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At KitGuru we spend a lot of time testing the latest and greatest components on the market for PC enthusiasts across the globe. But today we have set aside some time for Mac users, namely those who want to make the most out of their machine. Anyon...
A must have upgrade that definitely justifies the cost...
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We ran a feature on the feasibility of solid state storage last month, and pretty much came to the conclusion that it was a good idea to boost the performance of your computer. Providing you had the money to throw at it.Now, though, it’s time to get do...
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SSDs are now becoming far more common place in our gaming and work machines. The price tag might still be too high for many, but everyone can see the rediculous performance gains that can be made by moving to this flash based storage medium over tradi...
While I would have been ready to call this a bog standard SSD with middling performance, when you take into consideration the price tag it completely changes what the Kingston SSDNow is. It's not the boring looking performance drive it appears to be...
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The V+100 96GB is Kingston’s latest SSD, a mid-range disk based on the excellent V+ 64GB (Labs, Shopper 273) but with a third larger capacity. The 100-series improves on the original V+ with an always-on garbage collection feature, which performs the f...
The V+100 is a step up in performance from the original model and is well priced with plenty of extras...
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Unlike most solid state drives, the Kingston SSDNow V+ 180 comes in a smaller-than-usual 1.8-inch form factor. It's a type of drive found in a number of very small notebooks - a class of machine that has been historically challenging to upgrade. Conv...
A solid SSD from Kingston that delivers the reliability we'd expect and competitive performance...
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There's no such thing as a cheap solid state drive. But you do at least have the choice between merely pricey and downright punitive. The new Kingston SSDNow V+100 256GB falls into the former camp.At around £375 for 256GB of capacity, it's funny money...
Decent performance, good bundle, If the Toshiba controller is good enough for Apple...
Beaten by SandForce drives for performance, Cheaper than some SSDs, but not actually cheap...
There's no such thing as a cheap solid state drive. But you do at least have the choice between merely pricey and downright punitive. The new Kingston SSDNow V+100 256GB falls into the former camp.At around £375 for 256GB of capacity, it's funny money...
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Kingston has a pretty wide range of SSD models available, all tackling different areas of the desktop and laptop market. The SSD Now V+ 100 is the company's premium SATA 3GBps model, using a Toshiba T6UG1XBG controller chip to drive 128GB of MLC flash...
The Kingston SSD Now V+ 100 128GB used to impress us but now seems a bit middle of the road. Read our review...
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Kingston's budget range of SSDs is now getting somewhat long in the tooth, but it does still provide the best price/performance out of our testing. For the V series of drives Kingston uses a Jmicron JM618 controller chip, a budget controller at the bes...
Fantastic price per gigabyte of the Kingston SSD Now 100 128GB makes up for its slow performance. Read our review...
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computeractive.co.uk Updated: 2013-09-26 19:56:48
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Like the OCZ disk (click here to read our review), the Kingston SSDNow V100 is a solid state disk (SSD), designed to replace your computer's main hard disk to provide much faster loading and operating times for Windows and other programs.Although its R...
An impressive upgrade, but slightly overshadowed by the OCZ Vertex 2's performance...
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At the start of last year I told you about an early SSD unit from Kingston. Now around 18 months later the next generation of units are available in sizes giving a much larger capacity and of course the real advantage faster access...
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We’ve looked at several Kingston SSDs in the past, each of which impressed us with their combination of great performance and reasonable price. Because they use memory controllers designed by Toshiba instead of enthusiast-oriented Sandforce chips, each...
Surprising performance given its price, the V100 64GB is an excellent budget SSD that’s hard to beat...
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Consumer SSDs, while still nowhere near traditional platter-based hard disks when it comes to value, are starting to become affordable. Take Kingston’s new SSDNow drive. The V designation marks this out as a “value” drive, and it serves up 128GB of...
The Kingston SSDNOW V100 is a fast consumer drive at a reasonable price - by SSD standards...
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Consumer SSDs haven’t been around for long, but they’re quickly becoming affordable. They’re still nowhere near traditional platter-based disks when it comes to value, but prices have definitely been moving in the right direction for the past year or t...
A fast consumer drive at a reasonable price — by SSD standards, at least...
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Last week we showed you the new Kingston SSDNow V+100 that uses a new Toshiba controller and offers good mainstream performance, but the current price is quite a bit higher than what we wanted to see. Today we're looking at the new Kingston SSDNow...
When we concluded the Kingston SSDNow V+100 we noted that the drive had some very impressive features, but the high price kept us from scoring the drive with an award. The Kingston SSDNow V100 256GB loses some of the innovative features, but it also...
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