Kingston’s latest SSDNow V+ reviewed in 128GB flavor

Kingston’s SSDNow V+ series is hitting the streets, and bit-tech.net has put it, and its new Toshiba controller, through the wringer. That new silicon offers TRIM support in Windows 7, intended to remove any lingering fears of performance degradation, and this drive has been graced with 128MB of internal cache to conquer random read and write performance. In general the review finds that the controller does its job and TRIM’d deletes don’t have a major affect on performance, but there still was some degradation after 1TB worth of writes and deletes. Beyond that the included cache didn’t seem to help random I/O performance, and in general the drive doesn’t exactly dominate the benchmarks. So, if you’ve recently upgraded to something else and were feeling a bit of buyers’ remorse, you’re safe — for now.

Kingston’s latest SSDNow V+ reviewed in 128GB flavor originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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