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1990 First Kingston logo is developed. Using the ad for inspiration, it features a line drawing of modules going into an opened head.

1992 An artist named Fraser is commissioned to create a simple yet powerful version of the head that also reflects technology. He creates three or four comps; the one with a single head surrounded by computer equipment is chosen for the logo.

1993 – present His forehead has been modified and the computer equipment in the background removed but the Kingston Redhead, or “Rex,” as he is known to his friends, hasn’t changed much over the years. People everywhere recognize this icon as the symbol of the world’s independent memory leader.

Source: http://www.kingston.com/company/default.asp]]>Dec 2nd 2009 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Dec 2nd 2009 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Dec 2nd 2009 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/]]>Dec 2nd 2009 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Dec 3rd 2009 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Dec 2nd 2009 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/
What about just installing your OS and Software on a small SSD? Then putting the larger files like photos, music and videos on a HDD. I think that's a pretty viable option.]]>Dec 2nd 2009 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Dec 2nd 2009 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Did you guys even read the article? WTH?]]>Dec 2nd 2009 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Dec 2nd 2009 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/is it possible to replace the hard disk in a notebook with one of these? I don't need a ton of disk space so it may be perfect]]>Dec 2nd 2009 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Dec 3rd 2009 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Dec 3rd 2009 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/
But I think I'm going to wait until spring when there will probably be a next gen, or at least bump in capacity for the same price. 40GB is still just too small for me. Although I do remember years ago, upgrading my family PC to a 40GB HDD and it was an 'amazing' amount of storage. Oh how a few years change everything.]]>Dec 2nd 2009 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Dec 2nd 2009 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/
My pair of old raptors in Raid0 have faster read write times than this but the access time on SSD's are amazing.

40GB is a bit teeny though. Its fine as a boot disc on OSX or linux installs but vista/7 x64 installs can go well past 20GB. Fine if you want media on another drive but I quite like having my games on my fast boot drives as well as applications. A pair of these though, definitely worth a though.]]>Dec 3rd 2009 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/I can't use it as my primary HDD because it's can't hold the OS and all my files and I can't use it as my backup HDD because its can't hold all the files on my primary OS.

500GB at a minnimum required]]>Dec 2nd 2009 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/ It's for when you have 2 HDD's. This would be the OS drive.
]]>Dec 2nd 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Dec 2nd 2009 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Still, I hear it makes windows very snappy so that certainly sounds like win.

]]>Dec 2nd 2009 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/
Also, putting two normal drives in raid0 (which is a feature on most intel chipset mobos) helps the experience without sacrificing storage capacity and/or price. Sure, the access times are nowhere near SSDs, but it makes the gains even more marginal. You can make the same argument for SSDs I guess, but I'm personally waiting until my next mobo purchase with sata6 to try that.]]>Dec 2nd 2009 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Yeah, but you double the chance of storage failure and data loss/system down time. Speed/reliability should be just as important in measuring storage tech as storage space(especially since the HDD is the largest data throughput bottleneck on a system when funneling information to the cpu and also it is the most likely to cause the system to break). ]]>Dec 2nd 2009 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/I would not put a pagefile on current technology SSD's though, I don't think that's a good idea, I don't think they'll last long that way and they will get slower by the minute.
But as I said in another post, you can turn the pagefile off completely when you have enough RAM I'm told, so then that objection is covered.
Or make a tiny pagefile in a RAM disk if windows insists on one.]]>Dec 2nd 2009 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/With current technology, the chance of harddisk failture is low. Doubling a chance doesn't makes more realistic. Take lottery for example.]]>Dec 2nd 2009 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631&p=6) estimated with his usage it would take 980ish years to wear out - but the NAND cells loose their charge in about 10 years - which is plenty. You have any HDD's that lasted that long? Didn't think so.]]>Jan 7th 2010 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Dec 2nd 2009 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid]]>Dec 2nd 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/I think everyone is being taught the sensationalistic style these days. Stay tuned for daring rescue story in the 10 pm news (oh, we are not telling you that we will play it at 10:29 pm)
... stay tuned
... stay tuned
... and a 10 year old pulled a cat out of a 6 foot tall "tree"
... awww, so cute]]>Dec 2nd 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/
It's a blog, not a news si-- oh wait, nevermind, the redesign was supposed to change that.]]>Dec 2nd 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/
Thanks, but this isn't a news story it is a product review.]]>Dec 2nd 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Dec 2nd 2009 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/
as in TA-mater?]]>Dec 2nd 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Dec 2nd 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/
If you are serious about using a SSD for a typical system drive without pulling your hair out trying to finagle retarded installers from unzipping itself twice on the system temp directory, grab an OCZ Agility 120 or an Intel X25M (especially now that the firmware upgrade is out!). SSDs are expensive when you compare these drives to the disk-spinning ones, but the performance gains via SSD is the best bang-per-buck compared to any other upgrade for a modern system.

Of course if you don't care about performance, then you don't need to be concerned with SSDs. They're still expensive.]]>Dec 2nd 2009 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/This model is actually the intel x25-m g2 halved..
They have Intel controllers in them so there shouldn't be any performance issues
Also, since they are basically the same, expect the TRIM firmware for this one as well..]]>Dec 2nd 2009 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Dec 2nd 2009 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Dec 2nd 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Dec 2nd 2009 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/
I would put W7, adobe, and winrar, thats about it, all games and other programs on another drive. ]]>Dec 2nd 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/
It's also nice to have the system boot and be ready to go. Once I see the desktop, everything is up and usable within a second, vs. before having to wait for individual applications load one-by-one in the taskbar.]]>Dec 2nd 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Dec 2nd 2009 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/My understanding is that TRIM is not supported. I'm hoping that Kingston will adapt the new Intel firmware to these drives ASAP.]]>Dec 2nd 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=818]]>Dec 2nd 2009 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Intel just pushed out a new update today:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/intel-ssd-firmware-02hd-brings-back-trim-support-sans-bugs/]]>Dec 2nd 2009 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Dec 2nd 2009 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/It is $101 here http://www.consumerdepot.com/productstd.asp?id=10622509&referer=google]]>Dec 2nd 2009 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/Dec 2nd 2009 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/
The price for the 80GB X-25M drives is back up to $300 on newegg. I think it's best to wait for prices to come down. We're still in the early adopter phase.]]>Dec 2nd 2009 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/
$248 at Amazon, showing in stock on December 5th. I just ordered one. :)]]>Dec 2nd 2009 2:30PM