Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB
$115.69 - $153.81
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11 years ago
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB 2.5" SATA3 7mm Internal Solid State Drive
It's a hard drive. It's hard and it drives. :P
10 years ago
"Kingston V300 Upgrade kit - breathe new life into an ageing PC"
Solid State Drives Edited 4/8/15 Solid state disk (SSD) drives offer a lot of performance enhancements over conventional hard disks (HDD) and replacing an existing HDD with one will breathe new life into a sluggish system.
Pros:
- All you need to perform an easy upgrade to SSD at a good price
- Reputable/reliable manufacturer
Cons:
- Maxium size 480GB
- Not the fastest SSD but still much faster than a hard disk
13 years ago
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB SATA III SSD Review
In this review PCSTATS will be testing the 240GB Kingston SSDnow V300 SSD - a 6Gb/s SATA III drive rated by the manufacturer for sequential read speeds up to 450MB/s and write speeds up to 450MB/s.
9 years ago
Great price for the SSD, although not the best obviously
I would recommend this to people like me that do not need all that blazing speed. It really saves up my money so that I can spend it on things that can push more frames for me in games.
Pros:
- This SSD was a massive upgrade over my HDD - I did not realize how slow it was until I got this
- And to think this is one of the slower SSDs you can find - insane
- I don't need all that cutting edge performance because I just do regular stuff like browse the web, watch Twitch/YouTube, and game (not...
Cons:
- I had this SSD for a few months and it would intermittently cause the OS to freeze, especially when starting up a VM
- Upon searching I found that there was a firmware update for the SSD - 60AABBF0.
11 years ago
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half the speed of plextor m6s... & does get warm & eats double power compared to the m6s
Pros:
- Easy To Install
- Quiet
Cons:
- Runs Hot
- Slow
12 years ago
It sometimes costs less than better performing drives.
Cons:
- When first released and reviewed by the industry Kingston used synchronous NAND when building the V300's
- In later revisions they transitioned to using cheaper asynchronous NAND which has resulted in severely degraded performance and did nothing to make customers aware of the change
13 years ago
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 between five and 10 times faster than a traditional...
13 years ago
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB Solid State Drive
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.
Pros:
- » 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 and simple to use
Cons:
- » Poor
- but expected sequential read/write performance with incompressible data
13 years ago
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB Solid State Drive
As 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 memory chips.
Pros:
- 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 an upgrade kit
- Well constructed design,
Cons:
- Not as fast when writing incompressible data
13 years ago
Looking for an affordable SSD but demand a high-performance controller?
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