Product Details
- Size: 256 GB
- Brand: Kingston
- Model: SV100S2/256GZ
- Original language:
English - Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.40" h x
2.00" w x
6.75" l,
.17 pounds
Features
- 250MB/sec read and 230MB/sec write speeds
- Faster boot times and application loads than hard drives
- No moving mechanical parts gives it longer life and ability to handle rougher conditions
- Backed by Kingstons three year warranty and 24/7 tech support
Product Description
Kingston technology’s ssdnowv100 solid-state drive dramatically improves performance with impressive speeds. it makes any user more productive by speeding up boot times and application loads while removing hard drive crashes or failures. ssdnow v100 is ideal for consumers or small businesses looking for an affordable way to extend the life of desktops or notebooks at a lower cost than a replacement system. it’s perfect for home users, freelance designers and photographers, video editors, researchers, administrators and educators, and anyone who travels for their job. it’s built with no moving parts to provide durability and reliability and meet the needs of professionals in the office or on the road.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
97 of 123 people found the following review helpful.
By Adrian R
I've been using this for about 4 months. Although there was a failure 2 months ago, I rebuilt the system and everything seemed to be fine. Since then I've been using the system and everything's been going very well. Last night when I went to bed, I was working from a computer that was fast and reliable. Woke up this morning to an expensive paper weight.My big rammed, fast quad core system with two working WD Black drives, is unable to boot because my SSD is nolonger detected.Prior to introducing the SSD, the system was reliable and I only introduced the SSD to enhance boot and app startup performance.After two failures I think the temporary availability of quicker boot time is far offset by the massive inconvenience that this has and will cause.IMHO, SSD is the way to go, but the Kingston's 128GB version seems to have a field failure rate that renders it useless.### THINK TWICE ABOUT BUYING. DO YOU WANT TO BE THE NEXT PERSON ATTEMPTING TO RECOVER FROM A FAILURE? ####### IF YOU ARE A RISK TAKER AND DECIDE TO BUY... I STRONGLY RECOMMEND A VERY STRICT BACKUP REGIME TO MINIMISE YOUR LOSS WHEN/IF IT FAILS ###Kingston? Over to you...Update 12th July, 2011I find it interesting that people do not find such a review helpful, when the main message is for users to be cautious and not to rely excessively on this piece of storage equipment. With as many other reviewers indicating similar experiences there is clearly a problem that needs to be addressed (although, potentially Kingston already has if it is simply the firmware situation). At the least Kingston could have provided further information through MS Update or on locations like this. Granted they don't have a direct relationship with me to update directly on the potential risk, but searching around some generic locations, there doesn't seem to be much in the way of effort from them either. When I took it in for service, they could have also communicated this directly and a firmware update tried without shipping it away. It's already been 2 weeks, they've estimated 2-4 and it's too long to be without my computer. I bought a replacement HDD and the system was restored from my backups. Nonetheless, if it is returned and working fine, the additional drive I bought will have been an unnecessary purchase (out of pocket) AND there's the significant inconvenience value of having to rebuild the computer (loss of time).I add this to my review so people may consider it more closely, despite it having only a 50% helpful rating.Update 22nd August~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~My thanks to the helpful suggestions from this community, sadly the SSD is still not back!!!???I'm at a point where I'm starting to believe that it will not be coming back and that the money's been thrown away. If it were a $20-30 I might be less annoyed by this, but at $220 that's less palatable. It's approaching a point soon where it will have spent more time with them than it has with me!!! If you include the earlier failure and the time before I got it to the repair point, it's probably spent more of it's 'warranty period' not working than working... and I still don't have it! Perhaps they will wait till the warranty period is out to return it, to limit their further obligations/responsibilities/liabilities.I want to stress, that I completely believe in SSD. My iMac and MBP both have SSD for system and another PC I have has a 64GB also. This issue is about Kingston as a brand and whether they will stand by their product.Would I buy Kingston again? Consider this: If I did and it failed, you'd think I was a fool. They'd say something like "with your own experience you 'put your finger in the boiling water' again". I'm no fool and don't want others to be treated as fools either. Kingston is in need of something special to recover from this now.While the bug that caused my failure may have been fixed with a firmware update, what about the next one? Suddenly another bunch of dud drives across peoples homes/businesses. Will all these users be also forced to buy ANOTHER product because the repair / turnaround time ends up being REDICULOUSLY long?I had a Western Digital Black which had problems recently (after the Kingston failed). Was a bit strange in that it was working fine, but wouldn't complete the final 1% of a re-format. It was something like 2.5 years into a 3 (or was it 5... not sure) year warranty. I took it in, they apologised for not being able to change it on the spot because they didn't have stock of that model, but a few days later they rang me to say the replacement was ready. This situation was not ideal, but problems do happen from time to time and the resolution speed was acceptable for a slightly older device.Kingston's initial estimate was 2-4 weeks. I already wasn't happy with that.. but now 2 months, or so, later and not even an indication of when it'll be back. I wouldn't want others to have this inconvenience and would feel socially irresponsible not sharing this with the other Amazon reviewers who have already helped me so much in refining my purchases.So... I wait. If it does come back, I'll not be trusting it as a system drive again anyway. It'll become a portable external backup.... but that's not what I bought it for and could have spent less than 25% of the original price for that purpose. I rarely waste money on technology (thanks in part to the Amazon community) but this has definitely been a waste.Update 23rd August~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~After 2 months, it's finally returned (after further chasing). See attached comment from same date.
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
By M. James
Bought this for use as the primary system drive for installing the OS. For the price it's real fast. Only drawback I can say goes for all SSD's in general - the price. Hard to justify what you would spend for a 2TB 3.5" drive, on a 64GB drive. Hopefully, in time, prices will come down & drive capacities will go up. On a side note I should add that though the write speeds seem a bit on the slow side on paper (around 140 mbps), realistically this is not a problem - at least not for me. Right from boot up to shut down every response is instant. This includes working with heavy weights like photoshop, dreamweaver, IDE's like eclipse, games (nfs-hot pursuit 2010, Crysis 2, Metro 2033) etc. The reason for this I think is, since it's my primary drive, apart from the OS installation, data is mostly being read from it, not written to.Oh & I forgot to mention ... it has TRIM (works with Windows 7 & BIOS drive controller mode set to AHCI), NCQ, & APM. It doesn't have AAM which isn't needed anyway since it's an SSD & so has no moving parts & is totally silent.Finally the most important part:Kingston's site says you need to install the firmware update for specific drive S/Ns to prevent sudden death of the drive ! For anyone interested, the link is:[...]All in all I'm pretty chuffed with my purchase. Hope you'll be too !EDIT: The Kingston firmware update link seems to have been gobbled up for whatever reasons! So just check the 5th comment for this review, where I've posted it again.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
By Bruce
I should've paid attention to the numerous negative reviews posted on Kingston SSDNow hard drives where the SSD hard drives failed less than 4 months after initial usage. My Kingston SSD had the D110225a firmware that was supposed to minimize the well known failure rate. Mine just failed after receiving a BSOD and is no longer recognized by the motherboard (tried in two different computers with different cables). A quick google search showed many others with the same issue even with the D110225a firmware. Looks like all my data is lost at this point.Over my 15+ years of owning multiple mechanical hard drives, I have never experienced a hard drive failure. SSD hard drives are built to be robust but Kingston's quality seems to have degraded over the years.Do NOT purchase this SSD unless you plan to back up regularly and will be waiting until the hard drive finally decides to crap out on you!
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