Kingston SSDNow V200 128 GB SATA III 6 GB/s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive – SV200S37A/128G
- 300MB/sec read and 190MB/sec write speeds
- Faster boot times and application loads than hard drives
- No moving mechanical parts gives it longer life and ability to handle rougher conditions
- Backed by Kingston’s three year warranty and 24/7 tech support
- Support for SATA Rev 3.0
- 2.5″ SSD Drive with 7mm height
Increase performance and productivity while extending the life of your computer with the Kingston SSDNow V200 128 GB Drive. The solid-state drive is built with no moving parts, making it far less susceptible to damage from shock and vibration than traditional hard drives. Utilizing NAND flash technology and a SATA 3.0 interface, the drive delivers data throughput of up to 6Gb/s. The drive also supports TRIM technology for optimized performance and the SMART monitoring system to detect problems s
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Not as good as expected,
I never wrote an review on amazon even though I have bought many many stuff from it. Kingston is a good brand and I trusted it with many of my usb drives. But this time I feel so compelled to write an reiew of my dissatisfaction toward this particular kingston ssd harddisk.
It did speed up the boot process of windows, but the write speed of this drive is ridiculously slow. It will freeze your computer when you try to do multiple things at once such as copy file while trying to install something, or installing something while opening a program.
And sometimes, for no particular reason, it will just freeze windows after a fresh boot.
I feel the urgent need to let other people know about this problem of the drive. Don’t buy this because it is not ready for primetime yet. And there is no firmware update to correct this problem.
My return period is over, so, I am stuck with this. I don’t want you to go thru what I go thru. so, don’t buy this. you will regret.
It speeds up booting while slow down or even freeze after the boot. This totally offset the benefit and sometimes render your machine useless.
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|MTTF less than 1 month,
Forget the 1,000,000 hours MTTF. Mine bricked in under a month. Waiting to see how the warranty is handled. If I get a refund, I’ll certainly be applying it to either an Intel or Crucial drive.
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|Unreliable drive!,
I am using this drive (SV200S3 SSDNow V200) on an HP/Compaq nx7400 notebook as a replacement for the original HDD.
The drive is really fast, performance is great, it’s like having a better notebook! I did not run any benchmark tests, but Windows XP boots up and runs really fast, compared to an HDD.
Unfortunately, I’m having massive problems with the drive.
Every few hours, I get a blue screen (BSOD) under Windows XP. After the blue screen, the notebook reports “NO BOOT DISK” (or something like that) and
there is no drive displayed in the BIOS setup any more. Only after a power-cycle of the notebook (switch off, switch on), the drive is found again and Windows XP boots as usual.
The next crash will follow a few hours later.
A way to provoke the problem is to run CHKDSK at boot (by typing chkdisk /r c: in the command prompt and then rebooting) – CHKDSK will get stuck at about 40%,
then crash, and the drive is not found again as described.
This behaviour shows me that it is quite likely that the drive is to blame. Even if I had a problem with my Windows XP setup, a reboot should never make the drive disappear!
There is no firmware update available from Kingston. I am very disappointed by the lack of customer service. I’ll try to get a return and switch to a different brand.
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