We tested the Kingston drive on an Intel Core i7 870 system and saw these figures were accurately reflected when we ran HD Tach 3 and CrystalDiskMark 2.2 benchmarks. The time taken to copy a 2GB folder of files within the 40GB SSD was many times slower than the 80GB and 160GB Intel X25-M drives.
Iometer shows a brighter side to the story as the read performance of the Kingston is very similar to the 160GB Intel drive, although write performance once again shows up as significantly lower. This makes sense as the hardware is very similar in both drives except that the Kingston drive uses fewer Flash chips.
The important point is that Kingston delivers on read performance and that’s exactly what you need when you’re starting Windows or loading an application off the disk and into memory.
The matter of the 40GB capacity is somewhat vexed. You need to allow 20GB for an installation of Windows 7 so you’ll have to work damn hard to get your boot drive down to 40GB unless you’re happy installing applications to a secondary drive. Provided you can handle the discipline of uninstalling unwanted application and games, we predict that the Kingston will make massive inroads into the desktop market.
But what we really want is a cheap 80GB SSD as that would make life much easier.
Verdict
Kingston has delivered a disguised Intel X25-M that will transform your PC for a trivial amount of cash. ®
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COMMENTS
@A J Stiles
"Is Windows *still* treating separate physical drives as logically separate?"
Big fucking deal, so what. Now go read up on NTFS mount points and stop being a trolling retard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_Mount_Point
Get the 64GB V+ version
Get the 64GB V+ version (Kingston SNV225-S2/64GB). It costs £109 (just £9 more than the normal 64GB version). Its write speed is 140GB/sec and its read speed is 220MB/s - much faster!
Get the 64GB version
Get the 64GB version (Kingston SSDNow V-Series 64GB Solid State Drive (SSD). It costs £100 (ie £25 extra than the 40GB version) and its write speed is 80GB/sec (ie twice as fast). It costs a little extra but it solves all the shortcomings of the 40GB version.http://www.reghardware.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/thumb_down_32.png
2 drives in a laptop...
i have an acer 5230E here, and it contains two SATA ports, one for the HDD and one for the DVDRW drive.
Should be possible to reroute the wiring internally and mount a second SATA drive elsewhere in the case at the cost of the DVD (no biggie, use an external)
:)
@thomh, @A J Stiles
@thomh
Apple was (and is) free to use it under the terms of the CDDL, as is anyone. I can only guess that they wanted different terms, probibly a patent indemnification, which sun would not give them. Of course this is all speculation, I was not party to these discussions, if they occered.
@A J Stiles
It is true that you could build your own kernel with it. The conflicting clauses only come into force when you try to redistribute.
You could also use a GPL "shim" like nvidia does (although I have heard questions about if this really gets you around the redistribution requirements of the GPL).
There is also the possiblity of a clean-room implementation. Get just the on-disk format and independently write code to handle the format.
