Home | Forums | Article Search | Subscribe & Shop | Contact Us | Log Out Kingston SSDNow SNV125-S2BD/40GB Email This Print This View My Personal Library Heavy Gear February 2010 • Vol.10 Issue 2 Page(s) 35 in print issue Add To My Personal Library Kingston SSDNow SNV125-S2BD/40GB SSDNow SNV125-S2BD/40GB $130 Kingston www.kingston.com CPU Rating: 3.5 Specs: Capacity: 40GB; Interface: 3Gbps SATA; NAND type: MLC; Controller Type: Intel; Form factor: 2.5-inch; 1,000,000-hour MTBF Kingston is taking an interesting approach with the release of its SSDNow V-Series SNV125-S2BD/40GB. Kingston contends—and we’d have to agree—that SSDs are considered a performance and not necessarily storage upgrade by many PC enthusiasts. Many power users are pairing an SSD to a traditional hard drive with the goal of achieving increased performance, not greater storage capacity. As such, the SNV125-S2BD/40GB is designed to replace a boot drive. Kingston doesn’t expect this drive to hold more than the OS and perhaps the user’s most commonly used applications; it needs a larger capacity bulk storage drive as a complement. Instead of offering a high-capacity SSD as part of the kit, Kingston went with an Intel-built, but Kingston-branded, low-capacity 40GB SSD. The drive is essentially a pared-down X25-M, with only five flash chips inside. Other than the drive itself, the SNV125-S2BD/40GB kit includes a 4-pin Molex-to-SATA power adapter, SATA cable, and a disc complete with drive cloning software to facilitate migration from one drive to another. With the five flash chips, it doesn’t quite perform as well as higher capacity Intel SSDs that can better exploit the capabilities of Intel’s 10-channel controller, but performance was still quite good. If you haven’t experienced the benefits of an ultra-low-latency SSD as your OS/application volume, we highly recommend it. With its relatively low price and included migration tools, the Kingston 40GB SSDNow V-Series might be all the motivation you’ll need. by Marco Chiappetta Benchmark Numbers Kingston 40GB SSDNow V-Series SNV125-S2BD/40GB HD Tach Average read 178.4MBps Average write 46.5MBps Burst speed 3.9GBps Random access .1ms CPU utilization 1% ATTO Disk Benchmark 4K transfers (read/write) 183MBps/45MBps 64K transfers (read/write) 195MBps/45MBps 8MB transfers (read/write) 199MBps/45MBps  User Reviews Be the first to write a review of this product Want more information about a topic you found of interest while reading this article? Type a word or phrase that identifies the topic and click "Search" to find relevant articles from within our editorial database. Enter A Subject (key words or a phrase): ALL Words (‘digital’ AND ‘photography’) ANY Words (‘digital’ OR ‘photography’) Exact Match ('digital photography'- all words MUST appear together) Home      Copyright & Legal Information      Privacy Policy      Site Map      Contact Us Copyright © 2010 Sandhills Publishing Company U.S.A. All rights reserved.