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 is easy to install backed by a three-year warranty, free technical support and legendary Kingston reliability.
$ 99.99
Works Great! (120GB Model),
I had decided to upgrade my old 2007 15″ A1226 model Macbook Pro’s hard drive and heard an SSD was the way to go. After a lot of research and hearing that my Macbook model has issues with SATA transfer speeds higher than 1.5Gbps, I decided to give this one a shot anyway, ignoring warnings that it might not work with the computer.
Well, to my delight, it is working flawlessly. It installed with no issues whatsoever, hardware or software. Now, I haven’t done any intensive speed testing (as that’s not really my style), but I can say that with only the stock 2GB ram and OSX 10.6.8, it only takes 18 seconds from hitting the power button to the login screen. This is my first SSD so that might just come with the territory, but for a 6 year old computer, that’s impressive.
Obviously I will update my review if the drive craps out, but I absolutely recommend this hard drive.
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|Easy to install and fast,
This drive is easy to install and boy is it fast. No issues with it at all. Just hope it proves to be reliable
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|Very snappy! Why spend more?,
When I began choosing parts for a brand new build I knew I wanted to go with an SSD. Hard drives are the primary bottlenecks in everyday performance nowadays considering spacious memory and powerful CPU’s are quite affordable. This may not be Kingston’s top of the line model but I doubt anyone would really notice a difference.
Boot times in Windows 7 are blazing and when I do make it to the desktop there is no “pop in” effect. The whole desktop complete with startup programs in the tray are all instantly finished loading and ready to go. My computer is able to go from powered off to browsing the web in 35 seconds! Not too shabby.
The physical size was interesting. it actually included an optional adapter to make it fat enough to fit into standard laptop hard drive compartments. Hard to imagine such capacity and speed in so small of a package!
Make sure your motherboard bios is set to use AHCI with this drive to increase performance. My motherboard actually defaulted to IDE with this drive when I installed Windows. I had to go back and go do some minor registry editing to be able to make windows use it in AHCI mode after the fact. It was totally worth it though; I managed to get a windows experience index score of 7.9 for hard drive transfer speeds, the highest score you can achieve! (In comparison, I had a 7.8 before switching to AHCI mode)
I highly recommend this drive to the average user. I’m certainly happy with the speeds although there are most definitely faster (and more expensive!) options available.
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