Kingston Unveils Performance Line of SSDs

Author Gordon Kelly
Published 12th Aug 2009
Kingston Unveils Performance Line of SSDs
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Recently Kingston has shown a penchant for pushing the boundaries of the USB drive market with 128GB and 256GB memory keys, now it seems set on challenging SSDs too...

The company has announced the 'SSDNow V+' series which come in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities, use a Samsung controller and are its fastest SSDs to date.


Sequential read speeds are up to 220MB/s with write speeds hitting up to 180MB/s. Rather more importantly for real world usage however are impressive random 4K read speeds of up to 6,300 IOPs and random 4K writes of up to 291 IOPS. Resilience is good with operating tolerance for the line at 2.7G, non operating tolerance at a massive 20G and the strength to withstand an operating shock of, wait for it... 1500G. Power consumption is just 2.6W when active and 0.15W at idle. Yes this is why SSDs are the future for portable devices.

The SSDNow V+ line all come in 2.5in form factors and have SATA II connectors which means they should play nicely with most laptops released in recent years. The new range will start shipping in September and while we don't have a full array of RRPs, the £129 tag on the 64GB edition bodes well for its bigger brothers.

Choices, choices...

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comment Mathew White said on 12th August 2009

Lots of talk about faster and faster read/write speeds, but ultimately, I'm not that interested when what I want is larger capacity. I edit video on a Mac Pro and I currently... more

comment Xiphias said on 12th August 2009

Kingston's kits use a rebanded Intel X25-M, is this a new Kingston-designed drive or a rebrand of something else?

comment David said on 26th August 2009

"random 4K writes of up to 291 IOPS"

lol, that's what I call performance. c'mon TR...

comment Geoff Richards said on 26th August 2009

@David - c'mon TR... and review one? :)

That's the official wording from the press release, so I assume you're not suggesting it's a typo?

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