Product Details
- Size: 240 GB
- Color: Grey
- Brand: Kingston
- Model: SV300S3N7A/240G
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .28" h x
3.94" w x
2.74" l,
.21 pounds
- Memory: 245760MB
- Hard Disk: 240GB
Features
- Notebook Bundle Kit includes: 2.5" USB Enclosure, Hard Drive Cloning Software (CD)4, Installation Video (DVD), 7mm to 9.5mm adapter
- Faster - improves speed of loading applications and system boot up
- Reliable - with no moving parts, solid-state drives are less likely to fail than standard hard drives
- Economical - design optimized to make migrating to an SSD more affordable
- Convenient - all-in-one kits with all the components for easy installation
- Form Factor - 2.5-inch drive available in 7.0mm with adapter to fit in 9.5mm systems
- Multiple capacities - to fit your workload
- Silent - runs silent and cool
Product Description
Get more life out of your computer and maximize your existing investment by replacing your old hard drive with a Kingston SSDNow V300 solid-state drive. It’s the most cost-efficient way to dramatically improve the responsiveness of your system - and it’s less disruptive than migrating your data to a new system. SSDNow V300 features an LSI SandForce controller customized for Kingston and optimized for next-generation Flash memory to deliver the utmost in quality and reliability from two leading SSD brands. Because it’s made with solid-state components and has no moving parts, it’s shock-proof and withstands drops and bumps. SSDNow V300 Notebook Bundle Kit is easy to install and includes; all the accessories you’ll need, including the software to clone your files and OS in minutes. It’s backed by a three-year warranty, free technical support and legendary Kingston reliability.
Customer Reviews
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
By Hank G.
If you have not tried an SSD hard drive-do it! If you use disk intensive programs you'll notice a huge difference in start-up times. Windows 7 boots in 15 seconds on my Lenovo laptop instead of over a minute. DeLorme Maps used to take over 2 minutes to start and now is ready to roll in 20 seconds.If it is your first time installing a new hard drive, purchase the complete install kit. You will receive an external drive adapter (follow the instructions closely and place your old drive in the external case before booting the machine) and a Kingston exclusive Acronis boot CD. This makes the move of your entire system from one drive to another seamless. It copies your entire hard drive to the new SSD quickly. Choose the automatic clone option and a few clicks later you're on your way. I have installed SSD's from Samsung, Corsair and Kingston. Watch the read/write specs to make sure you're getting a 450mb/sec or better speed rating-they don't cost more. Acronis from Kingston has been the ONLY automated drive clone software that has worked on every machine (desktop & laptop) I have used it on.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
By Hans 'Dark Waves' Dresden
It's only been a day since installation, so these are my first impressions, not a long term report. The model I bought was the Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB notebook upgrade kit.For those looking to do this upgrade, I suggest you pay attention to the exact features of the model you're choosing, specifically whether the device is equipped for desktop (tower), or notebook PC's, or both (various sub-models are available to cover each need). Fortunately I received the right upgrade set for my notebook, despite not having been as careful as I should, because I had assumed it would work in either environment, and was a bit surprised that there was no 2.5" to 3.5" converter bracket in case one would have been needed; so just a caution: this one's for notebooks only. Of course, you could buy a bracket separately if needed, and cables too; the drive itself and transfer software I believe are no different in either case.My installation went into a Dell Inspiron 6400 / E1505 from early 2006, which I'm trying to string along without sinking too much money into an aging system, which so far has been working fairly well with only a couple of relatively minor hardware problems. One of those, however, pertains to the installation, and brings me to the second cautionary note, which is to make sure you have a bootable CD/DVD ROM drive for the Acronis image transfer CD to run outside of Windows. My original one has problems locking onto some (at this point, many) discs, and so I had bought a replacement internal DVD drive. That one, however, didn't play nice with my Firewire audio interface, inducing lots of clicks into the audio, so I ended up getting a couple of external USB DVD drives (I highly recommend Pioneer) and reinstalled the old original internal drive since it at least was compatible with the system sound and still worked on some discs. In fact, I tried the CD ROM from this package and was able to read the PDF guide off it, so figured it would work OK for installation too. Well, I was wrong about that, and never could get it to load the disc upon booting. The external USB drives, despite trying to make USB devices bootable from the BIOS, would nevertheless not boot with the disc. So in the end I temporarily swapped the newer internal drive into my laptop, just for this installation, and then back out again afterward. The point to this longwinded diatribe being, if my only replacement ROM drives had been external, I don't think I could have run the bootable CD, and though I had a temporary workaround, it wasn't quite the super-easy experience that most will have.Anyway, with these caveats out of the way, the actual swap process went pretty well. The end cap from the old system drive can go onto the SSD replacement upside down as well as right side up, so make sure to screw it on in the right orientation. The space in the laptop turned out to be the slightly deeper 9mm for which the included spacer came in handy. The spacer is just a simple rubber or plastic rectangular frame that can be stuck onto the SSD by removing the backing from the attached double-sided sticker. Instead of using the stickers, though, I just held it in place against the SSD and slipped them both into the slot together. The spacer won't be going anywhere, and if the drive ever migrates to a new computer, which is pretty likely, it won't need to be 'unstuck' for a potentially smaller space. Interestingly, while on the spacer topic, there is included with this kit a small Quick Start guide...just for attaching the spacer. The guides to the complete installation are: a PDF guide on the software disc; and a video guide on a second included disc, a regular DVD. The brief video is worth watching, mainly if you need the extra comfort level to watch the process and how relatively simple it is, even for someone who is not prone to tinkering with the guts of a computer.The included transfer software appears to have some additional functions beyond what is required for the image transfer purpose, but if you either watch the video or read the PDF guide and choose the very few simple required steps, the process should go without a hitch, and afterward the software can go back in the box, never to be seen again. In reading descriptions and reviews of various SSD drive kits, apparently some use a different sequence of installation. For this one, the sequence is to first load the software disc into the drive and shut down the PC, then remove all power, including battery, from the notebook, take the system drive out and put it into the included USB enclosure, move the SSD into the now open system slot, attach the included USB cable, and boot the computer to the software disc, and run the software, which will copy the entire hard drive to the SSD, operating system and settings included. When complete, close the software, remove the disc and the USB enclosure, and reboot as normal, and it should be as if nothing has changed (well, except for the improved performance).Speaking of performance, I couldn't be bothered to run any comparison analysis, so this is slightly subjective, but heck, if I can't tell from just watching, then it's not worth measuring anyway. So my observations are that the first stage of booting to get to the login screen isn't dramatically different; it seems that perhaps it's slightly quicker. However, from login to loading my profile, and also launching programs, and some program performance, are considerably faster and more stable. Just the first part, loading the profile, including the desktop appearance and all background processes, such as UPS monitor, WiFi connection, etc., has gone from where I would walk away, go to the bathroom, get a drink, come back and wait a bit more for it to finish, to now just sitting for about a half a minute and getting right to work. One program that used to bog down before was Windows Media Player 11. Apparently due to the high quantity of mp3's on an external drive in the library (about 1TB worth at this time) the program would take literally minutes to settle down to where it would actually begin playing a track after being given the play command. Now, the program loads and begins playing almost as fast as I can click; not instantly, but close enough. It's a very dramatic improvement.I had been slightly apprehensive, despite various positive reviews on similar units, about my aging PC being compatible with the modern SATA connections and functionality, but there was no incompatibility. Aside from the very welcome speed improvement, a major benefit is the peace of mind from no longer having to worry about the old hard drive konking out at an inoportune moment. Now, that old drive can serve as a temporary system backup to this SSD, unlikely as it may be that it will be required to fulfil that role during the remaining life of this laptop. Most of my data is stored and backed up to external drives already, using the VERY handy free Microsoft SyncToy program.One last thing worth noting is about capacity. Obviously, you'd want the new SSD drive to be the same size or preferably larger than the old hard drive. However, according to the included guides, so long as the data will fit, the new drive can be smaller than the one being replaced. The guides state that the partition(s) will be "scaled" down, or indeed up, as the case may be. In my case, going from a drive showing a capacity of about 69GB (there probably was a circa 10GB hidden partition for Dell's system restore feature, as I seem to recall) to this 120GB SSD resulted in 106GB of capacity shown by the properties. From this I gather that both the main C drive and the hidden partition increased in size proportionally.In sum, I'm well pleased with this product, and plan on installing one on another older PC at my folks, having persuaded them of the benefits. In the future, if at all possible, any computer purchase I make will, if possible, be one with an SSD system drive, unless and until something better comes along.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
By Flavio D
This SSD is much faster than a "conventional" HDD, dramatically reducing your Notebook start-up and shut-down time, and making your disk-consuming applications run faster. This capacity was right for me, but I guess any other capacities that meet your needs would be OK too!Just one thing: somewhere in the quick-guide it must be stated that the "cloning" SW included won't work if you have a password protected drive. Before removing your hard drive from your Notebook, you must enter the BIOS and disable that option (in case you have it enabled), only after that, you can follow all the other steps mentioned in the guide, and it'll work fine.
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