Kingston Rolls Out New SSDNow V+ Line

[Marcus Yam]

SSD. Now. V plus.

Kingston Rolls Out New SSDNow V+ Line : Read more

 

[tipoo]

Seems like we've already hit the performance limits with SSD's on SATA 3.0Gib/s. Bring on the new SATA spec!

 

[insider3]

Instead of 1000$ for 256GB Now, I'll just wait a few years and spend 256$ on a TB.

 

[jodelvonstuagi]

'random 4K writes of up to 291 IOPS'
Is this a typo? Very low value compared to vertex or x25-m

 

[Shadow703793]

What controller? Indilinx or something else? At any rate, more compitition = better prices. For example, the Intel G2 drove down the prices for the Vertex,etc.

 

[TidalWaveOne]

Prices are way too high.

 

[nitto555rchallenger]

Still freakishly over-priced.

 

[nachowarrior]

I third the opinions on high price point. It's just annoying that ssd's don't seem to come down in price nearly as quickly as many other PC techs are, well, considering price vs performance anyway.

 

[Guest]

Yes, what about the controller? As far as I've heard it's Samsung, so don't expect miraculous performance ;]

 

[midnightgun]

And the controller is...

 

[outlw6669]

To bad it still uses that crappy JMicron controller...

 

[caskachan]

come on, stop making them faster , first make them cheap, the work your way up >_

 

[viometrix]

as far as i understand these use similair technology to usb flash drives with a hard drive interface.... the flash technology is super cheap, so why so exspensive for a solid state drive... and if they replace regular hard drives too fast, no one will be able to afford a computer

 

[martel80]

[citation][nom]VioMeTriX[/nom]as far as i understand these use similair technology to usb flash drives with a hard drive interface.... the flash technology is super cheap, so why so exspensive for a solid state drive... and if they replace regular hard drives too fast, no one will be able to afford a computer[/citation]
Because to reach speeds like this you need many smaller flash chips (working in parallel) while in a USB drive, one big chip is enough.

 

[dark_lord69]

Holy expensive steps backward batman!