New Kingston SSDNow V+ Gen 2 128GB with TRIM enabled

[matose]

Today Kingston refreshed their SSDNow V+ series with a new native-TRIM controller, higher read / write speeds and higher IOPS.
The SSDNow V+ Gen. 2 has a 43nm Toshiba T6UG1XBG controller and 64Gb (16GB) Toshiba MLC NAND flash memory. The capacities extend now from 64GB to 512GB and come bulk and in bundles (notebook & desktop).
The marketed speeds are 230MB/s read speed and 180MB/s write speeds and the SSD has a 128MB cache memory (Micron D9HSV ).

You can see how the new SSD compares with the Intel X25-M Gen 2 160GB here:

Kingston SSDNow V+ Gen. 2 128GB | Article in Romanian, Google Translate may be required

[XS Janus]

Cool!
...but 4k results are LOL!

[generics_user]

Cool!
...but 4k results are LOL!

i had both a x25-m and a samsung RBB drive and have to say that there is no differnce in system response time but there is a huge difference in fyle copy (samsung is much faster)

everywith above 5 mb/s is 100% fine for an OS drive

[onethreehill]

Without making too much fuss, Kingston Technology has turned the NAND capacity knob up and introduced an SSDNow V+ series drive boasting no less than 512GB worth of storage space. The high-capacity solid state drives has a 2.5-inch form factor, a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, MLC (multi-level cell) NAND memory chips, a MTBF (mean time before failure) of 1 million hours and maximum sequential read/write speeds of 230/180 MB/s.

The 512GB SSDNow V+ model is backed by a three year warranty and can be found 'on its own' @ £989.34 / $1,598 / 1,127 Euro, or within an upgrade bundle (includes cloning software, 2.5-inch enclosure, 2.5-inch brackets) @ 1197.63 Euro / $1,698.

http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.p...=32251&catid=2

Note: Your thread has been merged with this thread. - Ashraf

[Levish]

i had both a x25-m and a samsung RBB drive and have to say that there is no differnce in system response time but there is a huge difference in fyle copy (samsung is much faster)

everywith above 5 mb/s is 100% fine for an OS drive

+1 we've been fine with sub 1MB/sec from rotational drives too o_O
Although it does highly depend on the intended purpose and this is not a performance model being a -V designation.

[EniGmA1987]

Looks to me like it is an exact copy of all the Samsung based SSDs out there...

[matose]

It is totally different and definately better than any Samsung SSD

[topaimz]

Toshiba?

Please don't tell me the Toshiba controller is another "revamped" and rebadged J-micron Controller...

Only thing I would ever look forward to or buy from Toshiba is their CellTV
(If it truly does what they claim)


I have their first gen V series, and me no likey.
Switched over to a Vertex and X25, and thank God I did.

[Russian]

Why would the Toshiba controller be a "revamped" and rebadged J-micron???

[eddieobscurant]

cause the toshiba controller on v series 64gb and 128gb is a j-micron controller with different firmware which "eliminates" the stuttering issue

[Levish]

new firmware? I was under the impression that firmware updates wouldn't "fix" the Core/CoreV2 and that newer jmicron flash controller drives have either two controllers and a internal raid or a newer revision.

[generics_user]

V+ are samsung controller based which are perfectly fine

[cliffy]

V+ are samsung controller based which are perfectly fine

Pretty sure these ones are Toshiba controllers. The samsung controllers were in the "SNVP225" parts were as the "SNVP325" parts are toshiba

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...1&limitstart=0