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Kingston 2.5 inch SSDNOW V-Series G2 SATA300

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Pros

Excellent speeds.
Silent and cool.
Power saving.
Attractive bundle.
Transfer bundles make drive swapping easy.

Cons

Expensive.
Draws more power than some HDDs.
Only half as fast as many consumer SSDs.

By Legion Hardware on October 10, 2010

The Kingston SSDNow V Series SNV425-S2 series is all about value, though having said that they do not fare too badly in terms of performance either. Although we did find some weaknesses when running synthetic benchmark applications such as random...

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By NotebookCheck on August 16, 2010

The Kingston SSDNow V made a good impression on us in most respects. Our review model (SNV425-S2/128GB) with 128 GB offers a very good price-performance ratio, starting at €257 (RRP including tax) for just the SSD. The current price online for...

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By BeHardware on July 26, 2010

With the size of pages and blocks of NAND increasing on these new chips, the controllers that use them will be aiming to make up for the losses in speed for smaller accesses that are inherent in these changes. Moreover, while this flash memory...

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By OCWorkBench on June 29, 2010

Kingston SSDNOW V Series 64GB Notebook Upgrade Kit SNV425-S2BN/64GB Reviewbluetooth 29 Jun 2010 For notebooks, SSDNow drives are a perfect replacement for hard drives resulting in faster, more reliable performance. Making this change...

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By TechTree on June 29, 2010

The Kingston SSDNow V-Series Series 128GB SSD, which is part of the Notebook Upgrade Kit, is certainly an impressive product with just about no cons. It has everything needed to enable smooth migration for your notebook from your current old hard...

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By X-bit Labs on June 29, 2010

We’ll do some summarizing now, starting from the Intel X25-V. Cutting it short, we like this product. Intel has come up with an affordable but rather fast SSD. It was especially good in our RAID0 array, providing both a large storage capacity and...

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By StorageReview on June 07, 2010

For casual users, the Kingston SSDNow V Series has one particularly alluring feature: price. Coming in under $300 for the 128GB version with one of the transfer bundles (or closer to $250 as a drive only), the V Series represents one of the better...

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By Techgage on May 05, 2010

The old rule of thumb that "if something is priced too good to be true then it usually is" certainly comes to mind here. There Kingston SNV425 has the unpleasant honor of delivering borderline performance and only acceptable responsiveness, often...

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By Hardware Secrets on April 12, 2010

After this big summary, one big question remains: which 128 GB SSD unit should you...

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By Pureoverclock on March 29, 2010

The SSDNow V SNV425-S2 128GB Solid State Drive is Kingston's mainstream model in the marketplace. Depending which bundle you decide upon, this SSD could cost as low as $260 USD. That is about $100 cheaper than competing Indilinx-based SSDs, a huge...

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