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WARM - 96GB Kingston SSD Now V+100 Kit $129 AR

Nice! This is the V+100 which IIRC has a really good controller to use on systems that do not have Trim.
 
dmoney1980 said:
how does this perform against the Micro Center brand 64gb SSD?
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Dont know about 1 but I have a pair of these (Kingston) in RAID 0

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dmoney1980 said:
how does this perform against the Micro Center brand 64gb SSD?
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Anand reviewed this drive. The Micro Center branded drive is an Adata based on the SF1200 series.

The drives are probably around the same in sequential performance, but the Kingston loses badly in random performance. This would be true for both reads and writes. Note that it still beats hard drives by quite a bit in randoms, even if it loses to faster SSDs.

In benchmarks that emulate "real world" performance, the drive does quite well and is usually in the top half of the drives tested - prior to the latest SATA 6G drives.

AnandTech Bench comparing the drives

Okay, the Kingston V+100 was a 128GB model and the Sandforce was a 100GB OCZ Agility 2, but it might be close enough. Just remember that not always but usually larger drives perform better.

JSt0rm said:
would these be good on a macpro?
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AnandTech's review of the latest Macbook Pro says:
In the MacBook Air Apple standardized on a Toshiba controller, delivering performance nearly identical to Kingston's SSDNow V+100. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple used the same controller in the new MacBook Pros. The SSDs are still 3Gbps and will be a huge improvement over the standard hard drive, but just know that you aren't getting the best performance possible. In exchange for the price premium, what you do get is a drive that Apple will support completely (and also official TRIM support, no 3rd party drives have TRIM support under OS X).
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So, on the one hand it uses pretty much the same controller. On the other hand, Apple has their system locked down so that they only do Trim on their SSD. Now, this controller worked well previously without Trim, because of aggressive garbage collection. Thus, might be a moot issue.

tl:dr Yes, would work reasonably well in a Mac.
 
Zap said:
[.....On the other hand, Apple has their system locked down so that they only do Trim on their SSD. Now, this controller worked well previously without Trim, because of aggressive garbage collection. Thus, might be a moot issue.

tl:dr Yes, would work reasonably well in a Mac.
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Actually an enterprising individual on a mac forum has fixed that. I'm currently running with TRIM active in OSX 10.6.7 on my MBP 15 with an Intel 256gb 510 SSD. Some guys have verified that it works. The app even worked on my MBA 13 256 SSD which normally only has TRIM in win7 bootcamp.
 
I bought the Kingston when it was $10 cheaper at Buy.com via the prior thread last week and just finished setting it up running W7 64 on my old trusty Abit IP35-e. All I have to say is wow. The drive is so fast, I'm not sure it's possible to notice the diff between the other even faster ssd's (measure, yes; be able to notice, not sure). Wish I would have gotten one a long time ago.
 
jjmIII said:
Agreed. Also not an OCZ fan.
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Why? I love OCZ, ever since their RAM days.

I think 60GB would be fine for a OS drive? I plan on throwing all my junk on a external drive anyways.

Doesn't the OCZ blow the Kingston out of the water in terms of read/write speeds (unless I'm missing some fine print somewhere)? But if I wanted space, the Kingston would be a good deal? Note: This is going into a Lenovo x120e laptop.
 
OCZ RAM is notorious for rarely, if ever, performing to spec, and for requiring insane amounts of voltage. They also have a reputation as a shady company, and the recent bait-and-switch scam with the 25nm Vertex 2s only confirms it.

I've been tempted to buy one of their SSDs before, but, for the life of me, I just can't do it.
 
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