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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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insidehw.com Updated: 2011-10-14 01:12:31
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It’s our opinion that the new SSD generation has definitely brought new improvements, as well as made us change our perspective from the narrow-minded sequential read/write evaluation. The prices of the new models are very close to those from the previous generation, so if you’re already decidedly for buying a new SSD now, you might as well...
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One of the biggest surprises we learned at CES 2011 was that Kingston had joined Team SandForce for the SF-2000 Series of products. After CES we learned from Digitimes that Kingston was also moving to acquire a larger stake of controller manufactu...
The Kingston, Toshiba, JMicron partnership triangle is starting to produce some exciting products with good feature sets, but the SSDNow V+100 is still well behind current and upcoming products from SandForce and Marvell. With SandForce's recent ann...
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Kingston has put out several models of SSD's now and their most recent release are is the SSDNOW V+100 series available in 64GB, 96GB, 128GB, 256GB and 512GB capacities. If this naming convention sounds familiar, you'd be correct as they had an earl...
The Kingston V+100 128GB SSD is a much improved version of the V+ drives of an earlier generation and rivals the performance of others in its class. Bundled with a very generous set of accessories and "always on" garbage collection, Kingston has done...
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Kingston's SSDNow series of solid state drives have done very well in the marketplace due to their range of value to performance oriented drives which covers the needs of just about any user. Available since the end of 2010, the V100 series lands in...
The Kingston SSD Now V100 offers solid performance at a competitive price and should be on the short list of SSDs to buy. With its included bundle and Kingston's 24/7 support, it continues to be the bread and butter of their SSDNow lineup...
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Let me share a story with you. I was the network administrator for a group of small businesses and because I was mobile I was completely reliant on my laptop. Nine months after the rest of my team was let go for “budget reasons”, my hard drive died...
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tweaknews.net Updated: 2013-09-26 19:56:54
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To sum it up, the Kingston SSDNow V100 may not be the fastest SSD out there, but it's still a very competitive product in this quickly expanding market. If you're looking for a simple upgrade method that will result in a big step up in performance, th...
Good overall performance, Easy to upgrade using cloning software, 2.5” USB enclosure included, Excellent value...
Struggles a bit with 4k random reads/writes, Please ask any questions on this product HERE.
Kingston's SSD V100 kits prove that upgrading to a high performance drive doesn't have to come at a cost of time consuming OS re-installs and potentially lost files. Not only do the kits include a well-performing solid state drive, but you also get d...
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A year ago, the Indilinx appeared to be the best alternative to Intel-based controllers for the budget SSD market. While there are alternative SSD controllers available, such as JMicron, Marvell, and Toshiba, the Indilinx-based controller offers a bal...
TRIM Support, 24/7 Support, Excellent sequential read and write, Good bundle...
Weak in 4K read and write...
The latest JMicron controller has made an improvement in areas where the previous generation falls behind. The JM618 is at least able to offer decent performance against other controllers on the market. The drive still suffers during low 4K read and h...
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Torsten PllenProvided by: Kingston NLKingston NL were kind enough to send us their SSDNow V100 drive for reviewing. The drive is available with capacities of 64GB, 128GB and 256GB. You can get the bare drive, as well as a notebook or a desktop bundle...
Excellent performance on sequential drive access, Silky smooth operation as a system drive and completely stable, Fast access times, Completely silent operation, Fast operating system load times, Fast application loading, Easy to use 3.5“ adapter set, Clo...
Very slow when operating on small block sizes, Expensive with high cost per GB of user storage...
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Kingston SSDNOW V100 128GB SSD Review:Kingston's V100 128GB Solid State Drive (Part # SV100S2/128GZ) hits the market at $229 with read speads of 250MB/s and write speeds of 230MB/s. Check out our full video review and see if it's worth picking up...
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VR-Zone takes a look at the SSDNow V+100, a solid state drive from Kingston using a Toshiba controller.Kingston has been selling SSDs since 2008. Their first drives were rebranded Intel X-25s, and since them we've also seen JMicron and Samsung controllers...
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Ask anyone who owns an SSD, and they will tell you that it is the single most noticeable upgrade you can make to your existing PC (provided your PC is no more than a few years old). Unlike many products, which show higher “numbers” than their predecessors...
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We can see from our tests that the Kingston SSDNow V100 and Patriot Torqx 2 128 GB solid state drives perform similarly on the whole, even though...
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