V300 2.5" 240 GB Serial ATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drives (SV300S37A/240G)](https://images.icecat.biz/img/brand/thumb/18_8d09cd2af5a44ca9a49b3493e9db517c.jpg "Kingston Technology SSDNow V300 2.5" 240 GB Serial ATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drives (SV300S37A/240G)")
