Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB Solid State Drive

The Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB solid state drive covered in this review has a respectable capacity of 120GB. Although marketed as a "notebook bundle kit," this SSD will perform just the same in either a desktop or notebook environment.

With compressible data this drive exceeded its rated read and write transfer speeds by 50MB/s; Win7 loading time of 23 seconds with an overclocked i5 2500k; Fair pricing; at less than $1/GB; Included Acronis disk cloning software is very effective and simple to use

Poor; but expected sequential read/write performance with incompressible data

Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB SSD Review

As is typical for the SandForce (LSI) drives, the Kingston V300 120GB drive has ~7% overprovisioning that offers the user 111GB of usable space. If you were to purchase the 240Gb version, you'd find yourself with 223GB.

We have in our labs Kingston's latest solid-state drives (SSDs) for PCs and laptops, the SSDNow V300 Series. Designed to replace the existing SSDNow V200 models, the V300 should offer sequential read and write speeds of around 450MB/s - somewhere between five and 10 times faster than a traditional...