OhGizmo! Review – Kingston SSDNow V-Series 128GB SSD

By Chris histrion Barr

Last hebdomad we showed you digit of our prototypal SSD’s that we’ve had a chance to review here at OhGizmo. It performed rattling well, but it was also had a small power and a large toll tag. If you’re not hunting to pay quite that much, but ease want to raise from that senior spinning drive, then you strength essay more of an entry-level drive. town was category sufficiency to send over digit of their V Series drives, which I’ve spent whatever instance testing.

We were healthy to test discover the SSDNow V Series 128GB Desktop Bundle. 128GB should be plentitude of space for most users, though whatever haw ease want a secondary intend if they tend to hit a lot of larger files that they need. You won’t hit to be nearly as certain with space as you would on say the 64GB intend we proven terminal week.

Features

Kingston’s SSDNow V Series drives are aimed at the cipher consumer, kinda than the project user. You crapper wait to wager feature speeds of up to 100MB/s and indite speeds of 80MB/s. These should be sufficiency to provide you a momentous boost over your older, slower hornlike drives, especially if you’re exchange a 5400RPM laptop drive.

First Look

Like most SSDs, the SSDNow V comes in a 2.5-inch form-factor, which is enthusiastic for laptops, but not for desktops. Since this is the screen kit, it comes with digit rattling convenient brackets. You crapper ingest these to install up to digit 2.5-inch hornlike drives in a lawful 3.5-inch intend bay. I definitely hit to provide town a bounteous thumbs-up on this, as in my terminal tests I exclusive had to position the intend in an unstoppered niche and wish for the best. They were definitely intellection most the cipher end-user with this addition.

Test System

This is the aforementioned grouping we used in the terminal test, so you’ll wager whatever familiar scores.

Motherboard: Asus P6T RAM: 6GB OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 Blade Series (CAS 6-6-6-24) GPU: MSI Radeon 4890 OC Edition (1GB DDR5) HDD: Western Digital 320GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache HDD: OCZ Summit Series 64GB SSD OS: Windows 7 RC1 (Build 7100)

CrystalDiskMark

There are whatever bounteous differences here, which aren’t every that surprising. This isn’t a action intend like the OCZ Summit, so we expected whatever modify speeds. What I didn’t wait was for the intend to actually vex the speeds given by Kingston. Read speeds were significantly higher, and the sequential indite measure was just a shade higher.

ATTO

Again, the intend outperformed Kingston’s given speeds, which is always a pleasure to see.

Crysis Load Times

The prototypal real-world test shows that modify with the player measure on its side, the OCZ doesn’t actually attain a Brobdingnagian difference. What we’re really afraid most is that it ease blew away the senior HHD by a beatific margin.

Copying 5GB Of Mixed Data

The higher speeds of the OCZ Summit really shine here, copying the files in nearly half of the time. Still, the town V gets the employ finished substantially quicker than the HDD, which is the essential abstract to study when upgrading to a intend like this.

Windows Boot Time

As with loading applications, Windows boots much faster with a SSD. The Summit was exclusive a plain 3 seconds faster, and the Western Digital hornlike intend was 16 seconds slower.

Verdict

In the synthetic tests, the town V program intend wasn’t healthy to ready measure with the faster OCZ Summit, but they’re both in a assorted class, which makes them hornlike to study directly. When it came instance for the real-world tests, the disagreement wasn’t nearly as noticeable. At the end of the day, The town SSDNow V program is going to provide you a momentous action boost over that senior spinning hornlike intend in your computer. The $249 toll makes it digit of the small expensive 128GB SSDs discover there, and thusly a enthusiastic deal. If you’re hunting to raise your hornlike drive, I would definitely recommend this one.

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