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Kingston Technology 240GB Solid State Drive V300 SATA 3 Upgrade Bundle Kit with Adapter

by Kingston
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (251 customer reviews)


RRP: �181.39
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  • Fast - up to 10x faster than a 7200RPM hard drive
  • High Quality - features an LSI SandForce controller customised for Kingston
  • Reliable - with no moving parts, solid state drives are less likely to fail than standard hard drives
  • Economical - design optimised to make migrating to an SSD more affordable
  • Convenient - all-in-one kits with all the components for easy installation
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Kingston Technology 240GB Solid State Drive V300 SATA 3 Upgrade Bundle Kit with Adapter + Akasa AK-HDA-03 2.5-3.5 inch SSD/HDD Adapter + Kingston Technology 240GB Solid State Drive 2.5-inch V300 SATA 3
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Product Information

Technical Details
BrandKingston
Item Weight86 g
Product Dimensions10 x 7 x 0.7 cm
Item model numberSV300S3B7A/240G
ColorGrey
RAM Size245760 MB
Hard Drive Size240 GB
Wattage1 watts
Hardware PlatformPC
  
Additional Information
ASINB00ADHNAR0
Best Sellers Rank 7,986 in Computers & Accessories (See top 100)
Shipping Weight499 g
Date First Available1 Jan 2012
  
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Product Description

SSDNow V300

Revive Your Computer

Get more life out of your computer and maximise your existing investment by replacing your old hard drive with a Kingston SSDNow V300 solid-state drive. It's the most cost-efficient way to dramatically improve the responsiveness of your system -- and it's less disruptive than migrating your data to another system. SSDNow V300 is backed by free technical support and legendary Kingston reliability.

Kingston SSDNow V300 Solid State Drive
Based on PCMark Vantage, Advanced Edition HDD Test Suite
Kingston SSDNow V300 Solid State Drive
Make your system more responsive and maximise your computer investment. View larger

Kingston's SSDNow V300 is:

  • Faster -- improves speed of loading applications and system boot up
  • Reliable -- with no moving parts, solid-state drives are less likely to fail than traditional hard drives
  • Economical -- design is optimised to make migrating to an SSD more affordable
  • Convenient -- all-in-one kits are available with all the components needed for a fast and easy installation
  • Multiple capacities -- up to 480GB, to fit your workload
  • Silent -- runs silent and cool

Dependable and Durable

SSDNow V300 features an LSI SandForce controller customised for Kingston and optimised for next-generation Flash memory to deliver the utmost in quality and reliability from two leading SSD brands. Because it's made with solid-state components and has no moving parts, it's shock-proof and withstands drops and bumps.

Features Compressible Data Transfer (ATTO) 450MB/s Read and 450MB/s Write speed and Incompressible Data Transfer (AS-SSD and CrystalDiskMark) 191MB/s Read and 142MB/s Write speed.

Box Contains

1 x SSD Drive 2.5" USB enclosed
hard drive cloning software (CD)4
installation video (DVD)
7mm to 9.5mm adapter
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156 of 158 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars WARNING! Reduced performance of newer drives 30 Jan 2014
By Tech Freak
Style Name:Standalone| Size Name:60GB|Amazon Verified Purchase
Please excuse the technical nature of this review:

There are primarily two types of NAND flash which is used in SSDs, synchronous and asynchronous. Drives using the superior synchronous NAND typically have twice the read/write performance of those with the older asynchronous NAND (when compared clock-for-clock). The V300 (as initially manufactured and reviewed by many websites) used the faster synchronous NAND, but Kingston have recently changed the product to use the slower (and cheaper) asynchronous NAND. The change was confirmed by Kingston on 16 January 2014:

"We use NAND from various manufacturers both synchronous and asynchronous. The first revision you have is made with synchronous and the second asynchronous."

http://www.overclock.net/t/1457629/psa-about-the-kingston-v300-ssd-probable-foul-play-by-kingston/10#post_21596200

Tests are showing the newer V300 drives are performing at less than half the speed of the earlier V300s. Kingston are using inflated results from benchmarking software which is sympathetic to the dynamic data-compression used by the SandForce controller in the V300 to claim that the new drives still meet their "on the box" performance claims. Whilst technically correct, the real-world performance of the newer drives is significantly reduced compared to the earlier versions of the drives.

The Kingston V300 in its initial form (as I purchased four months ago) was a genuine five-star product, but this new incarnation (along with the associated deception) is simply a mediocre SSD trading off the reviews of the original drive.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Complete Rip Off 10 Feb 2014
By Darth Vader
Style Name:Standalone|Size Name:120GB
I bought one these in January and it was the 506a version (made in taiwan) and is not much better than a normal hdd, when using "AS SSD benchmark software" it is reporting it at 175mb read speed nowhere near 450mb. And reading forums it looks like all versions later than the 505a are the same and while there is a slight improvement to my boot times it is not worth it. I dont think i'll ever buy anything from Kingston again as this looks like a bit of a scam as they release a really good drive and get great reviews and then change the product completely.
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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars So far so good 3 April 2013
By A. Maxwell
Style Name:Standalone| Size Name:120GB|Amazon Verified Purchase
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.
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51 of 54 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Kingston 240GB SSD 25 Nov 2012
By Vinay TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Personal Computers
Not many reviews around for this item, so I thought I'd write one. Purchased during the black friday sale, this was delivered within four days (using the free delivery option!)

For background info, Kingston make three main series of SSD drives - V200, V+200 and HyperX. The first two are labelled as Consumer drives, and HyperX is for Enthusiasts. Confusingly, the V+200 also makes an appearance in the business drive category. The V+200 has upgraded speeds compared to V200, so you should always look for the V+ designation. My reason for choosing this was the special offer price and also the fact that Kingston use Intel/Micron chips in their drives.

The drive was marked SVP200S37A/240G and is 7mm high. The drive shell is built from metal and feels very sturdy, weight is just over 100g. Also in the pack was a rectangular plastic pad which can be attached to the drive to allow its height to be increased to 9.5mm high. Note that if you pay a few more pounds for the "kit" version of this product, you'll get an external USB drive enclosure, cables and software to allow cloning of an existing system. I didn't need that since I was planning on a fresh install (many SSD reviews suggest that doing a fresh install will ensure that Windows is set up correctly for SSDs, whereas cloning an old setup might not).

On my Thinkpad T400, Windows 7 installed on the SSD in under 30 mins. Boot times are now under 20 seconds compared to just over 2 minutes previously - this is on a system with only the OS and MS Office loaded. The weight of the SSD is slightly lower than the drive it replaced and power consumption is lower as well, so there are other benefits from the upgrade. Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Good boot drive
this SSD is a nice price and has a decent enough size for use as a boot/OS drive.

while it gets a little annoying having to direct everything to a different drive (such... Read more
Published 4 hours ago by S. N. Husain
1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer BEWARE
Bought this in November 2012 and didn't install it in my laptop until May 2013. It worked really well although not as fast as I expected. Read more
Published 1 day ago by AllanA
1.0 out of 5 stars Poor Quality main connector, plastic cracked!
Connected drive up and notice within a matter of days the plastic part of the drive main data connection has separated, drive still works but clearly will become unreliable in due... Read more
Published 1 day ago by Consumer
5.0 out of 5 stars quiet and very fast
This has meant I can run 3 major Adobe applications on my laptop simultaneously and they load really fast. Best of all the laptop is now almost silent and seems to run cooler. Read more
Published 1 day ago by Amazon Customer
2.0 out of 5 stars Bought Transcend instead
I want Kingston to know, that because of the 1 star reviews here, I bought the slightly more expensive Transcend 64GB SSD340 instead, and am quite happy with it.
Published 2 days ago by Ralph
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent delivery, and performance.
Bought this to fit along with additional memory in an ageing Advent 4211 Netbook. It has made an incredible difference to the performance of this machine. Read more
Published 2 days ago by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Kingston disc drive
makes my laptop very very fast start up and transfer files .. will require software to clone disc over ..well worth money
Published 4 days ago by Mr. Russell Fletcher
5.0 out of 5 stars Best decision ever!
Around a year ago i bought a refurbished Dell Precision desktop, an upgrade from my old laptop. The new desktop was really fast, the only thing was i didnt know much about it, so... Read more
Published 9 days ago by Ben Tyson
5.0 out of 5 stars Fast Laptop
Fitted to my laptop starts instantly.No waiting programmes load very quickly well worth the money.Small downside must keep drive tidy or it will fill up
Published 9 days ago by Robware
4.0 out of 5 stars drive
came down on exact time but can't say how it works as it was bought for someone else. as far as i know the person in question is happy with product
Published 10 days ago by Ally drake
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