Kingston SSDNow V Series 64 GB SATA 3 GB/s 2.5- Inch Solid State Drive SNV425-S2/64GB

by Kingston

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.5 x 1 x 5 inches ; 8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00378KHUA
• Item model number: SNV425-S2/64GB
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank

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  Electronics > Computers & Accessories > Internal Laptop Components > Solid State Drives

• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 3, 2010

Product Description

Capacity: 64GB

Product Description

Kingston introduces its second generation SSDNow V solid-state drive to help consumers and organizations of all sizes enhance the performance of computers that have a Serial ATA (SATA) interface and thus extend the lifecycle. SSDNow V drives increase performance with impressive input and output operations per second (IOPS). With higher IOPS than a standar mechanical hard disk drive (HDD), SSDNow V allows for faster boot times and faster application loads than HDDs, ultimately making any user more productive. The SSDNow V consumes less power and generates less heat than a traditional HDD, at a fraction of the cost of a new system. With no moving parts, it can handle demanding conditions and this is perfect for road warriors and those who push the limits of their notebooks. Features include uses MLC NAND flash memory, shock resistant, handles S.M.A.R.T functions. Specs include 200MB/sec sequential read throughput, 110MB/sec write throughput, SATA 1.5GB/sec and 3.0 GB/sec interfaces.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best SSD for Windows XP, Vista and RAID?, March 22, 2010

By	Robert Salita "Software Developer" (CHI PAR PHX SYD PDX CLD NKC) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Kingston SSDNow V Series 64 GB SATA 3 GB/s 2.5- Inch Solid State Drive SNV425-S2/64GB (Electronics)

Rare that a product has so many winning benefits. My 2008 mid-range notebook is now getting up to 200MBs on sequential reads and 60MBs on sequential writes. That's a jump of 5x in read speed over the original HDD. The write speed is somewhat faster. Notebook now boots 3x faster. No more disk defragging for me, no more disk crashes, runs cooler and quieter. The only downside is living within the limits of this drive's capacity. You can always buy a larger SSD too.

The usual recommendation for an SSD is to buy one which supports the TRIM feature and use it with Windows 7. TRIM keeps a drive running at optimum speed. Yes, this drive supports TRIM. Very good. However, PCPerspective published an authoritative review on this drive questioning the commonly held notion that TRIM is a sine qua non feature when buying SSDs. Apparently, the drive's controller, a JMicron JMF618, has the smarts to keep the drive running at optimum speed without TRIM. If this is correct, it means that this drive can be coupled with non-TRIM operating systems such as Windows XP, Vista and RAID systems. A very radical claim indeed.

I strongly feel that SSDs are so fast and so much more reliable than a notebook's HDD that you really must buy one ASAP. You won't be disappointed. This is a very compelling SSD to buy because it has both TRIM and a superior drive controller. You can't go wrong.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not for gaming!, August 28, 2010

By	A. Wright "agw" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: Kingston SSDNow V Series 128 GB SATA 3 GB/s 2.5- Inch Solid State Drive SNV425-S2/128GB (Electronics)

The price per GB is great, but you get what you pay for. In my experience, gaming off of this drive produces stuttering and pauses whenever the game loads or writes data to or from the disk while gameplay is in progress.

This drive uses the JMicron controller which is known to cause this stuttering due to high random access latency, which is the time it takes before the read/write begins. After the read/write has begun, the throughput is great, so if you were using this drive to store large files there'd be no issue, but SSDs are invariably used for the OS and applications, which are much more likely to be reading and writing many small files, thus incurring this latency penalty more often and causing these problems.

Supposedly the controller was patched to address this issue before the release of these drives, and from all the glowing reviews it's clear they have succeeded to some extent. However, patching a broken system is almost never as good as using a proper system from the start, and from my experience of 6 months of gaming off of this drive and experiencing stuttering in every game I've played, it is clear that the problem isn't entirely fixed.

Bottom line, if you are a gamer and looking to reduce game load times in addition to other application load times, this is NOT the drive for you.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SpeeEd Loader :), March 18, 2010

By	J. Orallo - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: Kingston SSDNow V Series 64 GB SATA 3 GB/s 2.5- Inch Solid State Drive SNV425-S2/64GB (Electronics)

SPEEEEEED LOADER. :)

I own 3 kingston ssds this version is by far one of their fastest and reliable ssds. With speeds up to 240 reads 120writes its fast and the price is unbeatable by any other ssd manufacturer. Why pay more when you can't feel the difference in speed. Best price for the money

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