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Sweet, I was just about to order one this week for my HTPC. High speed silence here I come (-:]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/Feb 11th 2010 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/
128 GB not GG?]]>Feb 10th 2010 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/Feb 10th 2010 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/Feb 10th 2010 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/Feb 10th 2010 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/Feb 10th 2010 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/Feb 10th 2010 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/Feb 10th 2010 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/
Gee really?]]>Feb 10th 2010 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/I've never even HEARD of that before! That's awesome!]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/Feb 10th 2010 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/Feb 10th 2010 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/2. Have people comment on typo
3 ????
4. PROFIT!

....wait, that actually works.]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/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...]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/
High I guess, but still much lower than a standard disk drive. ]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/
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.]]>Feb 10th 2010 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/Feb 10th 2010 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/
Yeah sorry, i'm thinking of 3.5" drives which use ~8w]]>Feb 10th 2010 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/
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]]>Feb 10th 2010 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/
To slow digging up tech specs on my HDD :)]]>Feb 10th 2010 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/
In that case I wonder how warm it gets? In any case it's certainly going to be quicker than a Hitachi 5400 drive.]]>Feb 10th 2010 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/
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.]]>Feb 11th 2010 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/
I seriously expected (am still expecting) a firmware update for the previous gen Intel controller based drives.]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/
Very poor support from Kingston. I cannot recommend these products.]]>Feb 10th 2010 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/Feb 10th 2010 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/Feb 10th 2010 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/Feb 10th 2010 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/
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.]]>Feb 11th 2010 1:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/Feb 11th 2010 1:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/Feb 11th 2010 2:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/kingston-rolls-out-second-gen-ssdnow-v-series-drives/Feb 11th 2010 4:13PM