For users that look for speed rather than capacity, that little suffix plus in mark of this model will be very important one. Declared speeds of V+ models are significantly higher compared to regular V models: more than double for read and write. Of course, for users that look for capacity there are regular V series models that offers much larger capacity for similar price. Kingston described SSDNow V+ series as perfect choice for users that want to improve overall performances of their configuration: desktop or portable. Since hard drives are, in most cases, performance bottle necks, especially in case of portable devices (notebook, laptop, netbook), it is obvious that these SSDNow V+ drives will be interesting to very large user group. Even desktop users that are used to high performance hard drives will notice increased performance levels in case they decide to upgrade existing drives with one of these SSDs.

This is first SSD that came in sturdy metal case. Although, most of the time you won’t see it, because it will be placed inside the chassis, it is still good feeling to unpack SSD and realize that its chassis does feel trustworthy. This is standard 2.5-inch SATA drive that will perfectly fit into most laptops.

As far as performances are concerned, all we can say is impressive - in this price range. There are faster SSDs out there, but none of them has this kind of performance/price rate. Most important fact is that all users will notice speed improvement compared to regular HDDs. As you can see from our test results, we managed to get almost exactly the same transfer rates as declared by manufacturer: 220MB/s for read and 160MB/s for write transfer rates. Even transfer rates of small files are great, which are good news for users that are thinking of using one of these drives as boot drive.

One more result that surprised us was our own folder move test. It consists of folder (1.4GB) that is packed with files (25.000) of various sizes and moved from partition to partition on same drive. Result of 30s is 3 times shorter than most regular HDDs on desktop configurations and more than 10 times shorter compared to regular HDD in most notebooks.

During usual activity, speed of this drive is not that easy to notice but boot up times and application launch times are significantly decreased. In addition, agility of whole operating system is much better which is also very important. Notebooks users will be glad to hear that power consumption of this drive (as it is case with all SSDs) is lower compared to regular HDD, so upgrade will result in slightly increased autonomy.