Has anyone tried/looked at the new Kingston v100 SSDs?

[jjmIII]

@ Superbiiz

With coupon they are $193 for 128gb. Seems like a good deal, and reviews/speeds look on par, or above for pricing.

plenty of reviews

Looks like a good cheap SSD for the masses.

 

[stargazr]

Be careful they have a lot of different models with different controllers. There is a review on Anand Tech if you haven't seen it -

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4010/kingston-ssdnow-v-plus-100-review

 

[taltamir]

to quote anand:

I'm not sure what it is about SSD manufacturers and overly complicated product stacks. Kingston has no less than six different SSD brands in its lineup. The E Series, M Series, SSDNow V 100, SSDNow V+ 100, SSDNow V+ 100E and SSDNow V+ 180. The E and M series are just rebranded Intel drives, these use Intel's X25-E and X25-M G2 controllers respectively with Kingston logo on the enclosure. The SSDNow V 100 is an update to the SSDNow V Series drives, both of which use the JMicron JMF618 controller. Don't get this confused with the 30GB SSDNow V Series Boot Drive which actually uses a Toshiba T6UG1XBG controller, also used in the SSDNow V+. Confused yet? It gets better. The standard V+ is gone and replaced by the new V+ 100, which is what we're here to take a look at today. This drive uses the T6UG1XBG controller but with updated firmware. The new firmware enables two things: very aggressive OS-independent garbage collection and higher overall performance.

so be VERY careful about what you order from kingston, make sure you are getting the right SSD since they sell: intel, toshiba, samsung, and jmicron drives.

As for the V100+
if you store compressible data then sandforce is best.
if you store non-compressible data with TRIM capability use the C300.
if you store non-compressible data on a desktop without TRIM capability (aka winXP) use the V100+
if you store non-compressible data on a laptop without TRIM capability then you don't have any good choices.

EDIT: According to my searches the SV100S2 is actually NOT the V100+, I have no idea what they are, and I was unable to find anything about them.

 

[jjmIII]

I'm not confused at all. I'm looking at the SSDnow V 100 with the new JMicron JMF618 controller.

Review

 

[jjmIII]

Be careful they have a lot of different models with different controllers. There is a review on Anand Tech if you haven't seen it -

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4010/kingston-ssdnow-v-plus-100-review

That review is for the V+ 100 with Toshiba T6UG1XBG controller.

 

[stargazr]

Yes I know but it does explain some of the different models, also some V series models are in the storage bench figures.