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We all know the pains that come from reformatting a PC, but reformatting a notebook that is used daily and has several important functions is even more tiresome. Just a few weeks ago I needed to pull the Crucial C300 from my notebook to test a pair...

The Kingston SSDNow V Series is the value product form the company and sometimes it is easy to forget that when looking at the benchmark results. These drives were never meant to run in servers or for that matter enthusiasts / power users systems...
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hardwareunboxed.com Updated: 2014-04-17 01:46:58
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Today we are taking a look at the Kingston SSDNow V Series SNV425-S2 128GB solid-state drive which offers a reasonable amount of storage space at an affordable price. However as I found when playing around with the smaller 64GB version recently, these...

The Kingston SSDNow V Series SNV425-S2 series is all about value, though having said that they do not fare too badly in terms of performance either. Although we did find some weaknesses when running synthetic benchmark applications such as random small...
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Kingston has now come out with the second generation of the successful SSDNow V series, which appeals to both entry-level users and well-versed users who appreciate a good price-performance ratio. We took a look at the top model with its 128 GB capacity...

RatingThe Kingston SSDNow V made a good impression on us in most respects. Our review model (SNV425-S2/128GB) with 128 GB offers a very good price-performance ratio, starting at €257 (RRP including tax) for just the SSD. The current price online for this...
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Behardware.com Updated: 2014-04-17 01:46:58
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With the size of pages and blocks of NAND increasing on these new chips, the controllers that use them will be aiming to make up for the losses in speed for smaller accesses that are inherent in these changes. Moreover, while this flash memory doesn't seem affected and still has an endurance of 5000 write cycl...
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Kingston is popular amongst enthusiasts and gamers for being a manufacturer of high performance PC memory. They have also been manufacturing Flash drives and rebadging Intel SSDs, which are known to be highly reliable and speedy. Kingston manufactu...

Excellent speeds, silent, cool, power saving, attractive bundle...

Expensive...

The Kingston SSDNow V-Series Series 128GB SSD, which is part of the Notebook Upgrade Kit, is certainly an impressive product with just about no cons. It has everything needed to enable smooth migration for your notebook from your current old hard drive...
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xbitlabs.com Updated: 2014-04-17 01:46:59
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The market of solid state drives is growing up at a rapid rate, the manufacturers regularly announcing new models. Most importantly, the competition has led to the long-anticipated decline in prices. Although flash memory itself does not get cheap too...

We’ll do some summarizing now, starting from the Intel X25-V. Cutting it short, we like this product. Intel has come up with an affordable but rather fast SSD. It was especially good in our RAID0 array, providing both a large storage capacity and a hig...
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storagereview.com Updated: 2014-04-17 01:46:59
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The Kingston SSDNow V Series drive (SNV425-S2) represents the manufacturer's entry-level consumer solid state drive. Built in three capacities (30, 64, and 128GB), the V Series drives are designed as an upgrade option for those seeking the performance...

Transfer bundles make drive swapping easy...

Draws more power than some HDDs, Only half as fast as many consumer SSDs...

For casual users, the Kingston SSDNow V Series has one particularly alluring feature: price. Coming in under $300 for the 128GB version with one of the transfer bundles (or closer to $250 as a drive only), the V Series represents one of the better val...
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Solid-State Drives have become one of the most recommended upgrade options to increase performance and general system responsiveness, with good reason. In the time required for a regular hard disk to boot an operating system, an SSD can have the syste...

The old rule of thumb that "if something is priced too good to be true then it usually is" certainly comes to mind here. There Kingston SNV425 has the unpleasant honor of delivering borderline performance and only acceptable responsiveness, often deli...
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After this big summary, one big question remains: which 128 GB SSD unit should you buy?...
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Today brings both a surprise and a non-surprise. The non-surprise? Kingston has added another SSD to its lineup. The surprise? This drive is the same capacity as competing premium SSDs but retails for about $100 less. So what's the catch? Well, the cat...

The SSDNow V SNV425-S2 128GB Solid State Drive is Kingston's mainstream model in the marketplace. Depending which bundle you decide upon, this SSD could cost as low as $260 USD. That is about $100 cheaper than competing Indilinx-based SSDs, a huge pric...
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SSD’s are coming out hot and heavy now and Kingston isn't been shy about setting out to improve on their earlier generation drives. Last July, Legit Reviews had a go at their first generation SSDNow V Series SSD and awarded it the Legit Reviews Valu...

Kingston has really put the pressure on the other SSD manufacturers with their 128GB SSDNow V Series drive. With solid performance for an entry-level drive and $2/GB pricing that even SSD upgrade holdouts will find hard to resist, I have a feeling re...
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Solid State Drives have taken off in popularity since the lowering of NAND Flash memory has made them affordable. They have many advantages over the traditional Hard disk including faster access times, no spinning disks for better sustained transfer sp...

Kingston thought of everything when it comes to designing an SSD drive for the notebook market at large. The drive has adequate performance, but it is also designed to fit inside an enclosure to attach externally to a notebook computer as an external d...
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The WD SiliconEdge Blue 64GB, Kingston SSDNow V G2 64GB, OCZ Vertex 2 60GB, and Intel X25-V 40GB offer small capacities but big speed compared to most hard drives. One model ultimately rose to the top, both in real world performance and energy efficiency.
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