this is a drive from Kingston's SSD now Series this is a v+ drive and it is the
180 so you might ask you know what's up
with an arbitrary number like 180 well I would postulate that it stands for 1.8
in so you can see that this SSD is actually substantially smaller than
other ssds in the SSD now v+ series and
the reason for that is that not every device out there uses 2 and 1/2 in
drives what a concept some
subnotebooks and uh even other devices will actually require you to have a 1.8
in drive if you want to upgrade and Kingston is not going to leave behind
any part of the market that they can meet and given that SSD technology is
very easily shrunk down to smaller sizes
well hey why not produce a one 1.8 in drive so let's get this guy opened up I
mean I'm not a big fan of the whole plastic clamshell packaging but it's not
too hard to get apart so let see what Kingston has to say for themselves in the documentation here it's kind of
clever the way they do their manuals you just kind of take apart the packaging
and then boom there's your getting started guide so 1.8 in Drive something
to be aware of is if you're upgrading a notebook for example that comes with a
1.8 in drive you might be in for a bit of a treat getting things apart um they
don't actually say much in here about that they're just talking about the physical installation make sure you got
a SATA interface and a SATA cable uh make sure you configure your BIOS to
boot from the SS all of that good stuff this guy is about
uh staying up to date on Kingston technology news and products okay and
let's have a look at this SSD now here's something to be aware of as well so yeah
you might be in for a bit of a challenge first of all interface okay this is not
a standard SATA desktop interface so I want you to look at a standard desktop
drive so we're going to orient these guys the same way these are clearly not
the same it actually is a proprietary well not proprietary it is a standard
connector but it's different standard connector on a 1.8 in drive versus a 2
and 1/2 in drive because you can clearly see that this drive just isn't wide
enough to fit all that stuff on with the necessary reinforcements and structural
bits that need to go along with it so that's the reason for the different
interface now the other thing to be aware of is that taking apart a drive or
a computer or an appliance or whatever else you have that is designed to accept
this kind of a drive might be a bit of a challenge because they're usually highly
embedded highly proprietary and you're going to require probably a set of
Torque screwdrivers as well as some other special stuff as well now just in
terms of sheer size I want to show you a
3 and 1/2 in desktop hard drive so you hold that up to a computer looks pretty
small looks pretty normal this is what a hard drive looks like okay 2 and2 in
drives these are basically going to replace 3 and 1/2 in drives in the next
couple years as far as I can tell they're about one qu the size of a 3 and
1/2 in drive so you take that you put it on top you can see that we could easily
fit two side by side you take that and put it on the side and you can see that
we could easily stack too so you actually have some adapters uh for
example 3 and 1/2 in to 2 and 1/2 in adapters that you can mount in a case
that will just take two ssds and mount them in the sandwich form right directly
on top of each other so you can fit double the density and then I've even
seen 5 and a/4 in Bay adapters that allow you to hot swap four 2 and 1/2 in
drives in the space of one of those so everything's getting more miniature all
the time but this just really Takes the Cake this thing is just tiny compared to
a 2 and 1/2 in drive you got about half the thickness so here I'm going to give
you that angle so you can see it pretty well uh even less than actually oh no
that's probably about half the thickness of the 2 and 1/2 in Drive although it's
not quite the same proportion so it's not a 1:4 ratio like the 2 and 1/2 to 3
and A2 so you can see the interface makes it just a little bit too long to
actually fit four of these in the same space but there you have it Kingston
produces a full range of SSD products including 2 and 1/2 in as well as 1 1.8
in drives and thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Kingston SSD now v+
180 that is a 64 gig very very very
small oh hey here's a good comparison oh hold on pause so just for size
comparison this is a crazy Russian credit card which he thoughtfully loaned
to me so that I could show you guys how big this 1.8 in drive is compared to a
credit card so you can see it is actually smaller than a credit card so
hey if you got an encrypted one of these you could actually like carry it around
in your wallet remember this is the encrypted drive this one's not encrypted
it's just really small so there you have it that is the 1.8 in Drive