Kingston SSDNow V Series SNV125 128 GB SSD Solid State Disk Review

[KhaledMahmoud90]

I doubt that he is using the same macs with the same OSX ..

SSDs are obviously faster but not that much..

When the two macbooks are put aside, it appears that they are not real (notice the glossy black frame). He is not doing the test on the same machines :@@@

[NoobsAreUsh]

@KhaledMahmoud90 This SSD, albeit slow, has around 10 times the fourK read/write speed, if not more, compared to the 5400 HDD. Plus you can't even begin compare the rand access times of SSDs and HDDs. There's a reason why these things are selling you know

[ribak1983]

i strongly belive then there will be 128 bit 64mb L4 cache cpu from Intel,i just hope.

[IBenjaminHDI]

nice review

[ribak1983]

you look better when you are bold,but where is my 128 bit cpu?

[Satakarnak]

@ribak1983 ? ther is no 128 bit Cpu

[rochin77]

whats better intel x25 80gb or kingston 128gb ssd? ? ??

[FullSolo]

so you will only be able to have 128 gb of files on it?

[TheRecon4]

Thats pretty expensive compared to the Seagate hybrid ssd I am going to buy off of Newegg.com and its 500gb and I am also getting 4 gb of ram.

[Gameboygenius]

Would be more interesting to compare it to an Intel X25. :)

And I also heard that the Kingstons sometimes have problems with "hiccups" when you write to the disk.

[Aristowi]

SSD drive? isnt that redundant? (Solid State Drive Drive, hehe). I am just messing, great comparison!

[markchern]

thanks for the video, malaysia only release 30GB SSD Now soon.

[ARproxc]

@markchern what! just only 30gb SSD? so when 128gb SSD available in malaysia?

[markchern]

@ARproxc yes! malaysia still very lousy, even required for a broadband network customer service help still have to wait more than one week ( P1 WiMAX Malaysia )

[roqe666]

Toshiba crap drive is slooooow. Kingston isn't that much faster than my WD raptors raid0

[gulllars]

True, and your raptors can beat it at 4KB random write. However, considering it's a single drive and that it can actually be used in a laptop, you can't come anywhere close to this performance with HDDs in a laptop.

But like he says in the video, these are clearly not the fastest SSDs around. They are second generation JMicron (same as in OCZ Core V2 and Apex / Gskill Titan), and may experience pauses and freezing during times of high random writes (installing updates and drivers, updating, etc)

[austinwangg]

wait howd u get mac osx on a toshiba harddrive........

[qfour20]

@austinwangg I think Apple uses toshiba drives in the mac's, maybe thats why

[roflschofel]

@qfour20 They also have Toshiba controllers on their SSDs ;_;

[8800productionZ]

is that V- or V+ series?

[Nevigo]

These thingies are the future.Talk about speed.

[clemvall]

Id like to see a test copying 1Gb of 8kb files

you might be surprised

[motherboardsorg]

V+ series is entry level SSD!!

[Busterg128]

V+ is out and twice as fast too.

[hcitecnarf]

I love solid states but I do think that the hard drive truly isn't THAT slow...on any computer Safari will load in about 2 seconds...

[bonghwang]

Doc. This is AWESOME video. Crystal Clear. Do for Sapphire one too.

[emerysteele]

Dude! This is awesome. I just purchased one from newegg. Should be here in a couple of days. I can't wait! =D

[DijaySingh]

so how has been the performance of your computer with the new ssd drive? are you satisfied?

[emerysteele]

The performance of my computer has definitely increased, but the hard drive is still the bottle neck of my PC. I am not disappointed, but I'm also not extremely enthused. It is worth the price, but if I was to buy another SSD, I would probably dish out the extra few hundred dollars to get one with faster read and write.