Kingston SSDnow V+ 128GB SSD Performance Upgrade Kit Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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I've got another Kingston unboxing to do I unboxed their SSD now V series
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notebook upgrade kit drive very recently and now I have the SSD now V plus series
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128 GB performance upgrade kit so this is intended for a desktop computer
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whereas this one is intended for a notebook computer so there are some key
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differences first of all the v+ series is slightly faster as the plus would
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indicate and next of all it includes slightly different accessories so rather
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than including say for example an external hard drive enclosure and
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cloning software the desktop uh
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performance upgrade Drive
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includes I don't know actually we're about to find out what it includes oh it
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does include an enclosure oh and it does include cloning software wow so it
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actually just includes more it also includes a three 2 and 1/2 to 3 and 1/2
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in hard drive mounting adapter bracket
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it includes the USB cable that you'll need for the enclosure it includes a
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SATA cable which you will need to install the new SSD in your system
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unless you're replacing an SSD or rather a SATA drive and then you've got the
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Kingston enclosure which is uh just an
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simple simple external USB enclosure so you just kind of throw your drive in
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there and then you close it up and you
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slide that on there yeah you'll lock it up and then you've got just a basic USB
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2.0 external hard drive enclosure so if you're upgrading well if you are
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upgrading a laptop you can throw your old drive in here and use it as a storage drive and then leave the SSD in
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your laptop cuz there's no reason you couldn't use this in a laptop too now
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the main advantages of an SSD that uh Kingston has asked me to mention are
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the silence the reliability and the performance I mean does it is there
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really anything else yeah the capacities aren't as big as a typical 2 and 1/2 in
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hard drive which is available in up to about 500 gigs these days but I mean at
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128 gigs you've got enough space to store pretty much whatever you'd need
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and it's much much faster like an SSD
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Just Smokes even any desktop Drive even
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in a raid configuration because it's all about the little bits of data that
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you're accessing frequently that's why they're so useful as an OS drive because
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whenever you do anything it's going to be much snappier I actually did a long
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convoluted video on SSD versus hard drive if you put SS SD space vs Space
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HDD into uh the Youtube search it should bring up my video under my ncic channel
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pretty pretty high up and I show real world an SSD versus a hard drive and it
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just flies so this is like I said they
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v+ series actually why don't we have a quick look at
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um what kind of specs we've got on this particular
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Drive oh they're not going to let me cheat they have nothing on the box you
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know what why don't we find out in real time the actual difference between the
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SSD now V series and the SSD now V plus
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series we'll site and we'll just uh key
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them in and find out what the difference is so
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king.com
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okay today we're going to be learning how to do
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important product
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research okay so you can see there's the E Series so that's basically irrelevant
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these days this is the old uh based on the Intel x25 e then you got the M
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series which is based on the Intel x2m and then the V and v+ series these are
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both using tashiba controllers as I recall so why don't we have a look at
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the V series first so you got the data sheet here and what is it going to tell
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us about it wow my uh scroll wheel is
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not working okay here we go so the sequential speed on the 128 gig is 200
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me megabytes per second read and 100 60
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megabytes pers second right do they have any random oh this is kind of a neat
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they give you the PC Mark hard drive uh hard drive score from 2005 so it looks
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like the 64 gig is the best controller is the best uh performer out of these uh
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the V series drives so why don't we have a look at the v+ series drives so you've
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got slightly higher sequential read as well as slightly higher sequential right
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that's actually very impressive for wres and then you've actually got
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dramatically higher performance this I was not aware of so it looks like the v+
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is pretty much the way to go if you are looking for the maximum performance
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whereas the V is more of a value warrant a drive why don't we have a look at what
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these two drives actually cost on ncx I get a lot of questions about this
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where I work I work at NC it's a computer store in Canada so
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Kingston 128 gab all right let's see
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what we bring up so we've got the V series Gen 2 128 gig so that is at
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$249.99 and then the v+ 128 gig so you're paying
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almost an extra hundred bucks for that performance but if you're looking for
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the maximum possible well performance
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then you're going to want to go with the plus series drive and if you're not then
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you're going to want to go with the regular V series drive so I think that
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pretty much covers everything I wanted to say and why don't I just sort of
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briefly show you the difference in the uh in the package for the notebook
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upgrade kit versus the desktop kit so you've got the same enclosure you've got
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the same software and the cloning software is intended for you to easily
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take either a desktop or laptop hard drive so they've included a SATA cable
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as well as their uh their little Basic 2 and 1 12 in enclosure you clone all of
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your data over to the SSD drive and then just swap it in you don't even have to
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reformat your OS so this one this is weird this one comes with a SATA power
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cable and this one comes with a SATA data cable I guess the Assumption I
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don't know what the assumption is here but they both got the USB cable they
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both come with a hard drive and looks like there's no hard drive in here
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anymore I must have must have done something with it maybe I left it in
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here okay that almost freaked me out there but yeah it's just in there so
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here's the V series Drive ah next to the v+ series
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drive and they look pretty much the same
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all the differences are going to be under the hood although this one has a
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black label the v+ so that probably
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means it goes faster because anything with a black like sticker on it
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automatically goes faster I mean especially black and red like black and
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red those are performance colors so it's it's hard to go wrong with performance
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like black and red thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Kingston
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SSD now v+ series performance upgrade
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kit SSD drive oh yeah don't forget to
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