Kingston takes a bat to its SSDNow V Series drive
By Donald Melanson 
posted January 7th 2010 11:43AM
posted January 7th 2010 11:43AM
We put one of Kingston's SSDNow V Series drives through its paces last month, but we can't say we went quite as far as Kingston itself has gone in its latest demo video, which takes stress-testing to an all-American extreme. You can probably guess what happens next considering that Kingston is out boasting about the video, but, hey, it's not everyday that you get to see 256GB fly off the end of a bat.
[Thanks, Shane]
[Thanks, Shane]
What is wrong with these guys!!! LOL!!!
Nice that it takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. Sorry, that was horrible.
windows FAIL!
@funkyp56
Windows 7 has TRIM support. You'd be stupid to use an SSD with OS X, or any other operating system for just that reason. Fail harder troll.
@Solidstate89 Troll? TROLL??? How dare you!!!
eh.....I guess it was a little trollish.
Trim or not OSX Rocks!
@Solidstate89 If I switch to Mac, will they promise me a TrimJob?
@Solidstate89 SSDs are still faster than disks even without TRIM. I've been using a cheap 30GB SSD as my OSX system/boot drive for over a year now and it still outperforms standard SATA disks in most tests. Most SSDs don't support TRIM anyway.
So, you'd actually be stupid NOT to be using an SSD.
@grahamj
stupid or poor. I fall into the latter category.
Ouch.
Yes, but will it blend?
Okay, that was pretty impressive.
This one they aren't shouting about then as much...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2LggPk1o2I&feature=player_embedded
@MVMNT
Heh, oops.
@MVMNT still, the fact that they actually uploaded it is impressive... not many companies will show allow you to see a negative result
@MVMNT That one is in better shape than this one fared... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2vsrhu1I0s
@michael
kinda wish they had tried to boot the golf one...
Finally, a replacement for those expensive, hard-to-find baseballs.
So....what happens if the hit it with a magnetic bat??
@trackzero Same thing that happens when you hit it with a wooden bat, it goes flying across the field.
@trackzero SSDs are immune
@omo Heh...three decades of magnetic media is a little hard to shake off. What if....what if the magnetic bat acted as a lightning rod, and the drive was struck by *lightning* at the exact moment they struck the drive? Huh? WHERE'S YOUR DATA NOW??
....kids today, with yer semiconductor storage and yer pocket-sized quarter-terrabyte computers. In my day, our notebooks were BIGGER THAN YOUR BACKPACKS, storage was measured in MEGABYTES, and our drives couldn't get within THREE STATES of a refridgerator magnet or you'd be erased so good your grandpappy'd lose his data....You darn yahooligans GET OFF MY LAN!
@trackzero
Regular hard drives are mostly immune to rare earth or cheaper magnets as well. I tried corrupting a stack of hard drives with a subwoofer magnet from a busted car audio setup and they read just fine. It was only after I ran the magnet over the drive while it was spinning that I did lasting damage.. And not really to the data, all I did was scratch the platters.
Umm, ripoff. It was done here first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f73ZLIoSOeU
@blucheese
Dropping a SSD from 4 stories (inside a frigging pumpkin) =/= hitting it with a baseball bat.
"it's not everyday that you get to see 256GB fly off the end of a bat."
Well, you obviously don't live the baller lifestyle that I do. I eat 32GB microSD cards for breakfast.
-Taylor
@Taylor Yes Taylor
Happy Gilmore: "You eat 32 GB microSD cards for breakfast?!?"
Shooter McGavin: "No!"
well, until they show me the unedited version... I say smoke an mirrors man, smoke and mirrors.
That SSD is over $700 market value right now by the way.
@omo
Yea, too bad they're not affordable enough for me to buy one and put into my laptop which I will definitely not be hitting with a baseball bat/strapping to a bowling ball.
I get it, its a nice commercial and it is aimed at people like Lenovo customers who buy computers based on what they can withstand.
As a consumer, though, speed and price is more important. Especially the later.
@Jeff lol, you should just leave out "speed" because I'm sure that thing is super fast too.
What type of cable did they use?
please aim it at my window. thx.
I thought the batter was running to first base.
@Ortant No, in the new sport of SSD-ball, the batter and pitcher chase after the drive. Both score a run if they beat the cameraman.
Doesn't Kingston (with the exception of the 40GB model, that is actually just a rebranded Intel model) use jMicron controllers in their SSDs? That thing would've been better off destroyed.
@Solidstate89 nah. their E series are just rebadge intels. their V+ series (which is the one in the video I think) uses Sammy controllers.
if it didn't work after the hit, would they have posted the video?
@funkyp56 Yes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2vsrhu1I0s
So they would have put the SSD in the DVD-ROM tray, which is fine. But they didn't tell the computer to boot from the drive attached via external cable (be it eSATA or USB), so how would it know? I assume there's another hard drive inside the notebook which it boots from?
Sorry for being pessimistic btw. I just can't believe the SSD would work in that state (bended?! ouch).
Nevertheless, much more important, as already stated above, will it blend?
They should have done a full disk check and published the results of that.
Still doesn't make me want to spend upwards of $600 for as much space as I'd get on a sub $50 HDD. Hell, I'd rather spend half of that $600 and get me 2TB 6.0GBps 7200RPM 64MB Cache HDD.
Large capacity SSD = viable technology of the future, not today.
"Wow look at that it's starting"
0x0000007B UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME
"Quick, cut the video"