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Im looking for a 128gb ssd drive to upgrade my nc20
the one i am looking at is this one here: SSD
Kingston SSDNow V Series 128GB Bundle Notebook Kit 2.5″ Solid State Drive SATA300
£169.95
the specs are as follows
Features:
– Fast: Up to 100MB/sec. read; 80MB/sec. write
– Performance: Enhances productivity; makes users more efficient
– Innovative: 2.5″ form factor; uses NAND Flash memory components
– Silent: Runs silent and cool with no moving mechanical parts
– Reliable: Less likely to fail than a standard hard drive
– Shock Resistant: No moving parts so the SSD handles rougher conditions than a hard drive
– Supports S.M.A.R.T.: Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology tells the user when a drive is about to fail
– Guaranteed: Three-year Kingston warranty, 24/7 tech supportBundle Kit Contains:
– SSDNow drive (80 GB of 160 GB)
– External enclosure / case
– Internal drive bay brackets for desktop / server
– Connection cables
– Data, operating system and application transfer software
– Installation manualis this a good drive in the experience of anyone here?? or is there something else of similar price or better price i should be considering
thanks
simcards – I don’t have any first hand experience with ssd’s but there is a review complete with metrics you may not have seen.
Kingston SSDnow V-Series 128GB Solid State Hard Drive ReviewHope this helps
that was a really helpful review jeepers01, cheers for the link
i think ive made my min up, gonna get this one 🙂
STOP!
Better don’t.
Maybe you might have a look here:
http://www.sammymobile.com/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?37544
i am really confused now, i read 2 independent reviews of the kingston and they both raved about the product, including the link provided by jeepers
now having read the comments and posts from chainguy i am totally confused
🙁
OK, at first those SSDs come up pretty fast.
Windows Install is a blast (no wonder, it’s all sequential writes, and that’s where these disks aren’t that bad.)And then comes what all my pals did experience.
First two month are fine, all is well, windows boots up pretty fast, programs are more or less snappy. Some programs come up fast, but some take quite a bit longer. (Office, Adobe Acrobat)
Butafter some time, performace begins creepingly to suffer. BADLY!
Windows startups take more than 1min, when the disk is more than 75% full it might even take up to 5min.
Even worse is, that even opening the Start-menu causes lag. This is so annoying.
Click Start – *nothing happens*-2-3-*pop* open. Move Mouse over to Programs – *nothing happens*-2-3-4-5-*pop*…There’ve come up some workarounds to keep windows from writing too much on the disk, that may help, but not for very long.
System performace can be restored, at least partly, by doing some factory-reset. But that hurts lifetime and you loose all data and have to setup your sys all over again.
When Installing WinXP, you might want to “align” the partitions by hand with e.g. “diskpar” and don’t do a full format on the drive when installing Windows, only quick format.
There’s some other tweaks, too, you might want to look for tips, when installing Windows to those old first gen Acer Aspire One A110L. (These were the Linux-based ones with a very, very slugish 8GB SSD.) Those suffered horribly from lags, when you do a full stock install of XP, right from the start.
Whith all these tweaks, you might be able to get some nice performance and, eventually, keep that performance up for quite a while. But I don’t think it’s worth all that hassle only for saving about 30$ and still don’t have that performance, that “real SSD have.Another Tom’s article: Avoid SSDs with Jmicron’s JMF602 Controller
[Edit:] Or as my grandpa used to say:
“Buy cheap – buy twice”
[/Edit]thankyou Chain 🙂
so as my budget is limited
i would be better off going for a 64gb ssd of a better brand
great advice thanks again
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/169566/show_product_reviews
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/167203
what do you think of these 2 models please
I don’t know about prices, but both drives are fine.
Corsair’s X-series is Indilinx based, blazing fast in sequential reads an writes, still very perfomant in random, nice trim-tool (for performance-recovery) but a bit problematic in terms of firmware.
Corsair’s P-Series is Samsung based, still very fast on sequential, but not as fast when random reads an writes are used. Sadly no trim.tool, but something called “garbage-collection. Restores performance, when rebboted and left in login screen for longer than 1hour. (Works only with ntfs formatted drives)Also very good, with automatic (on the fly) performance recovery and the king of random reads and writes are the new 32nm Intel (Postville) drives. Sequential reads and writes are a little lower than the Indilinx and Samsung drives but you won’t notice on a netbook, as you are cut at about 130MB/sec anyways, thanks to SATA-I.
There’s loads of Indilinx-based Drives out there.
Patriot Torqx
Mushkin Europe-2 (Mind the “2”!!!)
OCZ-Vertex(Turbo) / Solid-2(Mind the “2”!!!) / Agility
Corsair X-Series
SuperTalent UltraDrive ME/GX
Crucial M225
…Samsung-based SSDs are a bit rare
Kingston’s V+-series (Mind the “+”!!!)
Corsair P-Series
SupeTalent MasterDrive SX
OCZ SummitIntel’s still the only one with their 34nm Postville drives.
The Kingston ones are still the old Intel. Expensive but no performance recovery.thanks for all your advice mate, you have been a massive help, and saved me from buying the wrong item
gonna spend an extra £80 and buy the Corsair Storage Solutions Gen 2 128GB 2.5″ SSD
its gonna cost me £250 delivered but for me looks the best all round solution
thanks again 🙂
This is the P-Series, right? (P-128) Not M-Series?
Then it’s internally a Samsung wit samsung’S newest controller (RBB).
That’s fine, because Corsair’s got a nice support, was one of the first to ship their SSDs with the newest firmware, and, when a new firmware is released by Samsung, they will most likely be the first to release it to the customers.yes its the p series (performance series) coming tomorrow, so will let u know how i get on installing it lol
good news that i get the support you mentioned, the retailer did mention its a samsung drive 🙂
Not something I’ve looked at before, but seems like an opportune moment to link to this blog post. Look forward to hearing how it goes 🙂
drive came today, installed into the nc20 in approx 5 minutes
loaded windows 7 as a nice fresh clean install, took about 20 minutes (wasnt counting)
loaded all mr programs on and music, pics, etc…….
does what it says on the tin, runs like lightning, very very fast
windows automatically sorted all the drivers for me, just need the samsung specific progs
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