Kingston SSDNow V310 SSD

[HardOCP News]

The SSD Review crew just put the finishing touches on their review of the Kingston SSDNow V310 SSD. If you are looking for a large solid state drive, this review will be of interest.

Although performance may not be the best, Kingston is targeting a specific demographic with this SSD, that being the beginner who will be migrating from a hard drive. Having said that, the included accessories within this SSD present a completely different outlook, one that we have yet to see from any other.

 

[TheCapulet]

Kingston has developed a habit of gaining favorable reviews for an SSD, before switching it's chips out with much slower ones, without changing anything more than the firmware revision number. Then telling customers to use a cherry picked benchmark, against industry standard. While saying that (hidden, no where on product packaging or online store fronts) on their website is a note that says their speed claims only apply to synthetic compressed data benchmarks.

Proof:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...721107&RandomID=83358184121322820140820201523
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7763/an-update-to-kingston-ssdnow-v300-a-switch-to-slower-micron-nand

These bait and switch tactics ensure that I'll never take Kingston seriously as a company again.

 

[mrpc9886]

And the pricing sucks. I agree with one of the commenters, it's a good buy if it were $395, but the MSRP of $928 then down to $599? Bah.

 

[ssnyder28]

Although performance may not be the best, Kingston is targeting a specific demographic with this SSD, that being the beginner who will be migrating from a hard drive. Having said that, the included accessories within this SSD present a completely different outlook, one that we have yet to see from any other. .

Although the drive is slow and has poor specs, Kingston is targetting ignorant users that don't understand SSDs very well. Having said that, we will still give this drive a good review even though its way overpriced because they added a couple gimmicky extras...

 

[westrock2000]

Kingston has developed a habit of gaining favorable reviews for an SSD, before switching it's chips out with much slower ones, without changing anything more than the firmware revision number.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7763/an-update-to-kingston-ssdnow-v300-a-switch-to-slower-micron-nand

Yep, will be a long long time before I even consider buying anything by them. Way too many players in the market for me to even waste my time looking at their products.

They took a gamble and got caught.

 

[omniscence]

Well, I have some Kingston 64 GB SSDs, bought as replacements for Scorpio Blue drives in various boxes - just because they were the cheapest SSDs available at that time and I wanted something completely silent. My pfsense box runs on one of them. I would never consider them for systems where I care for io performance as you have to look hard to find even the controllers they use for their various versions and brands.