Conclusion:
SSD’s offer many benefits to users, mostly in the form of high read and write speeds. One key advantage is there are no moving parts in SSD’s. This makes all SSD’s silent and decreases their power consumption. The lack of moving parts also means that the drives are less likely to break from normal wear and tear, especially in notebooks that are constantly being moved around (i.e. traveling to business meetings, walking to class or using the notebook while riding in a vehicle). The largest advantage is the seek time of SSD’s, as it completely blows any magnetic drive out of the water.
Kingston has put a lot of time and effort into the SSDNow V Series, and it really shows. They worked intensively with JMicron and Toshiba to make lemonade out of what had been a lemon of a storage controller. This feat of fiscal prowess and ingenuity has allowed them to keep costs down and produce an entry-level SSD with an attractive price tag. The $250 price tag is no doubt attributed to the included accessories and imaging software, but it still manages to be one of the cheapest 128GB SSD’s on the market. For average consumers that want comparable performance to the Velociraptor in a silent, power sipping, ruggedized form, this drive can’t be beat for the price. Kingston has really gone the extra mile and included everything consumers will need to seamlessly migrate to the new drive. As far as entry-level drives go, this is one of the better ones, and the included Kingston 3-year warranty and 24/7 tech support doesn’t hurt either.
