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    Kingston SSDNow V-Series Notebook Upgrade Kit Review

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by Jerry Jackson, Jul 1, 2009.

  1. soliton

    soliton Notebook Consultant

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    Has anyone checked if the Acronis cloning caused a partition misalignment and whether aligning it can improve the performance any?

    Also, any long term users got anything to complain against (such as slowdowns)?
     
    soliton, Dec 16, 2009
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  2. meanstreet

    meanstreet Notebook Guru

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    I am really thinking about getting one of these SSD's, at the same time I wondering if I should wait till the Intel drives drop down in price in the next couple of months.

    Would 250mb read vs. 100mb read times make a real difference in basic day-to-day tasks (email, Office, Adobe CS4). I am not too concerned about boot-up times at all.
     
    meanstreet, Mar 1, 2010
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  3. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    Note that the V series has been replaced by the V+ which is based on the Toshiba SSD. This promises better performance and is said to not suffer from stuttering. I've got one of the V+ SSDs on order and can do some tests next week if anyone is interested.

    Regarding the effect on the difference in read speeds, the faster SSD is better, but a lot of the performance boost relative to HDDs comes from the near-instant access times.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Mar 1, 2010
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    mr_raider Notebook Consultant

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    mr_raider, Mar 3, 2010
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  5. mr_raider

    mr_raider Notebook Consultant

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    Let me answer my own question:

    Write: 8Kbyte /Page
    Erase: 1MBtye/block (8KByte *128 pages)

    Got this from kingston tech support.
     
    mr_raider, Mar 11, 2010
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