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Hardware Kingston SSDNow V Series 40GB: Intel X25-X

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Tim S, 27 Oct 2009.

  1. Tim S

    Tim S OG

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  2. stonedsurd

    stonedsurd Is a cackling Yuletide Belgian

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    Why is there no X25-M G2 in there for comparison? :(
     
  3. icutebluezone

    icutebluezone The meaning of life is to MOD

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    Lots of chips missing off it. anyone up for modding it and hacking it to get more out of it. :D
     
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    If you can buy 34nm NAND on its own and edit the firmware, sure!

    Stone: It's not exactly the same market, however I appreciate you want the comparison and I might dig out the numbers to drop in later this week/weekend.
     
  5. stonedsurd

    stonedsurd Is a cackling Yuletide Belgian

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    Thanks, would be much appreciated I'm sure, and not only by me :)
     
  6. Radical_Monkey

    Radical_Monkey Dremel > Lightsabre

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    Do you think this SSD would give a major performance boost to a netbook, say the samsung NC10 with W7 Pro installed?

    Thanks
     
  7. jim48509

    jim48509 What's a Dremel?

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    After reading that review I will leave the card in the wallet.
     
  8. Xir

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    So...the Kingston SSD NOW V+Series 64GB SSD was seen (in it Article) as too small...but this one isn't?
     
  9. Guest-16

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    No, 40GB is certainly too small (we said in the first page), but two in RAID 0 is not bad at nearly 80GB.
     
  10. yakyb

    yakyb i hate the person above me

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    hmm i like the look of this would make a great cheap drive for a database that requires lots of reads im half tempted

    are there any others out there that have similar if not better read performance and cost about the same
     
  11. cosmic

    cosmic What's a Dremel?

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    Looks like its wait a bit longer for a 'cheap' SSD boot drive. Will have to see how the competition responds to this, its certainly a step in the right direction - just not there yet.
     
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    True...in Raid0 it is slower as solo though.
    Wouldn't a Samsung F3 also in Raid0 come close? (and have 2terabyte and cost less?)
     
  13. DeathAwaitsU

    DeathAwaitsU I'm Back :D

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    No Win7 results? Im sure alot of us are running it, i know i have for over a year :)
     
  14. Baz

    Baz I work for Corsair

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    WIndows 7 SSD and HDD testing article is in the works, but understand it means retesting a hell of a lot of drives, as well as working around Windows 7's caching system.
     
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    Dave_M What's a Dremel?

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    You don't like it based on its sequential write speeds? This would make a great system drive. Show me a better SSD for £80.

    As for a performace drive, I would take it over a WD velociraptor in a hart beat ;)
     
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    Yes but two HDDs do truly double the chance of failure in a bad way. SSDs, so far, have proved a lot more reliable so that's why we're even marginally considering it. This doesnt solve issues like a bad mobo, driver corruption, etc
     
  17. John_T

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    As you say, 40GB is really too small with modern OS's - and why would someone want to spend £160 'raiding' two of these instead of just buying a bigger, better SSD to begin with?

    Still, it's definitely moving in the right direction.

    If manufacturers keep up their current pace of improvement and price reduction, I can see myself swapping to an SSD as my core drive at some point in Q1 2010.
     
  18. John_T

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    Thinking about it, I'm currently toying with the idea of buying a net-top as a Christmas pressie to myself.

    One of these could be perfect in a net-top, (something like an Acer Aspire Revo R3600) as it would give a totally silent system - with the only sound being the click of the on/off button.

    Does anyone know if those things come apart easily - or are they moulded shut?

    Actually, an article on net-tops would be pretty cool if you guys aren't too busy - I bet they'd make great media centres with SSD's in them...
     
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  19. ano

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    Yes SSDs are perfect for netbooks, hence the Asus Eee PC came with one 2 years ago (although it was 4Gb heh).
     
  20. perplekks45

    perplekks45 LIKE AN ANIMAL!

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    Moving in the right direction? Please come again?
    All they did was making it smaller and slower while selling it for basically the same £/GB price. It's smaller, that's why it's cheaper.

    I'm disappointed. Give me an SSD drive with 1xx MB/s read AND write for 1 - 1.5 £/GB and we're talking.
     
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