I've got another Kingston unboxing to do I unboxed their SSD now V series
notebook upgrade kit drive very recently and now I have the SSD now V plus series
128 GB performance upgrade kit so this is intended for a desktop computer
whereas this one is intended for a notebook computer so there are some key
differences first of all the v+ series is slightly faster as the plus would
indicate and next of all it includes slightly different accessories so rather
than including say for example an external hard drive enclosure and
cloning software the desktop uh
performance upgrade Drive
includes I don't know actually we're about to find out what it includes oh it
does include an enclosure oh and it does include cloning software wow so it
actually just includes more it also includes a three 2 and 1/2 to 3 and 1/2
in hard drive mounting adapter bracket
it includes the USB cable that you'll need for the enclosure it includes a
SATA cable which you will need to install the new SSD in your system
unless you're replacing an SSD or rather a SATA drive and then you've got the
Kingston enclosure which is uh just an
simple simple external USB enclosure so you just kind of throw your drive in
there and then you close it up and you
slide that on there yeah you'll lock it up and then you've got just a basic USB
2.0 external hard drive enclosure so if you're upgrading well if you are
upgrading a laptop you can throw your old drive in here and use it as a storage drive and then leave the SSD in
your laptop cuz there's no reason you couldn't use this in a laptop too now
the main advantages of an SSD that uh Kingston has asked me to mention are
the silence the reliability and the performance I mean does it is there
really anything else yeah the capacities aren't as big as a typical 2 and 1/2 in
hard drive which is available in up to about 500 gigs these days but I mean at
128 gigs you've got enough space to store pretty much whatever you'd need
and it's much much faster like an SSD
Just Smokes even any desktop Drive even
in a raid configuration because it's all about the little bits of data that
you're accessing frequently that's why they're so useful as an OS drive because
whenever you do anything it's going to be much snappier I actually did a long
convoluted video on SSD versus hard drive if you put SS SD space vs Space
HDD into uh the Youtube search it should bring up my video under my ncic channel
pretty pretty high up and I show real world an SSD versus a hard drive and it
just flies so this is like I said they
v+ series actually why don't we have a quick look at
um what kind of specs we've got on this particular
Drive oh they're not going to let me cheat they have nothing on the box you
know what why don't we find out in real time the actual difference between the
SSD now V series and the SSD now V plus
series we'll site and we'll just uh key
them in and find out what the difference is so
king.com
okay today we're going to be learning how to do
important product
research okay so you can see there's the E Series so that's basically irrelevant
these days this is the old uh based on the Intel x25 e then you got the M
series which is based on the Intel x2m and then the V and v+ series these are
both using tashiba controllers as I recall so why don't we have a look at
the V series first so you got the data sheet here and what is it going to tell
us about it wow my uh scroll wheel is
not working okay here we go so the sequential speed on the 128 gig is 200
me megabytes per second read and 100 60
megabytes pers second right do they have any random oh this is kind of a neat
they give you the PC Mark hard drive uh hard drive score from 2005 so it looks
like the 64 gig is the best controller is the best uh performer out of these uh
the V series drives so why don't we have a look at the v+ series drives so you've
got slightly higher sequential read as well as slightly higher sequential right
that's actually very impressive for wres and then you've actually got
dramatically higher performance this I was not aware of so it looks like the v+
is pretty much the way to go if you are looking for the maximum performance
whereas the V is more of a value warrant a drive why don't we have a look at what
these two drives actually cost on ncx I get a lot of questions about this
where I work I work at NC it's a computer store in Canada so
Kingston 128 gab all right let's see
what we bring up so we've got the V series Gen 2 128 gig so that is at
$249.99 and then the v+ 128 gig so you're paying
almost an extra hundred bucks for that performance but if you're looking for
the maximum possible well performance
then you're going to want to go with the plus series drive and if you're not then
you're going to want to go with the regular V series drive so I think that
pretty much covers everything I wanted to say and why don't I just sort of
briefly show you the difference in the uh in the package for the notebook
upgrade kit versus the desktop kit so you've got the same enclosure you've got
the same software and the cloning software is intended for you to easily
take either a desktop or laptop hard drive so they've included a SATA cable
as well as their uh their little Basic 2 and 1 12 in enclosure you clone all of
your data over to the SSD drive and then just swap it in you don't even have to
reformat your OS so this one this is weird this one comes with a SATA power
cable and this one comes with a SATA data cable I guess the Assumption I
don't know what the assumption is here but they both got the USB cable they
both come with a hard drive and looks like there's no hard drive in here
anymore I must have must have done something with it maybe I left it in
here okay that almost freaked me out there but yeah it's just in there so
here's the V series Drive ah next to the v+ series
drive and they look pretty much the same
all the differences are going to be under the hood although this one has a
black label the v+ so that probably
means it goes faster because anything with a black like sticker on it
automatically goes faster I mean especially black and red like black and
red those are performance colors so it's it's hard to go wrong with performance
like black and red thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Kingston
SSD now v+ series performance upgrade
kit SSD drive oh yeah don't forget to
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