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[H]ot ? @Egg: 120GB Kingston V300+ Lara Croft guardians of light $59.99
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That drive is garbage. Spend the extra $20 or so and get an 840 EVO, you'll be glad you did.
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+$20 is +33%....which is a lot for some people.
I think this drive should be great for a basic desktop user.
I think this drive should be great for a basic desktop user.
It's not. They've been up to no-good with these drives:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1457629/psa-about-the-kingston-v300-ssd-probable-foul-play-by-kingston
Even if the current shipping ones are back to using decent NAND, the risk of getting a bad one, combined with the massive ill will Kingston created by pulling such a move is reason enough to never buy one of these.
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CEpeep> That drive is NOT the one on sale. That is the V300. This is the V300+.
Also: Buy with shoprunner & you get free return priv's, IIRC. This also is true for the newegg preferred shipping (I forgot what it's called).
Also: Buy with shoprunner & you get free return priv's, IIRC. This also is true for the newegg preferred shipping (I forgot what it's called).
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Did this ever get released/tested?
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8570/...o-read-performance-bug-coming-on-october-15th
Apparently they are ignoring non-evo drives as well
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2836082/samsung-delivers-fix-for-ssd-slowdowns.html
http://www.pcper.com/news/Storage/S...-840-Basic-performance-slow-down-promises-fix
Don't care, wouldn't trust it. Kingston needs to take more action than adding "+" to the end of the product name if they want to repair their reputation. They shouldn't be selling anything with this branding anymore if they've changed their business practices. You deserve exactly what you get if you buy this.
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Which is what, exactly....A 120GB drive that is slow, but super cheap & faster than a spinner?
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I updated mine with it. Reads/writes without rapid mode enabled are 549/526 on my 120gb EVO. If there was a slow down before I never noticed it.
I've bought 2 Kingston V300s in the past and one was under 200 read/write and the other had 400~ read and under 200 write with crystal disk mark. I don't know, if $20-25 more is a lot for some people go ahead and get one, it's still a bit of an upgrade from an HDD.
The firmware update was released on time (a day early in the US due to being released on the 15th in Korea) and it works as intended, as validated by your own links.
Also, they are planning to release an update for the regular 840, as your 2nd link states.
But I agree with the others, wait a few days and grab an EVO for maybe $10 bucks more, guaranteed we will see 840 EVOs in the $60-70 range with the recent announcement of the 850 EVO. Personally however, I would go with at least 240+ GB, you can get Crucial MX100 or Samsung EVOs in this capacity starting at $90 for the Crucial, $110 or so for the 840 EVO. These 120GB drives are just too small nowadays.
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Terrible drive. Don't buy it. I agree with the EVO comment.
EDIT: I should state why...I was getting HORRIBLE read performance. Around 100 MB/s. I put it in my brothers HTPC and don't even think about it anymore.
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Uh 840 EVO with that crap TLC? I'd rather buy a MLC one for the same price, even if it does end up being a fair bit slower.
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I'll have to admit -- all these comments DID make me think.
I grabbed the shell shocker 120GB silicon power (good reviews at amazon & egg) for $49.99 for 120GB for a basic desktop user who I'm rebuilding a box for.
I grabbed the shell shocker 120GB silicon power (good reviews at amazon & egg) for $49.99 for 120GB for a basic desktop user who I'm rebuilding a box for.
TLC gets too much hate. You're probably not even going to be using the drive by the time it actually wears out.
Yeah people were saying the same thing re: MLC back when SSD's were ridiculously expensive and SLC was the more reliable choice, and that ended up being a lot of fuss over nothing.
Needless to say, the concerns about write-level wearing have died down and there's a good chance the drive becomes obsolete due to speed or capacity before durability becomes a concern for most users. My 5 year old Intel X25-M G2 160GB drive for example is still at like 97% drive health or something like that and it's about to be retired.
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Does anyone have the seemingly elusive specs for the V300+? I can't find them.
Not that I think it matters much...The part number in the link is associated with the "standard" V300 120GB...the lump of crap with asynchronous NAND.
Not that I think it matters much...The part number in the link is associated with the "standard" V300 120GB...the lump of crap with asynchronous NAND.
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Your X25-M is a MLC and not a TLC so that point is moot. Trying to keep 3 bits instead of 2(MLC) and 1(SLC) make it that much less re-writable. Scoff this off all you want but if TLC were so great Industrial/Enterprise would be rushing toward TLC...But of course we all know they have not.
But hey, it's not my money and not my data, so if someone like to roll the dice just to save a few bucks, by all means go for it. Whatever floats your boat.