Kingston Technology Company - Solid State Drives

Whitepapers
	SSDNow vs HDD The white paper examines the technology of SSDNow and its potential application scenarios. The features and benefits of employing Solid-State Drives (SSDs) are introduced and costs vs. value considerations are explored. Read PDF		Effects of Solid-State Drives on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 This whitepaper contains the results of testing conducted to better understand how Kingston solid-state drives positively affect the scalability of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 databases. Read PDF

Reviews

The Inquirer 10 July 2009. Comparative Review between Kingston & A-Data. In summary, both of these inexpensive drives are a fairly good deal as long as they are not the only drive in a system. There are some numbers inconsistencies, but SSDs are still at an early stage of development, so varied controllers, caches and algorithms can affect the results. Until 200GB and larger SSDs become cheaper, the combination of a small SSD for OS and apps and secondary HDD for all the rest like downloaded videos, 3D models, game files or whatever you're into, makes the best sense in a decent mainstream PC... more

ITReview 19 June 2009. Kingston’s SSDNow V Series kits, available in 128GB and 64GB capacities, offer almost instant performance gains and power consumption reductions on existing desktops and laptops - but at a price. The price of SSDs are tumbling, but IDE and SATA storage is still by far the better price/performance option. For instance, a Western Digital Scorpio Blue (320GB, IDE, 5400rpm, 8MB cache) laptop drive can be purchased for as little as £62.40/ $86.99 and a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 (1.5TB, SATA-II, 7200rpm, 32MB cache) desktop drive comes in at just under £95/ $119. Besides Kingston’s best efforts, value isn’t the strongest selling point of the SSDNow V Series Kit... more

Tec Channel (Germany) 17 June 2009. The Kingston SSDNow V Series available in capacities of 64 and 128GB and is among the most favourable SSDs on the market. Included in the price of the V Series SSD are all the accessories required to upgrade... more

ChannelPartner (Germany) 29 June 2009. Super-cheap SSD Now V-Series SNV125-S2 from Kingston. Kingston's "SSD V-Series SNV125-S2" is extremely low priced and has extras like back-up software, The PC-Welt-Test reveals whether it's simplycheap or also any good. A tempting offer: Kingston's SSD Now V-Series SNV125-S2 64GB is without competition with regards to the GB-price even better: Kingston adds plenty of accessories to the product... more
Awards
Driver Heaven June 23, 2009. Kingston offers a Laptop version of this kit which includes a USB enclosure and the same software making the update process exceptionally simple on mobile systems. This is quite an impressive set of features for a value orientated product....in almost every test the V-Series outperforms a Western Digital Raptor and does so while using less power and generating less heat and noise...Due to its exceptional price point and great bundle the V-Series wins our Value Award... more

3DFusion.de June 2009. 3DFusion.de awards the Kingston SSDNow MSeries 80GB drive Silver Award "The drive is fast to access, high read speeds, low power consumption and heat loss, and with no moving parts means that it is more resistant to outside influences."

Dexgo.com April 2009 Dexgo.com wards Kingston SSDNow M-Series "The Kingston SSDNow M-Series with 80GB capacity is the only candidate we can fully recommend. In the pracitcal tests, this SSD was always the best or among the best ones."

PC Games Hardware April 2009 PC Games Hardware awards Kingston SSDNow E-Series 32GB "The data - resulting in expensive SLC-chips and in a sophisticated controller using NCQ – are extreme. More than 230MB/sec. reading, almost 200MB/sec. writing – the latter being more than the manufacturer is promising. Access time is beyond reproach. When reading or writing data it allows itself less the 10/2000 sec. No surprise that both copytests have been much faster as with any other drive in the review."

Fudzilla April 2009 Fudzilla reviews the Kingston SSDNow E-Series 32GB "We must admit that this device is simply flawless and it leaves the competition in a huge cloud of dust, but we still find it hard to believe that users will find it to be appealing with such high pricing … With that in mind, and the fact that this device is quiet, durable and an excellent performer, we could say that this devices golden times are yet to come... we dub Kingston SSDNow E 32GB a Fudzilla Recommended piece of kit."

user-profile.de April 2009 user-profile.de awards Kingston SSDNow M-Series "Kingston is giving is a futuristic pretaste. Weight, formfactor, robustness und last but not least the performance are stunning."

Noticias3D April 2009 Noticias3D reviews the Kingston SSDNow 80GB MSeries "The performance is excellent for both reading and writing, the benefits are plain to see that there is no noise, low heat, no vibration of any kind, adaptive and has a plethora of features although the price is high."

Clunk.org January 2009 Clunk.org reviews the Kingston SSDNow E Series 32GB "The Kingston SSDNow E-Series 32GB Solid State Drive is undoubtedly a force to be reckoned with. As far as hard drives go, it's an insanely specialised bit of kit and will not suit everyone, but if you do happen to need/want a drive that can match a six or eight (maybe more) disk RAID set up for IOPS and bandwidth, then this could be for you... To sum up, the Kingston SSDNow E-series 32GB SSD is indeed the fastest commerically available single SATA II hard drive available today, its silent, uses a tiny amount of power, takes up a minimal amount of space, has no moving parts, is cool."

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