Beware Kingston are putting lower spec chips in these drives versus when they were first released (and reviewed). I’ve got two and they bench about 170/130 even connected to 6gb/s which is pretty slow for SSDs (my other Hyper-X drives bench 520/230). You can read more in the reviews on amazon (just click the 1 star reviews).
Having said that, the drives still feel decently snappy and for this price they’re still a great deal IMO. I paid £65 for 120GB ones, so these are half that price which is pretty stunning. Just don’t expect 450/450 drives.
Beware Kingston are putting lower spec chips in these drives versus when they were first released (and reviewed). I’ve got two and they bench about 170/130 even connected to 6gb/s which is pretty slow for SSDs (my other Hyper-X drives bench 520/230). You can read more in the reviews on amazon (just click the 1 star reviews).
Having said that, the drives still feel decently snappy and for this price they’re still a great deal IMO. I paid £65 for 120GB ones, so these are half that price which is pretty stunning. Just don’t expect 450/450 drives.
They have now put it up to £92.99 which is not a good deal.
it says 92.99£
Deal has popped up on dabs for £78.99 (no idea on free delivery)
http://www.dabs.com/products/kingston-240gb-ssdnow-v300-sata3-2-5–7mm-solid-state-drive-8F77.html
Probably the cheaper chinese async chips but still a small increase over hdd’s. Expect max throughput of nearer 150 instead of the advertised 450…