Kingston SSDNow V Series 30GB 2.5IN SATA Solid State Disk Flash Drive

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I like the SST disk. It is rapidly and WIN7 boots ready in less than five seconds. Incredibly fast I/O. You have to set the paging (Virtual Memory) to about 3 or four gig otherwise your disk is complete. Sits at 15.7 gig following service pack 1. I have WIN7 on this disk with all the other applications loaded to a 500gig WD 7200 rpm as the D. I did this type of setup for my laptop. No raid but, almost everything pops proper soon after the click. High price for little size. I could have offered it a five, but the size was a factor. It cleans with three passes and defrags in about 5 minutes.

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-TRIM help-Value-Gives off barely any heat-Really rapid!-dependable-I put two of these in RAID and i am finding incredible results, simply the greatest upgrade for your pc that you can get in relation to speed. -Nothing at all for this distinct product but SSD's are high priced and have low capacity unless you invest a lot of $, but when once more absolutely nothing against this product. -This is worth the funds! If you have income for a new upgrade to your laptop or computer get an SSD, your overall speed will absolutly be enhanced incredibly noticeably.

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I purchased it from New egg.com about $ 60 with discount code and mail in rebate is ฤ and net cost to me is $ 40 for 30 GB. I have installed this Drive in my Lenovo Q110 cute desktop which I am using for my Toshiba HDTV. This SSD boots inside 1 minutes. I think I can not get much better result than this since I have installed it in desktop which has atom processor and Atom itself is slow. If I install it in laptop with dual core or higher processor then speed would have been unique. But for big laptop, this 30 GB difficult drive is modest. In atom processor Lenovo Q110 I have installed windows 7 residence premium and that operating program occupies pretty much 20 GB and this drive is 30 GB but in practice in fact it is 28 GB. Modest capacity ONLY 30 GB AND In fact IT IS 28 GB PRACTICALLY WHEN INSTALLED and efficiency speed is not that considerably what is expected or claimed for SOLID STAT Hard DRIVE.

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is not the fastest but more rapidly than a velociraptor I don't care what any individual says. does its job if 30 gigs is all u need buy it. if your employing for an os drive for win 7 it can be carried out, but significantly function is involved in altering certian file places and so on. i Excellent purchase it genuinely is.

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Under 20 second Windows 7 start out up when it worksLow heatNo noiseInexpensive Failure upon startup. So I had this crazy thought that a Kingston SSD boot up drive would be a good investment. Turns out it wasn't. 1st off, the program BSOD's suitable off the bat giving code: page_fault_in_nonpaged_area, giving the green light for drive failure. However, upon restart, it boots up fine suitable into Windows 7. Strange don't you think? It only took me about a dozen startups to comprehend it was due to cold starting. Once the drive has been on to warm up, it's fine... for the most portion. When it finally does boot into Windows, it occasionally likes to corrupt system files, occasionally temporarily and also permanently, giving you slow performance and laggy controls. Certain functions of Windows simply disappear. For example, my Windows Network Diagnostics doesn't work anymore, hence I can't enter in my OWN wep code and use my own internet!! Confident I can reformat and refresh the program, but why waste my time when I can simply RMA it and acquire a additional trustworthy drive. Not dependable! Not advised! RMA at once!!

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This is a WONDERFUL little OS drive. It's not useful for much more but it took my boot time from 30+sec down to 7 sec flat!!!

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I bought this for an OS drive in my HTPC. I have the 64 GB version in my gaming rig as an OS drive as well. They run nice and fast and are very cheap when compared to other SSD's.

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I bought this drive to use on a small Linux platform for a very lightweight server application for home. The application frequently writes-out audit information and some logging data to a nilfs2 file system partition.When the application is not running, everything is fine, and the read speed seems quite good. But when the application is running, every slows-down to a crawl.While troubleshooting, I replaced the drive with both a 5400RPM 2.5" mechanical drive and different model of SSD drive, and in both cases, there was no appreciable degradation when the app was running compared to when it was not.This drive is probably fine as a "boot drive" or for uses where there is not a lot of random writes, but for my use it sucked.

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ุ after Rebate and discount. None however Sent ฤ Rebate in yesterday.Hope it will last 3 years

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Got this SDD on sale for $60 to use in-conjunction with Intel Smart Response to cache my 1TB HDD. The faster read speeds helped improve loading times. But the very slow write speeds puts a handicap on file transfers. If I paid the full $90 I would have sent it back due to the slow read speeds, but for 60 bucks I'm able to live with it until I can get a 60GB Vertex 3 on sale.

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Quick enough shipping as I got it prior to lunch currently ad of writing this evaluation. It is as fast as they advertise and the quality is what I was expecting this far. Restricted spaceHigh cost per GB The machine is somewhat faster with this getting applied as a paging drive.

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Great little SSD on sale, I'm using this in my media center PC for the OS drive with no issues so far.

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60GB SSDs are a better value these days, but at the time of purchase it was a great deal ($69). Although this drive has slow write speeds, for use as a Windows Partition that fact didn't matter much. The system would boot up quicker than with a hard drive and it helped keep the system noise down. What I really liked was the fact my windows desktop was more responsive during heavy moments of system load than when I was using a system hard drive.It was not a night and day difference between this SSD and a fast HDD, but the subtle differences were well worth it.Sadly, this drive died after 6 months of use, but at least it is still covered under warranty. This is my second SSD to die on me after a few months of use. My other was an OCZ Vertex. I recently purchased 3 more solid state drives however, and I'm just hoping these problems don't persist.Don't trick yourself into thinking SSDs are more reliable than a Hard Drive -- that ain't fact yet. If reliability matters to you, I would suggest Intel-branded SSD gear as your best bet and possibly RAID-1.3/5 stars, down from 4 due to the drive failure.

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Just bought this a little while ago. Preforms really well, boot time is significantly reduced. Only downside is that its small size causes you to have to prioritize what programs you want on it. Fits Win7 + Office 2010 + All drivers + Trading apps + 3 gb free space.... So not lots of room, but as i said, great boot time, would totally reccomend this if boot time/ app launch needs to be faster!

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I bought this for small personal files in my system, which worked great.90% of the time its in my system, other 10% its in my external at work.Easy to travel with, being so light.

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At the sales price from NCIX, this was truly a fantastic upgrade for me from a Raptor 74gb as system drive. 30gb capacity does mean I have to install Adobe suite on my Samsung 1T drive, but with Windows 7 and other commonly used programs installed on the SSD, the performance increase from my old raptor is massive.

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I installed this drive in an older machine as a boot partition, without reinstalling. Simply cloned the partition from the old drive onto this drive. From the first time it booted, the performance boost was immense. Opening Firefox, Outlook, Office, etc happen instantly. This is the third SSD I have purchased, I also have an OCZ Vertex and G.Skill Falcon. The behaviour of this drive is definitely on par with both of those models, at a much lower price.Downside to installing this in an older machine is that there is no way to clean the drive. Unless maintained properly, SSDs get a bit slower on writes over time due to the architecture. On Windows 7, this drive will maintain itself, as it supports the use of the TRIM command. However, on XP TRIM is not natively supported. Many other drives (OCZ in particular) ship with utilities that can periodically TRIM the drive when it starts to slow down, but there is no such option for this device. Best bet, based on my research, is to get an Ubuntu Linux LiveCD or LiveUSB disc to periodically boot into and run HDParm to clean up the drive.One other issue is that there's no Kingston firmware support for this drive. I don't think this is a big deal, since it does what it needs to do right out of the box, particularly on Win7.Having said all of that, the performance hit you get is not really the end of the world. The drive is still an order of magnitude faster than a traditional hard drive. If you didn't know about the maintenance issue, you would most likely not ever notice it on your own. In summary, for the price this is a fantastic drive, particularly for an older system that is Win7 capable, but also for older systems that just need a little boost to remain capable.

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I bought this on special a month ago since I needed a quiet drive and it performs as expected, great buy.

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This SSD drive meets my need to use on my laptop as boot drive so I can free up some space on my computer.