Kingston's SSDNow V+ series hits 512GB capacity, adds Trim support

Kingston's upping the ante on its solid state drive series in pretty much all the ways that count. The SSDNow V+ line boasts a 512GB upper limit, twice the previous generation, with iterative options for 256GB, 128GB, and 64GB. Read / write speeds have more than doubled to 230MB/sec and 180MB/sec, respectively. Best of all, these suckers now support TRIM. Prices range from as low as $268 for standalone 64GB an can go as high as $1968 for 512GB, with an extra $15 or so tacked on if you want the bundle instead -- still alluring, still not for the feint of funding, but the good news is, if you don't need Trim or the extra speed, the original SSDNow V series is available for much smaller dents on your wallet.

[Bowsa Posted Jan 25th 2010 8:13PM]

Ouch, my wallet doesn't like the price.

[The Shadow Posted Jan 25th 2010 8:16PM]

Come on, whats with Flash and Ram prices these days? My 4GB 1066 DDR2 has INCREASED in value 100% since July. Once memory prices go down this crap will start becoming cheap.

[infinityPlusOne Posted Jan 25th 2010 8:24PM]

@The Shadow

The same reason why it's so expensive to buy really old types of RAM... because it's OLD. DDR3 is the new DDR2. Has been for a while.

Similarly, try looking for an older CPU and see how much people are asking for. DDR2 isn't there yet, but just you wait.

[The Shadow Posted Jan 25th 2010 9:05PM]

@infinityPlusOne DDR3 prices didn't drop much at all in that time period, so while it is true that DDR2 would naturally rise, DDR3 didn't fall like it should of due to increased demand/decreased supply.

[Berkut Posted Jan 25th 2010 9:33PM]

@infinityPlusOne Well, somewhat correct but not entirely. You forgot about DDR3 prices going up as well. Early 2009 premium 6 gig of 1600 DDR3 was selling for $50-80, check prices again. They nearly doubled! Now, flash (USB, memory cards, etc) memory prices are dropping slower then they have being yet they are still dropping, unlike RAM prices. So, I would say RAM prices going up not just because DDR1 and DDR2 are being pulled from active manufacturing, but due to price fixing (something memory manufacturers done in the past and paid fines for) and weakening dollar. Either way, SSD's are closer to flash memory then RAM, when it comes to manufacturing process, so lets hope that their prices will continue to slowly decrease as time goes.

[Nitesh Posted Jan 25th 2010 8:17PM]

CURSE YOU MOORES LAW! WHY DIDN'T YOU ANTICIPATE THAT I HAVE THE PATIENCE OF A NOT PATIENT PERSON?!?!?

[M3 Posted Jan 25th 2010 8:24PM]

@pachi72
And yet they already have. A good 40-80GB SSD is all one needs for a very fast boot drive. HD's are still defacto for mass amounts of storage, but definably not speed.

[vlad the inhaler Posted Jan 25th 2010 8:24PM]

at that price you could just get a zdrive from ocz at the same capacity.

or one of those colossus drives.

either would give you much better performance.

[ryanplusplus Posted Jan 25th 2010 8:32PM]

@vlad the inhaler
Try sticking either of those in a notebook and you'll see why this is useful

[vlad the inhaler Posted Jan 25th 2010 10:15PM]

@ryanplusplus well in any case i dont see how this is new:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/super-talent-ships-1-500-2-5-inch-masterdrive-rx-512gb-ssd/

[ryxxui Posted Jan 25th 2010 8:25PM]

So, does this mean that my Kingston SSDNOW V 40GB is about to get updated to support TRIM? Because, I believe that they said that eventually they would release a firmware update for that, and these drives are looking pretty similar to my drive...

[ScienceProUSAcom Posted Jan 25th 2010 8:28PM]

@ryxxui

Indeed, I'm definitely looking for a TRIM supporting firmware update for the other Intel based SSDNow drives that are already on the market.

[jrm125 Posted Jan 25th 2010 8:29PM]

@pachi72

What does high definition have to do with it?

[YpoCaramel Posted Jan 25th 2010 8:38PM]

Everyone needs TRIM, really. Unless you want your SSD to get slower and slower over time...

[solu Posted Jan 25th 2010 8:46PM]

All the space we will save with 2.5" ssd's will just go towards making room for the ever increasing size of video cards

[dieselstation Posted Jan 25th 2010 9:12PM]

now.. when are they going to support TRIM for RAID 0?

[delphinus87 Posted Jan 25th 2010 9:14PM]

@pachi72
HDD*

keeps confusion down

[Rebel6381 Posted Jan 25th 2010 9:29PM]

Great! My wallet jumped off my desk and is now hiding in the space in the wall. I swear I wasn't gonna buy it...ok maybe that's a lie :P

[klamerus Posted Jan 25th 2010 9:52PM]

This link doesn't point to any 512 GB SSDs. The biggest is only a 256 GB.

[BWalworth Posted Jan 25th 2010 10:29PM]

I just ordered one of the 512gb units (to test for work, I love my job :-)

I'll let you guys know how it stands up to the Intel SSD's.

[cosmicinglewood Posted Jan 25th 2010 11:09PM]

Almost 3 big for 64gb, WTF- that is way over priced. And $2K for a 0.5 TB hard drive... LOL and people say that apple's hardware is overpriced!

[excelsium Posted Jan 26th 2010 11:17AM]

@cosmicinglewood

Yea.. I would think around $699 would be about realistic for one of these in 512Gb. odd.

[excelsium Posted Jan 26th 2010 11:22AM]

@cosmicinglewood

Ah.. well the 256Gb.. is $699 = $1398 for 2 of them.. equalling 512Gb... a $602 premium just 'cus it's 512Gb in one single drive unit.. zzzz.

[Stephen1229 Posted Jan 26th 2010 4:12PM]

@cosmicinglewood This has nothing to do with apple, nice try though

[Nimer55 Posted Jan 25th 2010 11:35PM]

Great, i was wondering what to do with all that extra cash i have....

I guess i'll get 30 of these in speed raid... Just kidding, cause you know, THAT would be a waste of money.. One is totally okay though... The performance gain is obviously worth all that cash...


(you guys can tell i'm kidding right?

[Oli D Posted Jan 26th 2010 2:36AM]

@pachi72

HDD = Great for huge storage, cheap per Gb
SSD = Awesome boot speeds, no bad sectors, no seek times, better reliability, but horrendously expensive per Gb at the moment.

They are two different products, personally, I use both to a good effect.