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I just brought a few more 64gig kingston ssdnow v300 ssd's. An older model no longer been manufactured.
The market that covers ssd's 60gig and smaller is now dominated by chinese players, but there used to be some very high quality ssd's in this sector.
When I built my PFSENSE unit, I put in a 64gig mini sata sms200 kingston ssd (KINGSTON SMS200S360G), this has write endurance warranty equal to my 850 PRO a ssd that costed 20x as much. It came with DRAM and MLC nand. Decent random read/write performance, and only costed me £25.
Since then time has moved on, kingston have ditched 64gig and lower capacities meaning they have exited the market in that price range.
On their website is models such as the UV400 listed. That is a TLC ssd with much lower (rated warranty) endurance, and much lower random performance. Lowest capacity 120gig. The price per gig is no more favourable than the superior previous models, but the entry price is higher due to the higher starting capacity. So is a downgrade of components at same cost to consumer.
What are kingston competing against?
Sandisk, DRAMless ssd's, no DRAM at all in the SSD's, they are either MLC or TLC is a lottery, sandisk provide only sequential speeds on their official specs, no other type of spec is listed including endurance and random performance.
Various chinese branded SSD's also exist in this market, with high level of reports of either DOA or dead within 3 months of use. The majority of these SSDs have no dram, although they do often list MLC not TLC as the nand used. But could be reject nand pushed aside by the bigger companies.
The V200 was a very good SSD for its price, the V300 is not as good but still obtainable on ebay new for original RRP prices, the replacement to the V300 is horrific spec wise and ideally avoided. I would rather buy a used v200 or v300 over a brand new current kingston model, or sandisk, or chinese ssd.
So if anyone is wanting ssd's for small projects like pfsense, test install's, portable install's etc. where low capacity is fine, then I would stock up on older generation drives whilst you can as this part of the market has deteriorated quite badly.
The market that covers ssd's 60gig and smaller is now dominated by chinese players, but there used to be some very high quality ssd's in this sector.
When I built my PFSENSE unit, I put in a 64gig mini sata sms200 kingston ssd (KINGSTON SMS200S360G), this has write endurance warranty equal to my 850 PRO a ssd that costed 20x as much. It came with DRAM and MLC nand. Decent random read/write performance, and only costed me £25.
Since then time has moved on, kingston have ditched 64gig and lower capacities meaning they have exited the market in that price range.
On their website is models such as the UV400 listed. That is a TLC ssd with much lower (rated warranty) endurance, and much lower random performance. Lowest capacity 120gig. The price per gig is no more favourable than the superior previous models, but the entry price is higher due to the higher starting capacity. So is a downgrade of components at same cost to consumer.
What are kingston competing against?
Sandisk, DRAMless ssd's, no DRAM at all in the SSD's, they are either MLC or TLC is a lottery, sandisk provide only sequential speeds on their official specs, no other type of spec is listed including endurance and random performance.
Various chinese branded SSD's also exist in this market, with high level of reports of either DOA or dead within 3 months of use. The majority of these SSDs have no dram, although they do often list MLC not TLC as the nand used. But could be reject nand pushed aside by the bigger companies.
The V200 was a very good SSD for its price, the V300 is not as good but still obtainable on ebay new for original RRP prices, the replacement to the V300 is horrific spec wise and ideally avoided. I would rather buy a used v200 or v300 over a brand new current kingston model, or sandisk, or chinese ssd.
So if anyone is wanting ssd's for small projects like pfsense, test install's, portable install's etc. where low capacity is fine, then I would stock up on older generation drives whilst you can as this part of the market has deteriorated quite badly.
