Kingston SSDNow V300

price, usability, reliability, size, design

92% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

Good performance ; Competitively priced ; Good accessories

Incompressible data performance could be better ; SandForce showing signs of age

Since Kingston introduced the V series of drives a few years ago, the V has always stood for Value and this by all means stands true to this drive. The V300 is the fastest V series drive that we have seen to date (as one would expect) and along with a...

Great price/performance ratio. Priced well below $1 per GB.

Older SF-2181 loses speed in random read/writes, or when working with uncompressed data.

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In general I think Kingston should differentiate their SSDs more because the V300 and HyperX 3K are too similar. For example giving the HyperX 3K a 5-year warranty would help justify its high-end positioning and a higher price too, but currently...

To test the Kingston SSDNow V300 240G Upgrade Kit I used ATTO disk benchmark and CrystalDisk Mark. These two programs give a pretty good indication of level of performance one can expect. Testing Methodology: Here are the results and the Kingston...

The drive is available at RM 299 but it doesn’t come with an installation kit, and yet it costs more than the Intel 330 series of the same size that comes with an installation kit (RM 269)! I didn’t buy an Intel 330 series because I already have one,...