The trend of ever cheaper SSD devices appearing on the market is evident, but these savings are in general mostly reflected on lowered capacities of such devices and cheaper (slower) controllers. Kingston’s SSDs are positioned in a price range well under 100€, which is that magical place where may users draw the line for spending more money on upgrading.

Having in mind the rather low capacity of the given device, the manufacturer’s wish to position this SSD as a system disk is obvious. As its price is low, it’s possible that certain system builders will include it in some of their on-the-line configurations, alongside a high-capacity HDD to serve as a storage disk. Besides the reviewed one, there is also a 10€ more expensive version which comes packed with 3.5” installation rails, as well as a simple piece of backup & restore software to be used for cloning your system partition.

Testing results proved our thesis of this SSD targeting the system partition sector. Writing speeds proved to be rather decrepit, falling more into the former generation HDD category, than the latest trends in SSD development. Luckily, reading speeds are much better, but the disk manages to “fly away” from ordinary HDDs only with files larger than 16 KB. Both characteristics are in accordance with the “install/write in once, read many times” philosophy.