Kingston rolls out second-gen SSDNow V Series drives
By Donald Melanson 
posted February 10th 2010 6:36PM
posted February 10th 2010 6:36PM
Kingston's already proven itself to be pretty proud of its SSDNow V Series drives, but it's still found some room for improvement, with it now rolling out its second generation batch of drives in the line. Available in your choice of 30GB, 64GB and 128GB capacities, the new drives promise some improved performance (with PCMark HDD 2005 scores of between 18,900 and 20,117), and join the company's V+ drives in adding support for Windows 7 TRIM functionality, which should help maintain the speed of the drives over their lifespan. As before, you'll also be able to choose between either standalone unit or a bundled kit for desktops or laptops, with prices ranging from $109.99 to $377.
Slowly becoming tolerable....
@Dante of the Inferno
Sweet, I was just about to order one this week for my HTPC. High speed silence here I come (-:
I dont see 30gb version anywhere
Spell check??
128 GB not GG?
Was a whole 128GG? That's new
just...a little.... cheaper.... nearly...there....
KINGSTON!!! It's great that you're making good 2.5" drives and all, but there are people still waiting for good 1.8" drives here!
No one will ever need a GG of hard drive space.
Sorry being so pedantic, so late.
Typo... GG instead of GB.
@Flaimdude
Gee really?
HOLY CRAP GUYS GG MUST STAND FOR GIGAGIGS!
I've never even HEARD of that before! That's awesome!
Now slightly more affordable!
GG - Gigaty Gigaty!
1. Spell GB wrong.
2. Have people comment on typo
3 ????
4. PROFIT!
....wait, that actually works.
From the source:
Power specs: 128GB, 64GB Active: 5.2W (TYP); Sleep: 0.7W (TYP)
Am I the only one who thinks that the power consumption is through the roof? Or am I missing something?
Feeling a bit disappointed as I was looking forward to Kingston releasing an update to their V series with TRIM support, but I this will definitely make me reconsider...
@Zerock
High I guess, but still much lower than a standard disk drive.
@Jimbob
Actually, its really high. A Hitachi travelstar 7k500 lists 1.8W with 0.2W standby. Seagate Momentus 7200.4 is 2.2W with 0.2W sleep. That's two 7200 rpm notebook drives The non-sleep numbers are during read/write(not seek which is what they use in advertising and is lower). Most 5400 use even less power.
@Zerock Yes that is pretty high. Eeek.
@NXTwoThou
Yeah sorry, i'm thinking of 3.5" drives which use ~8w
@Jimbob
That's the thing, it isn't.
Compared to 2.5" HDDs at least.
The current HDD in my laptop (a standard Hitachi 5400 RPM) has the following power consumption:
Sleep: 0.1 W
Read/Write avg: 1.4 W
Startup peak/max: 4.5W
Source:
http://www.hgst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/FFA370A7BF845F87862574FE0003054C/$file/TS5K500B_DS_final.pdf
@NXTwoThou
To slow digging up tech specs on my HDD :)
@Zerock
In that case I wonder how warm it gets? In any case it's certainly going to be quicker than a Hitachi 5400 drive.
@Zerock
SSDs regularly have higher max power consumption than disk drives. It's the fact that they have lower access times, write and read speeds that give them the advantage in power because they do what they need to do fast and return to idle mode for longer periods of time than disk drives can possibly hope to do.
Are you kidding me! I just bought one of these! And now they come out with a new version supporting TRIM?
I seriously expected (am still expecting) a firmware update for the previous gen Intel controller based drives.
@ScienceProUSAcom I also bought one of the original V series. I also expected a simple firmware update to support TRIM. I contacted Kingston and was advised that they will NOT be releasing a firmware update for the original V series and will not provide any type of wiper utility.
Very poor support from Kingston. I cannot recommend these products.
Hmm, 64GB for around $150... I just might have to put one of these in my work laptop...
yeah
Was considering upgrading my OS drive to an SSD. Anyone done this and what kind of speed increases are you experiencing in normal day-to-day use?
@x2Jiggy It depends on the SSD you get obviously, but beyond a doubt even though I was on a decent 7200rpm RAID0 array setup, going SSD was like... "woah".
Bootup and application launches are very noticeably improved, heck even the Windows 7 install onto the SSD went twice as fast as I recall it going on my raid array.
If you're running everything on a regular storage type single drive right now, you'll probably poop your pants a little bit.
now im really tempted to get one of these for my old laptop...hmmm
I'm thinking of putting these in a MBP, as generous as the 160Gb 5400rpm Netbook HDD was...
Just another re-badged Samsung, that consumers will pay more money on Kingston's mark-up.