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Review: Kingston SSDNow Vseries Desktop Kit

Posted by: Michael on Thu, Jul 09th, 2009

A few weeks ago I received the Kingston SSDNow Vseries Desktop kit, basically it’s a kit that will allow you to upgrade your desktop hard drive to an SSD Drive.

Now you may be asking yourself why would you want an SSD drive in your desktop? Well it will increase your boot time, increase the load time of your applications and even games so I ask, why not use an SSD drive as your main OS drive and using a traditional platter drive as storage?

Check out this video I made a few weeks ago, when I unboxed the drive so you can see what it comes with.

The brackets that come with the drive, increase the size of the SSD drive so that it can fit in a traditional HDD drive bay. Once you add those it’s pretty easy to install the drive and self explanatory.

After I installed the drive, the first thing I did was install an OS, and of course I chose Windows 7. Care to guess how long it took me to install Win7 on the Kingston SSDNow Vseries drive? Under 6 minutes. It was so fast I couldn’t go take a shower like I normally do when I am installing an OS.

After two weeks of using the drive and having my system loaded up with programs, guess how long it takes Windows to Shut down and Boot up back to the desktop with everything loaded? Under a minute!
That right there should tell you the speed you are getting from this drive.

While the Kingston SSDNow VSeries isn’t the fastest SSD drive available, it’s a pretty damn good drive and it had an average read speed of 110 MB/s from test I ran which is excellent in my book.

Plus for the $259 price tag you really can’t go wrong for the performance boost you get, and because of that we recommend this drive to anyone looking to upgrade to SSD and award it our 5 Star Must Have Award.

For more info on the drive visit: http://www.kingston.com