Kingston SSD Now V2 Solid State Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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so today I'm going to be doing a quick unboxing of the Kingston SSD now V
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series Gen 2 64 gig SATA 2 solid state
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SSD drive you'd think I was reading that
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from somewhere based on how rehearsed it sounded but it actually wasn't it's just
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all of the things that this drive happens to be okay so what does Kingston
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say this drive happens to be they say it is fast reliable and Silent this is true
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of almost every SSD on the market so there is definitely no false advertising
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going on there next on the back they say it is two and a half inches which I'm
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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
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system startup for sure increases application responsiveness definitely
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more durable and less noise yes all of these things are true about SSD I
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actually SSD is a popular topic for me I've done quite a few videos both on
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Linus Tech tips as well as my ncixcom channel outlining the advantages of an
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SSD drive because I think they are many
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and I think that if you can afford it an SSD is one of the best upgrades you can
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do for your system right now I would even say if you have a reasonably modern
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system it is better than upgrading a CPU or RAM at this point in time because it
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makes such a big difference to the overall responsiveness of your system
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now this is a fairly popular drive right now and uh there are a couple reasons
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why first of all Kingston's been very aggressive on their pricing they're
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making a a big push into the SSD Market because obviously it plays a lot on
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their strengths as a company Kingston is a memory and Flash manufacturer this is
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flash memory so it stands to reason that they would want to get their foot in the
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door in this particular market so uh Inside the Box we find the um let me
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just get this open this is a perforated booklet for some reason I
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can't figure out why they would bother to do that but I have to actually break
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a seal here to access the inside very
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strange okay and then in here there's a little booklet which tells us uh it is a
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getting started guide and it is in billion different languages I'm going to
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unfold it here so it's this wide all
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right let's have a look at the English
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one okay it basically says plug it in
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and then configure the BIOS so that it recognizes the drive all right well
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thank you Kingston as long as you know how to install a hard drive actually
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this is something I should talk about if you know how to install a hard drive you
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know how to install an SSD I've actually gotten quite a few messages from from
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people who are concerned about SSD well you know how do I know if it's compatible with my computer uh how do I
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install it compared to a hard drive it's exactly the same thing it behaves
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exactly like a hard drive so there's nothing there's no sort of Mystique
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about it if you have a SATA 2 Port then you can plug an SSD into it all right so
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why don't we have a look at the drive itself and I apologize because I haven't
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gone and prepped myself on the uh read and WR specs of this particular drive
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and they don't actually put it anywhere on their packaging it's a very very
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strange thing I had expected them to sort of outline the specs for me
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somewhere but they they haven't so that's okay anyway so you can see on the
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front we've got the capacity here and then under here we've got the series so
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this is the SSD now V series they don't say anywhere on here about it being Gen
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2 but I'm going to go ahead and guess that the S2 64GB stands for something
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like series 264 4 GB on the sides you've
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got your standard 2 and 1/2 in mounting holes so this is going to be compatible
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with almost all notebooks out there all right then you've got your other
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mounting holes on the bottom so mounting holes on the sides and the bottom what a
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lot of people are doing is they're putting these okay the two most popular
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configurations for an SSD number one putting it in a laptop because it can
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breathe new life into an old laptop you will not know what what hits you when
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you install an SSD into your notebook the next most popular configuration
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because capacities are so small a typical SSD is between 30 to 120 gigs so
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what people are doing is they're actually installing an SSD in their
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computer as a C drive putting their OS and key applications on it maybe a
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couple games and then they're using a hard drive for the rest of their MTH
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storage this is actually what I do I use a couple ssds and rate zero in my system
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and then I don't actually keep any MTH storage on my computer I have all of it
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stored over gigabit Ethernet to a Windows Home Server anyway enough about
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me on the back of the drive we've got SATA power as well as SATA 2 data and
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that pretty much covers my unboxing of the Kingston SSD now V2 solid state
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drive