so I'll no longer be doing unboxings in the cameraman's office because I finally
have my own legitimate office cameraman if you could do a quick 360 here and pan
around check out the new
office yeah there that was awkward so
today we're going to be unboxing the Kingston SSD now V series solid state
drive this is a 128 gig drive and it is
part of their uh notebook upgrade kit series of drives so it's a vs series
Drive which means it's a little bit slow slower than a v+ but still a very fast
SSD let me just see if I can find the specs on the box here okay you know what
no so I'm going to cheat a little bit and I'm going to go Kingston SSD now on
the NC website okay so we got the V
series Gen 2 128 gig you can see it's
actually on special this week if you wanted to buy this without the laptop
upgrade kit it's only2 54.99 apparently I unboxed it once
already without the laptop upgrade kit but um I guess that doesn't really
matter there's no uh wow that was when I was using that table in my house that's
not a very good place to do an unboxing so I'll be doing them in my new
office that'll be way better okay so the 128 gig is up to 200 megabytes per
second read and 160 megabytes per second right and check this out see this drawer
I'm going to be keeping a knife in it yeah so now we've got even that is all
taken care of so let's get this opened up and have a look at exactly what
Kingston includes with their 28 gig notebook upgrade kit so first of all we
have the outer sleeve that comes off and
I guess there's something on here okay so it says it's fast reliable and Silent
that pretty much goes for all decent quality ssds these days and the Kingston
one is definitely decent quality uh if
not excellent quality so oh cool that has a Kingston logo on the plastic then
we have a driver disc oh no this is cloning software this is really useful
then so so basically what makes this a laptop upgrade kit is that it has
everything you need to take your existing laptop hard drive and transfer
it directly onto this Kingston SSD so you use the hard drive cloning kit along
with the included 2 and 1/2 in hard drive
enclosure so you throw your SSD in the drive enclosure or vice versa I guess
then you use a USB cable to plug it into your computer then you use the cloning
software to completely copy all of your old hard drive contents onto the new SSD
you've also got a MOX 2 SATA adapter for
power for whatever reason okay not
really sure why let's get the drive opened up and we'll have a look at the
SSD itself okay so it's got a nice sort of
dark uh blackish grayish finish on it you can see this is an evaluation SSD so
it is not for resale uh the warranty is void if you remove this particular screw
over here you've got mounting options uh for 2 and 1/2 in drives on both the
sides as well as on the bottom so you're going to be able to mount this in any
laptop okay it is a thin drive so it's not going to not fit in a laptop because
it's too thick I've seen that before uh with something like the seate
Velociraptor even though it's 2 and 1/2 in it's actually too thick so that's
something to bear in mind and I guess that pretty much covers it it's got a
Kingston label on the top which is all shiny and then we've got our SATA power
as well as SATA 2 Data connector at the back and cameraman wants me to have sort
of a closer look at the drive enclosure that's included so this is a very very
basic Drive enclosure because I guess it's pretty much intended to be used
once though actually here okay so we'll show
the installation procedure why not it's that easy you just slide off the top
Slide the SSD in it Clips in just like that so it's not going to come out and
then you close it that was incredibly easy you know this is probably the
easiest to install external drive enclosure I've ever seen and uh it comes
for free with the drive so you can't really complain yeah there you slide it on from the top just like that and then
you got your you know what here why don't we just see if this works there
I'm going to plug it into my USB cable on my computer here okay power light
turns on I'm going to just sort of close my reports and my uh
MSN and this while the cameraman doesn't look at my
screen doesn't look at my screen closing all my stuff there we go okay so my
devic is already to use and I can go into my computer and I can access it
just like oh no I can't okay well what I'll do actually this is an interesting
tip not everyone knows how to do this if you rightclick computer and then click
manage then in theory it'll bring up the prompt if your computer is a little bit
faster than mine where you can actually
manage your drives let's try that one more time there we go it is adding a
snap-in console whatever that means I've never seen this take that
long there we go finally dis management and that is where you are able to
initialize a new disc um format an existing one you can actually rearrange
the drive letters so if you want to change your your C drive to your Zed
drive if you feel like it or your D drive to your X drive you can do that in
here it is going incredibly slow and I can't figure out why it's doing that but
either way that's where you do it so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Kingston SSD now V series
notebook upgrade kit and this is the 128
gab version