Kingston SSDNow V+200 240GB

The SSDNow V+200 is designed for business organisation users, using asynchronous retentiveness versus the HyperX's synchronous chips for "the perfect remainder of performance and affordability". It notwithstanding uses SandForce's SF-2281 and comes in v capacities: 60GB, 90GB, 120GB, 240GB and 480GB. All have read speeds of 535MB/s (20MB/due south slower than the HyperX). The 60GB has write speeds of 460MB/south while the 90GB, 120GB, 240GB and 480GB tout 480MB/due south (too 20MB/s slower than the HyperX).

Like most SSDs, the SSDNow V+200 adheres to the 2.v" form factor, measuring 69.85 x 100 10 ix.5mm and weighing 115g. They consume upwardly to 3.2 watts in use and merely 0.56 watts at idle, which is slightly more the HyperX 3K.

The SSDNow 5+200 comes loaded with 25nm Intel 29F64G08ACME3 MLC NAND flash memory. Our review sample has sixteen 16GB NAND ICs for a total capacity of 256GB, but once more, this drive is marketed as 240GB because 16GB is reserved for data parity (8GB for Enhance), garbage collection, and block replacement. Once formatted, 240GB drops to 224GiB, losing roughly 7% in the GB to GiB conversion.

Priced at $335 ($350 with an upgrade kit), the SSDNow V+200 240GB costs $ane.37 per gigabyte, which is well-nigh equal to the HyperX drives (concluding year'due south models, not the 3K units we're covering in this review).

Over again, Kingston states that the 240GB version supports a Total Bytes Written (TBW) rating of 153.6TB and you'd take to write 140GB of data per day for three years to exceed that -- highly unlikely, to say the least. We believe almost users will only average nigh 10GB worth of writes per day, which ways even the 60GB SSDNow Five+200 should final upwardly to x years based on Kingston's calculations.

As with the HyperX 3K, the SSDNow Five+200 is backed by a 3-year warranty, which is fairly standard.