Final Thoughts
As we have stated earlier in the review this is an update to the already released V+ Series solid state drives form Kingston, a second-generation. So what really is new about these drives? Probably the most important thing that sticks out to most people is Windows 7 TRIM support. This improved the write performance of a solid state drives that use Windows 7. Also it seems like Kingston has done some work on the controller in the V+ Series. Write speeds are far superior to what they were on the original V+ Series. This is especially evident in HDTune’s Random Access test. The other difference is that the V+ series will now be available in a 512GB version!
These drives go on sale tomorrow and the current pricing looks like this: 64GB – $268, 128GB – $512, 256GB – $992 and 512GB – $1,969. These prices are of course MSRP and are for the drive only. Kingston is offering bundled versions of the V+ series drives that come with 3.5-inch to 2.5-inch drive brackets, and cables. Those bundle kits will sell for about $20 more than the normal drives.
When it comes down to it Kingston has made some great improvements to the original V+ series drive. It will be interesting to see how the pricing will change when the new SandForce based drives come out. Overall ThinkComputers give the Kingston SSDNow V+ 128GB Solid State Drive a 10 out of 10 score.
Pros:
– Far better write improvement over the original V+ Series drives
– Windows 7 TRIM support
– Available in up to 512GB capacities
Cons:
– None that I found
I read here about a second generation of V+ series. How can it be distinguished from the first V+ generation? I am not able to find anything about this second generation on Kingston's website. Is it about firmware? What firmware version does the tested unit have? This generation thing is rather confusing considering no difference in product name. The review here doesn't bother to tell something useful about this issue.
According to the PR, the difference should be TRIM support and better performance. Of course, the package also has changed. http://www.kingston.com/anz/press/2010/product/…
Any idea, if could be this SSD compatible with Mac Mini (Intel based, model late 2009, MAC OS X operating system)?
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REALY, I think the temps are too high. my PC runs at 23 C now a great cooler and fan with the case nto fit the 3 1/2 in slot, mightn br ideal. I ove fans and watercoolers, get out of the 1980ies and provide us customers with a more practical solid state HARD DRIVE with a cool 5 year replacement warrenty, heat kills all PCs and laptops.price is no problem if all is made correctly.(it's not impossible ) OK 🙂 an old builder of quality 🙂
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