Kingston 120GB SSD $70 after instant savings

[nwo]

Kingston SSDNow V300 Series SV300S37A/120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

48 hours only! No rebates, no coupons, just savings! $0.99 shipping or free with shop runner! Awesome deal if you ask me.

 

[Doppel]

Same price at amazon now, too. It is a good price, and very well reviewed on amazon. Think I will buy one.

EDIT: some recent reviews on amazon paint a nasty picture of performance issues in subsequent releases with this drive. I am not sure whether those are legitimate or not but there are several concerning posts.

 

[Rvenger]

I bought one of these in October of last year and it was only performing at half the rated speed. I blamed it on the current firmware but Kingston thinks otherwise. Other than the sluggish speed, it was reliable.

 

[JBT]

Supposedly there are two different factories making these drives. One is Chinese and I think the other is Taiwan? The Chinese versions are seemingly having some issues on the newer firmware. I have had a Chinese version for almost a year and its fine. Its also in a really junky $200 refurb Lenovo so unless I run benchmarks I don't have any clue if its performing at its rated speed. It was when I purchased it.

 

[Doppel]

I've read too much bad stuff about this to feel comfortable with it. Although the internet has a habit of creating a false reality out of myth (e.g. one person says something and it becomes a ridiculous legend), there are a lot of people who've run benchmarks on this thing and it's just not performing very well. It looks like there may have been a change in memory in the units and although they still perform to the specs that Kingston uses, their specs may not be a great representation of real world, and more real world oriented bench marks are not doing great.

EDIT: as awful as rebates are I just got the Samsung Evo 840 120GB for $104 shipped - $30 in two rebates, which both expire tonight at midnight, from tigerdirect. This puts it a few bucks above the kingston but seems to be more consistently lauded.

 

[Hieumungous]

Almost pulled the trigger on this, but the reviews are scaring me.

 

[Danimal1209]

Just bought one of these on Monday and received it yesterday.

AS SSD Benchmark this morning

Sequential read/write 180/160

Going to try to get a refund from Amazon.

DO NOT PURCHASE THIS PRODUCT.

 

[bluesky]

Heard they started to put asynchronous nand on this model, which won't be fixed by a firmware upgrade.

 

[Ranulf]

I've been tempted to return mine unopened but I'll likely use it in a test laptop, nothing for serious storage/use.

 

[bbhaag]

I've been tempted to return mine unopened but I'll likely use it in a test laptop, nothing for serious storage/use.

Thats why I bought the 240gig model a couple weeks ago. I have an older laptop running an 80gig 5400rpm drive and since it's only SATA 1.5 the Kingston will make a nice improvement.

If I was getting this for a newer machine with SATA3 I would probably return it for something better because it won't even come close to reaching its advertised speeds.