Kingston SSDNow V Series 2.5" 64GB SATA II Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SNV425-S2/64GB

Pros: 1) Price 2) it's a 2.5" SATA I/II drive, what more? 3) RAMMING SPEED! All boot times were taken after "Post", press Esc/F9 to get the boot selection menu, press enter and start the clock, stop clock when login screen appears On AC Netbook Netbook Tablet Tablet Power HDD SSD HDD SSD ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Boot 45sec 16sec 56sec 21sec Resume 27sec 12sec 31sec 22sec Wake 4sec 4sec 4sec 4sec On Batt Netbook Netbook Tablet Tablet Power HDD SSD HDD SSD ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Boot 45sec 16sec 65sec N/A Resume 24sec 12sec 32sec N/A Wake 4sec 4sec 5sec N/A HDtune v2.5 with SSD installed in the Netbook: Min - 82.7MB/sec Max - 102.2MB/sec Average - 100.6MB/sec Access Time - 0.3ms Burst Rate - 47.3MB/asec CPU Usage - 12.9% Netbook: Asus Eee 1005HA, 2G RAM, SDD=Hitachi 160G, Windows 7 Pro Tablet: HP tx2500z, 2G RAM, SD=WD3200BEKT 7200rpm, Windows 7 Pro After swapping HDD with SSD, Windows 7 was fresh installed, but I generally keep my O/S pret

Cons: Doesn't play well in 2.5" cases - I believe at max eSATA speed, it's drawing more power than USB power can handle (sticker on SSD shows 5v 0.9A). I tried 2 different 2.5" cases with eSATA that draws power from USB, drive would "disconnect" (heart attack!) during write of 1.5GB worth of files. I also tried 3.5" enclosure with brick PSU, it worked fine, but speed was about 100MB/sec. Via actual USB connection, HDtune reported 25MB/sec, 1) which still makes it USB device I've ever seen/tested 2) reveals the USB bottleneck (480Mb/sec? ya, right!) HDtune v2.5 with SSD installed in 2.5" eSATA enclosure attached to AMD Quad Core system: Min - 192.2MB/sec Max - 198.3MB/sec *I got dizzy about here* Average - 196.0MB/sec Access Time - 0.2ms Burst Rate - 62.8MB/asec CPU Usage - 5.1%

Overall Review: To verify TRIM support: 1) you need Windows 7 2) issue: fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify - if it returns 0 then it is on in Windows 7 I've been waiting almost 20 years for this... I used to work for DEC and used to drool over EZ54 (EZ54R) 428MB Solid-state Fast Single ended SCSI-2 'disk' drive to put in my Vaxstation 3100, but as I recall, they were about $1000/ea back then. Now, I'll never go back to HDD for boot drives, HDD will be used for cheaper storage, only. I won't even bother putting page/swap on HDD at this point...

Pros: Fast, cool. Boots Win7 in 15 seconds after bios hands off, 30-33 sec. from the time I push the button! Programs load faster and game loading screens are half as long. WEI score of 6.8 which is my lowest score

Cons: normal stuff like cost per gig but we all know that going into this.

Overall Review: I usualy here about something to upgrade my desktop with and get all exicted and spend $200 i don't have. Now I usually see performance increase but always have buyers remorse becuase its not enough to justify the cost. With this purchase I am happy with it no remorse as of yet! Now a warning, this is not going to be like magic and boot instantly so don't get your hopes to high or you will be disappointed. But you will notice the increase speed. My system: WEI 7.5 AMD Phenom 965 @ 3.93ghz 7.5 6gig ram 1333mhz AM3 ASUS motherboard 7.5 ATI 4870 6.8 Kingston 64GB SSD

Pros: UPDATE: My 1st "drive only" unit has been rock solid in my Asus Eee 1005HA and it's still getting around 100MB/sec. So I purchased my 2nd unit, this time this unit that included USB enclosure for HP tx2500z tablet with 2.4Ghz AMD CPU. This also includes Acronis True Image HD which will come in handy for cloning, etc. Not wanting to fool around with eSATA, I plugged SDD directly into my AMD Quad Core 2.5Ghz desktop's SATA and HD Tune 2.55 reports: Min - 199.6MB/sec Max - 205.1MB/sec Average - 204.1MB/sec Access Time - 0.2ms Burst Rate - 61.3MB/asec CPU Usage - 7.8% - this is single drive speed with no RAID involved at all, and pretty much 2x the MB/s of 3.5" 500G WD Scorpio Black. HP tx2500z tablet: Min - 68.1.6MB/sec Max - 149.3MB/sec Average - 144.5MB/sec Access Time - 0.3ms Burst Rate - 51.5MB/asec CPU Usage - 20.2% - Again, pretty much 2x the MB/s of 320G WD Scorpio it replaces in the tablet.

Cons: Not really a cons against this product... This time with a diff eSATA enclosure (Masscool eSATA/USB docking station) attached to AMD Quad Core 2.5Ghz desktop: Min - 106.9MB/sec Max - 107.9MB/sec Average - 107.4MB/sec Access Time - 0.2ms Burst Rate - 50.1MB/asec CPU Usage - 3.5% - very close to Eee 1005HA numbers which is limited to SATA 1.5Gb/sec, so I suspect that Masscool eSATA docking station is SATA 1.5Gb/sec, also. Using the USB enclosure that was included with the unit: Min - 24.1MB/sec Max - 24.5MB/sec Average - 24.3MB/sec Access Time - 0.7ms Burst Rate - 18.3MB/asec CPU Usage - 9.3%

Overall Review: RE: JJ0071 Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: more than 1 year "Cons: Within 6 mo's the SSD died." HUH!? I symphathize, but THIS particular product was only released in Feb 2010 so how could you have this for more than a year? If you have a gripe against some other Kingston product, you should review that specific product, not this one. Also, stick with SATA controller driver from MS/Win7 unless the controller's manufacturer driver includes TRIM support.

Pros: Was very fast when new, but has slowed down in the month since I've had it, with the Windows performance index dropping from 6.8 to 5.9, whatever that's worth. (No noticible slowdown, and still faster than my old drive.)

Cons: Bought this because the price was good after rebate, but Kingston turned down my rebate saying they didn't get a UPC, even though it was taped to the rebate form I mailed in. (There is no way to contact the rebate department; no email and only a robot on the phone line.) Don't trust Kingston rebates.

Overall Review: I am putting together another system for work, and was considering one of these or the V+ series, but they involve rebates as well and I'd rather not get robbed twice. Plus, I'm stubborn enough to avoid Kingston products until they send my rebate.

Pros: ok i use this for a os drive. (win7x64) & wow this flys in speed. comming from a 7200rpm hdd that i use to have my os on. the hdd is no way near as fast. now i know most of you are like "ok but thay do have faster ones". buts its the $$ here for this ssd thats the ticket here. #1 its cheap #2 is a heck of a lot faster then hdd's. plus this make a perf os/programs only drive. boot times are insane & loading programs is sick!!.. 13 sec booted up & opening programs!!!! for this price this is the best investment ive made for data drives. out with the old in with the new ;-)

Cons: not really a con but it would of been nice to have this thing to auto set your bios to have it run in achi mode.

Overall Review: as ive said in cons if you want the best out of this go in your bios & run this bad boy in ACHI mode. alot of ppl still think this is the age of ide. well that may be so with hdds but not with sdd's.. also turn off readyboost, systm protection indexing & so on.. (goolge what should i turn off for ssd drives) thay also have a tool on the web too help you do this eazy'er called "SSDTweaker" to help turn off all the stuff you really dont need running on your ssd drive. if you have a hdd that your not gona use anymore for your os. format it then put your page file on that.( good for backing up as well) do not use paging files on a ssd. it will shorten its life. along with all the above ive said that will shorten its life as well if your not on top of that. i plan on getting a much faster more biger sized one for my gaming drive. ssd is that dang gone good...

Pros: This is a GREAT entry level SSD. If your looking to give SSD's a test run before sending big bucks on higher capacity/speed, this is the place to start. 64GB is plenty enough space for your OS and primary applications. Everything runs lighting fast. Fastest boot time I recorded with 8GB of DDR3 RAM, Q6600, Win 7 x64 is 13 seconds.

Cons: SATA power and data headers on SSD are a little flimsy, but no big deal really.

Overall Review: Kingston support is absolutely amazing! I was routinely cleaning out my computer when I accidentally broke the power header on the SSD. I called in asking for a RMA and they handled everything over the phone in under ten minutes. I spoke to REAL people who actually had personality! They were extremely friendly and helpful. I sent the SSD out and my replacement came within a week! They stand behind their warranty!

Pros: using this to run Ivory piano library [35gb], now Logic doesn't give me any more slow disk messages. ssd doesn't get hot, doesn't make noise. will get another when the price comes down. so far i'm very pleased with the performance.

Cons: price per gb should come with a bracket at this price

Pros: i bought this to replace my WD raptor 10k rpm 300GB drive. i've noticed that windows boots faster and games load faster.

Cons: the speed increase isn't all that big and it wasn't really worth the money.

Overall Review: SSDs are still in the early stages. i probably should have waited another year to buy one. i'm currently waiting to see if Crucial can fix the speed-consistency issue with their SATA3 C300 SSD. if so, i'll get one, but until then i'm not spending any more money on SSDs.