Kingston Technology SV300S37A/120G 120 GB Solid State Drive V300 SATA 3, USB 2.0, 2.5 Inch, Grey

My hard drive died , Toshiba 5400rpm 1TB in my HP Envy 17. I'm not a power user of the laptop so this was a good choice , price and size were good for a quick buy. Easy to install and really fast to load windows 10 from the dvd , , so so quick. This being the first time i have had to deal with a dead hard drive and my laptop out of warranty there were a few nerves at the beginning , but it was so easy to replace the hard drive. Took the power cable out , battery off and one screw out to get at the service bay. Pulled the cable off and removed hard drive and took off this blue rubber thing that was surrounding the hard drive , popped new kingston ssd in the blue rubber thing and popped the cable back in and replaced the service cover with the one screw and i was done. Simple. Putting windows 10 on it was so fast ( longest part was file copying ). Huge improvement on speed as you would expect and as i'm not a power user this drive is perfect for my needs. Windows boots in seconds , and i mean seconds to the desktop. This meets my expectations , cheap and fast giving new confidence and a smile at this nearly 3 year old laptop.

Well, it's just arrived today. This will be a rolling review, updated as I use it. So far, a good sturdy feeling drive, lots of reviews on the web have been very complementary about it (i spent ages researching it). It is marketed as a budget drive. But what's budget about it? Well from the looks of the reviews it's not able to handle as high a workload as many of the other more expensive drives. BUT as one review pointed out, the amount of work they were using to test it was pretty high (64 queue depth)and way out of the way of people who use their system to a 'normal' degree. So it looks like if you are doing ALOT of things all at once and all wanting disk access, other drives may be better. BUT if you are doing all that you're likely to look for the higher performing drives anyway. On the positive side the reviews show it holds it's own VERY well in other areas compared again to the more expensive drives. **UPDATE 1 MONTH ON*** It's great, boots INCREDIBLY quickly and windows now flies around. If like me you are spending ages looking at all the different options and require a good fast drive and you're not going to be overloading it with work then save yourself some time and just get this one. **UPDATE 1 YEAR ON*** Excellent still (although am running out of space!!) It was time to buy another one today, BUT i just saw the reviews above. UHHOH,,,,may rethink my purchase!!!!!

** UPDATE ** Please see the end of this review for reasons NOT to buy this ** This is my first venture into SSDs. I researched the subject carefully (Anandtech !), and it seems that SSDs are not straightforward bits of kit at all. However they have been around for a few years, and because this is a new model I'm hoping that most of the kinks have been worked out. Also for some reason I never seem to take the straightorward or safe option (which would have been a Samsung 840), and certainly wouldn't have been a Sandforce based drive.However the technology in the Sandforce controller intrigues me. There have been many well publicised issues with SF2281 based SSDs (and this is one of those), but that seems to have been a generation or 2 of firmware ago. Mine came with firmware 5.05 and so far has been fine. This drive doesn't seem to be user firmware upgradeable (at least there are no firmwares on Kingston's site), which I hadn't appreciated when I ordered it. UPDATE - I have downloaded the toolbox software from Kingston and there is an option to upgrade the firmware, however even though I know that 5.06 is being factory installed on the Chinese made versions of this drive, it is not available using this tool - good job too as 5.06 seems to be an awful lot slower than 5.05 which is what my (Taiwanese) version came with. It is blazingly quick, Windows 7 is ready to go (not just booted to desktop!) in 20 seconds from a cold start (and at least 5 seconds are performing POST). This is on a new build PC with a fresh copy of Windows on it. Applications load very quickly - Quickbooks loads in a second or 2 compared to over 20 seconds on our old office PC. The disk gets a score of 7.9 (top marks) in Windows 7 experience index, as it should. Also Windows 7 has recognised it as an SSD and has disabled defragmentation and enabled TRIM as expected. I'm very happy with it, but if the Samsung 840 (any version EVO or PRO or plain 840) were the same price I would have got one of those. **UPDATE** I'm still happy with mine, but it appears later versions of this drive use asynchronous nand, and these drives are making a lot of people angry as they don't perform to the level of the earlier drives. I had heard of this and thought it was due to the firmware, but it has been confirmed by Kingston that it is due to hardware differences. Therefore I wouldn't recommend anyone buy one of these unless it's very cheap. My disk is version 505ABBF1 and this is the good one with synchronous nand, the poor one seems to be version 506ABBF0.

Bonjour, Très bon produit, pas cher facile à installer. Avec Ease-US en version essai pour dupliquer la partition système existante : Opérationnel en 25 min. Moins de 15 sec pour démarrer W7 sur PC récent (Intel Core2Duo 3 GHz, 4Go RAM, SSD + HDD) : Le logo animé de W7 n 'a pas le temps de se coller lors du démarrage, c'est pour vous dire :D Moins de 30 sec pour un PC un peu plus 'vieux' (Intel Core2 2,5 GHz, 6Go RAM, SSD + HDD) ET surtout moins de 15 sec pour un portable ASUS (Intel B950, 4Go RAM, SSD + HDD) A l'origine HDD 2.5" et démarrage LONGGGGGGG (plusieurs min : 3 à 4 min) et usage poussif dû au HDD origine. Sinon débit bien supérieur au HDD classique, mais peut-être en deça des spec constructeur. Bon y a toujours mieux, mais là le prix c'est just un must. Je recommande.

Quite fast, my bootup speed and other application start up improved significantly. I don't feel any lag just click and go. I am never going back to HDD agains. It's better to invest in a ssd than better processor or something like that. If out of budget you can use 32/64/128 gb just to have your os. That will also improve things significantly. Combined with USB 3.0 read/write speeds are totally awesome. Hope these become much cheaper and mainstream.

Faccio una piccola premessa: pur essendomi informato guardando dati tecnici e cose del genere prima di prendere questo ssd, questa recensione sarà molto terra terra, perchè le caratteristiche e le prestazioni potete trovarle comodamente in qualsiasi sito internet o in altre recensioni, qui cercherò di dire come va questo disco nell'utilizzo quotidiano. La mia ragazza, dopo aver cambiato pc, mi ha regalato il suo vecchio lenovo ideapad flex 10 per disperazione: il pc montava windows 8.1 ed era INUTILIZZABILE. Ci metteva un paio di minuti ad aprire programmi come chrome, spesso le lettere comparivano diversi secondi dopo essere state digitate, il touch non era reattivo, ecc ecc. Per prima cosa ho aggiornato il pc a win 10, il miglioramento c'è stato, ma nulla di così evidente. Ho quindi deciso di prendere un ssd. Ho optato per il Kingston da 120 GB per alcuni motivi: - questo è un secondo pc per me, mi serve per l'università principalmente per office, navigazione e consultazione pdf, e questo giustifica la scelta del taglio di memoria - volevo risparmiare il più possibile, e 40 euro è un prezzo eccezionale - è vero, ci sono ssd migliori, ma il loro prezzo è più alto del 50% rispetto a questo e per me il gioco non valeva la candela Ordinato con prime, il disco è arrivato il giorno dopo (amazon eccezionale), l'ho montato e ho fatto un'installazione pulita di windows 10 (cosa che consiglio). Be, il pc è rinato! Ora si avvia in meno di 10 secondi e l'apertura dei programmi è fulminea. Come vi avevo detto, pensavo di usarlo come pc d'appoggio, invece va talmente bene che spesso lo utilizzo anche in casa al posto del mio pc principale (è vero, lo faccio per la comodità delle dimensioni, ma ha comunque raggiunto prestazioni buone, altrimenti lo userei il meno possibile). Vi giuro, se mi avessero detto che questo è lo stesso pc che fino a due settimane fa era inutilizzabile, non ci avrei creduto. Prendo spunto per dare un consiglio a qualche studente universitario o a qualcuno che necessiti di un pc senza troppe pretese: valutate seriamente l'acquisto di un pc da 10/11" e di montare questo ssd. Di pc usati se ne trovano anche a poco prezzo, e con 40 euro in più (a salire a seconda della memoria) potrete veramente avere un pc ottimo per appunti durante le lezioni o le conferenze, o come supporto in biblioteca. Come ultima prova di quanto mi sia piaciuto questo ssd, vi dico che sono molto tentato di fare l'upgrade anche sul mio pc principale, anche se questo invaliderebbe l'estensione di garanzia che ho fatto (e pagato). Spero che questa recensione vi sia stata utile e che vi abbia trasmesso quanto un ssd possa cambiare un pc nell'utilizzo quotidiano. Un pc in più fa sempre comodo, e con questo disco potrete riportare in vita computer che fino a ieri avreste voluto sbattere contro il muro. Consigliatissimo.

Die Kingston SV300S37A/120G SSDNow V300 SSD-Festplatte hat mich in jeder Hinsicht beeindruckt und ist eine absolute Empfehlung für alle, die ihre Computerleistung auf ein neues Niveau heben möchten. Mit ihrer schnellen Performance und der zuverlässigen Qualität setzt sie neue Maßstäbe für interne SSD-Festplatten. Die 120 GB Speicherkapazität bieten ausreichend Platz für Betriebssystem, Programme und Dateien, und sorgen für eine spürbar schnellere Systemstartzeit und eine flüssigere Arbeitsleistung. Die SATA III-Schnittstelle ermöglicht eine beeindruckende Datenübertragungsgeschwindigkeit, die herkömmlichen HDD-Festplatten deutlich überlegen ist. Programme starten in Sekundenschnelle und das Laden von Dateien wird zum Kinderspiel. Die Installation der Kingston SV300S37A/120G SSDNow V300 war denkbar einfach. Die 2,5-Zoll-Bauform ermöglicht eine problemlose Integration in Laptops oder Desktop-Computer. Die schwarze Optik verleiht der Festplatte zudem ein elegantes Erscheinungsbild. Was die Kingston SV300S37A/120G SSDNow V300 wirklich auszeichnet, ist ihre Zuverlässigkeit. Kingston ist bekannt für seine hochwertigen Produkte und diese SSD-Festplatte bildet da keine Ausnahme. Mit ihrer soliden Verarbeitung und der fortschrittlichen NAND-Flash-Technologie bietet sie eine langlebige Leistung und sorgt dafür, dass Ihre Daten sicher und geschützt sind. Die Kingston SV300S37A/120G SSDNow V300 SSD-Festplatte ist auch äußerst energieeffizient. Dank des geringen Stromverbrauchs trägt sie zur Verlängerung der Akkulaufzeit von Laptops bei und spart langfristig Energiekosten. Alles in allem kann ich die Kingston SV300S37A/120G SSDNow V300 SSD-Festplatte uneingeschränkt empfehlen. Sie bietet eine blitzschnelle Performance, eine zuverlässige Qualität und eine einfache Installation. Wer auf der Suche nach einer leistungsstarken und zuverlässigen SSD-Festplatte ist, wird mit der Kingston SV300S37A/120G SSDNow V300 definitiv zufrieden sein.

Le Kingston SSDNow V300 est une excellente solution pour revitaliser un PC un peu ancien. Une fois installé, le système d’exploitation démarre en quelques secondes, et l’ouverture des logiciels est beaucoup plus fluide qu’avec un disque dur classique. Sa capacité de 120 Go le destine surtout à accueillir Windows et quelques programmes essentiels, mais pour les jeux ou les fichiers volumineux, un disque secondaire reste nécessaire. L’installation est simple : il suffit de le brancher en SATA et de cloner son ancien disque ou de réinstaller Windows. Les performances en lecture/écriture sont très correctes pour un SSD d’entrée de gamme, même si elles ne rivalisent pas avec les modèles actuels. Un bon choix économique pour donner une seconde jeunesse à son ordinateur ou pour un usage bureautique rapide.