Kingston SSDNow V+100 2.5" 96GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SVP100S2B/96GR

Pros: Great price (with rebate) Big performance boost for Atom powered netbook Nice accessory kit Enough capacity to get the job done More stable than some of the SSDs with Sandforce controllers

Cons: None. I've only had it for about a month but I've been using it daily with no problems at all <fingers crossed>

Overall Review: I installed this in an Acer Aspire One N450, and had to clone the entire drive with all of the space-consuming partitions in order for the partition to boot up. By shrinking the restore and boot partition I was able to regain 10GB of space for the primary partition.

Pros: I snagged this because of the generous rebate and, if the drive keeps working as well as it has been, that will make this a fantastic deal. I bought this to go in my Vista laptop, and moved the 120GB X25-M it already had to my desktop. I feel this Kingston drive is a tad bit snappier so far. It lives up to its specs in ATTO, for what that's worth. The cloning software on the bootable CDROM was very easy to use. I was up and running quickly and easily. Also - 3 year warranty. In addition to the above, the review on anandtech claims this drive has very low idle power usage. According to Kingston and anandtech, the drive's aggressive garbage collection scheme prevents most of the performance degradation you'd see on OSs lacking TRIM.

Cons: The review was concerned that the aforementioned garbage collection did increase power usage, and may have a negative effect on drive wear. That said, I feel comfortable with the warranty as a fallback.

Overall Review: Most reviews I saw were for the V 100, or the V+, but NOT this drive specifically. So be aware you're actually looking at the V+ 100 - it's the newer, faster, better one. Don't forget to turn off defragmenting for your SSD! Some mfrs recommend disabling Superfetch. Given that this feature is about overcoming slower HDDs, that's probably decent advice.

Pros: Fast and Easy. I put this in my older, but high-performance laptop. It boots Windows 7 3x faster and loads programs almost instantly.

Cons: None. Windows Experience Index doesn't know how to rate SSD's highly.

Overall Review: I got this on sale with a rebate. It may not be the fastest SSD, but I doubt anyone would notice a difference. Great drive. I recommend it.

Pros: This product is solid and works as intended. Using the software provided, I cloned a Windows XP installation (my work requires a computer more compatible with XP) and everything worked perfectly. I am very happy with the drive and confident that my installation will remain secure for quite some time.

Cons: Not really a con, but the Acronis software used for the installation will only recognize your drives if they are set up to be in AHCI mode in your bios. Because I am using Windows XP, I had mine set at IDE, but made the change to AHCI and everything worked fine for the installation, and I then changed it back to IDE.

Overall Review: If you want a relatively inexpensive and solid SSD for your OS and other applications that do not take up a lot of space, you really can't go wrong with this drive. I am very happy with this product.

Pros: Boots Windows XP Pro w SP3 in 5 to 8 seconds on my system! Has its own independent garbage collection feature built into the firmware which is basically trim support so this is a must for running XP. All applications have improved soo much its insane. Firefox, Office XP 2003, and my games load instantly and install times are cut down by almost more then half! This is definitely the way to go! Your computer will run as smooth as ever.

Cons: Why didn't you buy this yet?

Pros: Aggressive internal garbage collection maintains stable performance under OSes without TRIM support, or when RAIDed. Good sequential speeds, basically meets stated specs.

Cons: Fairly mediocre random read/write performance. Obviously far better than a mechanical HD, but rather slow for an SSD. Boot-up, app loading, etc. are zippy but not lightning fast. Not a huge deal, but no NCQ support at all.

Overall Review: At $1/GB with discounts and MIR it was too good a deal to pass up but the lackluster random performance makes the drive avoidable at or near MSRP.

Pros: My first SSD, easy to install, loads windows 7 in less then 10 seconds. It does the job. Also put one in my older laptop and it now it's snappy again.

Cons: None

Pros: With the rebate and all, cost around 1.02 a Gig, great price for the performance!

Cons: None!!