Kingston SSD V+100 Series SATA300

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 13 expert reviews

Excellent:

6
Good:

4
Average:

2
Bad:

1

Pros:

Excellent Performance and Transfer Speeds.
Increased Application Performance and Start Up Times.
Excellent Included Software and Accessories.

Cons:

Expensive.
Still no effective performance scaling with queue depths over 1.

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Last revision on January 28, 2013

Reviewers Liked

Excellent Performance and Transfer Speeds
Increased Application Performance and Start Up Times
Excellent Included Software and Accessories
3 year Warranty With 24/7 Support
Independent Garbage Collection Scheme For Improved Performance Longevity
Decent read/write performance
Affordable MLC NAND flash
Noiseless operation
Shock proof
Low power consumption
Upgrade kit with cloning software included

Reviewers Didn't Like

Expensive
Still no effective performance scaling with queue depths over 1
Not a top choice for gamers, power users
Bested by same price 90GB SandForce drives

Expert reviews and ratings

The Kingston SSD Now V+ 100 128GB used to impress us but now seems a bit middle of the road. Read our review....

By PC Authority on August 28, 2011

The Kingston SSDNow V+100 is a tough sell. It does exceptionally well in sequential write performance and decently enough when it comes to reads. However, the drive is left behind in random write performance, which is important for a system drive. In...

By VR-Zone on May 13, 2011

When it comes to single-component upgrades, there's nothing quite like a fresh new slab of super-fast flash memory. Kingston's 96GB SSDNow V+100 might not be the quickest or most capacious SSD on the market, but its competitive pricing and...

By HEXUS.net on May 10, 2011

Kingston Technology Company, Inc. is the world's independent memory leader. Founded in 1987 with a single product offering, Kingston® now offers more than 2,000 memory products that support nearly every device that uses memory, from computers,...

By Hardware Bistro on April 28, 2011

A must have upgrade that definitely justifies the...

By Kitguru.net on April 04, 2011

While I would have been ready to call this a bog standard SSD with middling performance, when you take into consideration the price tag it completely changes what the Kingston SSDNow is. It's not the boring looking performance drive it appears to...

By XSReviews on January 05, 2011

100

The V+100 is a step up in performance from the original model and is well priced with plenty of extras...

By Expert Reviews on January 04, 2011

There's no such thing as a cheap solid state drive. But you do at least have the choice between merely pricey and downright punitive. The new Kingston SSDNow V+100 256GB falls into the former camp.At around £375 for 256GB of capacity, it's...

By TechRadar on December 15, 2010

We've added more SSDs to our database and observed a number of significant price changes in the past month. As a result, this months recommendations undergo a notable revamp. And to those of you waiting for a hierarchy table at the end, it's...

By Tom's Hardware on August 26, 2011

A couple of weekends ago, I spent some time cleaning up my OS SSD in order to make room for some large benchmarking files I needed. After running Windows' Disk Cleanup tool, and making sure there were no gargantuan files or folders in my Users...

By Techgage on June 17, 2011

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