Kingston SSDNOW V Series 30GB MLC SATA300

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 22 expert reviews

Excellent:

6
Good:

10
Average:

2
Bad:

4

Pros:

Respectable read speeds, Overall performance is just fine for most uses, Competitively priced, Bundle of accessories makes installation easy
Great price for people to get their hands on a SSD, Performs as advertised, The desktop bundle has everything you need to install the drive, Supports Windows 7 TRIM.
Faster than Kingston specs, TRIM Support, Inexpensive

Cons:

Slow write speeds
Rather slow write speeds

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Last revision on September 9, 2011

Reviewers Liked

Respectable read speeds, Overall performance is just fine for most uses, Competitively priced, Bundle of accessories makes installation easy
Great price for people to get their hands on a SSD, Performs as advertised, The desktop bundle has everything you need to install the drive, Supports Windows 7 TRIM
Faster than Kingston specs, TRIM Support, Inexpensive
Capacity, Price
Complete Kit, Low Power
Good value, Solid application open times, Comes with upgrade kit, Attractive casing

Reviewers Didn't Like

Slow write speeds
Rather slow write speeds
Performance
Higher Per Gigabyte Cost Than Platter Drives
Weak write performance, Poor performance under stress

Expert reviews and ratings

High levels of performance, combined with a very tempting price point make this drive a...

By Kitguru.net on November 18, 2010

It usually turns out that you get what you pay for: if you can’t budget for more than the cheapest SSD and absolutely need the ruggedness and silence of such as device (rather than performance), then the Kingston drive wins by default as the...

By Bit-tech.net on August 26, 2010

It should be noted that the 30GB model is really aimed at being a boot/OS drive and those who want to install applications without a dedicated storage drive will want to purchase the higher capacity models in the series (64GB for £99) or combine two of...

By HardwareHeaven on June 20, 2010

3 versions for 3 usages The Kingston SSDnow V series 64GB comes in 3 versions: either on its own, with a 3.5-inch bay to install it in a PC, or as an improvement kit for laptop (with cable and cloning software). You can easily use it as a system disk...

By DigitalVersus on May 19, 2010

Many things would make our computing lives simpler. A Euromillions lottery win, for instance, wouldn't exactly hurt. Even a little one that we had to share with a syndicate of bakers from Turin and a nice old lady from County Tipperary. At the very...

By TechRadar on May 08, 2010

On the whole, we got to say that we were not very impressed with the Kingston SSDNow V. While it had the stock HDD in the SL410 soundly beaten in most aspects, it failed to shine in the one area which mattered most: its random write performance. And...

By VR-Zone on May 01, 2010

100

Upgrading from a normal hard drive to a solid state drive can be quite expensive and for most people it really does not make that much sense. Solid state capacities are getting larger, but that just brings the price of the drives up even higher....

By ThinkComputers on March 08, 2010

The Kinston SSDNow V Series Boot Drive is an inexpensive and easy solution to speed up your computer.The price of SSD drives now is still very high, and unfortunately out of reach for a lot of people out there, the Kingston SSDNow V boot drive offers...

By Testfreaks on March 08, 2010

The Kingston SSDNow V-Series 128 GB drive is a reasonable trade-off between the factors of price, data capacity and speed/performance. It might have performed better, but the drive's onboard controller holds it back. While considering this SSD, take...

By PCWorld India on January 25, 2010

Earlier this year I saw a demonstration of Solid State Storage demonstrated at an event currently I understand it is available in 64 and 128GB. I was sent a 64GB unit to review by Kingston, their price seems quite...

By GadgetSpeak on January 06, 2010

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