so today I'm going to be doing a quick unboxing of the Kingston SSD now V
series Gen 2 64 gig SATA 2 solid state
SSD drive you'd think I was reading that
from somewhere based on how rehearsed it sounded but it actually wasn't it's just
all of the things that this drive happens to be okay so what does Kingston
say this drive happens to be they say it is fast reliable and Silent this is true
of almost every SSD on the market so there is definitely no false advertising
going on there next on the back they say it is two and a half inches which I'm
not going to pull out a ruler I can tell you right now that's a two and a half inch drive next they say it is faster
system startup for sure increases application responsiveness definitely
more durable and less noise yes all of these things are true about SSD I
actually SSD is a popular topic for me I've done quite a few videos both on
Linus Tech tips as well as my ncixcom channel outlining the advantages of an
SSD drive because I think they are many
and I think that if you can afford it an SSD is one of the best upgrades you can
do for your system right now I would even say if you have a reasonably modern
system it is better than upgrading a CPU or RAM at this point in time because it
makes such a big difference to the overall responsiveness of your system
now this is a fairly popular drive right now and uh there are a couple reasons
why first of all Kingston's been very aggressive on their pricing they're
making a a big push into the SSD Market because obviously it plays a lot on
their strengths as a company Kingston is a memory and Flash manufacturer this is
flash memory so it stands to reason that they would want to get their foot in the
door in this particular market so uh Inside the Box we find the um let me
just get this open this is a perforated booklet for some reason I
can't figure out why they would bother to do that but I have to actually break
a seal here to access the inside very
strange okay and then in here there's a little booklet which tells us uh it is a
getting started guide and it is in billion different languages I'm going to
unfold it here so it's this wide all
right let's have a look at the English
one okay it basically says plug it in
and then configure the BIOS so that it recognizes the drive all right well
thank you Kingston as long as you know how to install a hard drive actually
this is something I should talk about if you know how to install a hard drive you
know how to install an SSD I've actually gotten quite a few messages from from
people who are concerned about SSD well you know how do I know if it's compatible with my computer uh how do I
install it compared to a hard drive it's exactly the same thing it behaves
exactly like a hard drive so there's nothing there's no sort of Mystique
about it if you have a SATA 2 Port then you can plug an SSD into it all right so
why don't we have a look at the drive itself and I apologize because I haven't
gone and prepped myself on the uh read and WR specs of this particular drive
and they don't actually put it anywhere on their packaging it's a very very
strange thing I had expected them to sort of outline the specs for me
somewhere but they they haven't so that's okay anyway so you can see on the
front we've got the capacity here and then under here we've got the series so
this is the SSD now V series they don't say anywhere on here about it being Gen
2 but I'm going to go ahead and guess that the S2 64GB stands for something
like series 264 4 GB on the sides you've
got your standard 2 and 1/2 in mounting holes so this is going to be compatible
with almost all notebooks out there all right then you've got your other
mounting holes on the bottom so mounting holes on the sides and the bottom what a
lot of people are doing is they're putting these okay the two most popular
configurations for an SSD number one putting it in a laptop because it can
breathe new life into an old laptop you will not know what what hits you when
you install an SSD into your notebook the next most popular configuration
because capacities are so small a typical SSD is between 30 to 120 gigs so
what people are doing is they're actually installing an SSD in their
computer as a C drive putting their OS and key applications on it maybe a
couple games and then they're using a hard drive for the rest of their MTH
storage this is actually what I do I use a couple ssds and rate zero in my system
and then I don't actually keep any MTH storage on my computer I have all of it
stored over gigabit Ethernet to a Windows Home Server anyway enough about
me on the back of the drive we've got SATA power as well as SATA 2 data and
that pretty much covers my unboxing of the Kingston SSD now V2 solid state
drive