Kingston SSDNow V Series 40GB SSD NOW $76 w/ FS

runnin17 · Mar 29, 2010

(NOW $75.56) Kingston SSDNow V Series 40 GB Solid State Drive SNV125-S2/40GB $75.56+FSSS (No Tax for most and No Rebate required)
Lowest thus far.

Amazon Link

Unofficial TRIM support. Great drive I already own one. Picked up another for RAID SSD's!
:rockout:

How to get your 40GB Kingston to support TRIM

Using your Kingston SSD with Intel SSD toolbar

credit to apinunw @ slickdeals.net for the deal

Kantastic · Mar 29, 2010

That's a hell of a price... but there's no TRIM support!

runnin17 · Mar 29, 2010

Kantastic said:
That's a hell of a price... but there's no TRIM support!

Read the links that I posted. This drive "unofficially" supports TRIM. Remember it is an Intel drive and can be made to act like one, firmware and all.

Kantastic · Mar 29, 2010

runnin17 said:
Read the links that I posted. This drive "unofficially" supports TRIM. Remember it is an Intel drive and can be made to act like one, firmware and all.

So is this a firmware hack? How long will it last?

[Ion] · Mar 29, 2010

Kantastic said:
So is this a firmware hack? How long will it last?

From what I read, forever. But I'd still rather spend the extra money for the Intel X25-V so I don't have to mess with it

runnin17 · Mar 30, 2010

[Ion] said:
From what I read, forever. But I'd still rather spend the extra money for the Intel X25-V so I don't have to mess with it

Been using it on my drive for 3 months. Works great. Better than spending $50 extra on the "same" drive.

[Ion] · Mar 30, 2010

runnin17 said:
Been using it on my drive for 3 months. Works great. Better than spending $50 extra on the "same" drive.

So will it flash to the X25-V on an Gigabyte mobo? I saw some reports over @ OCN that issues with Gigabyte boards, especially with AMD chipsets, can have issues.

EDIT: So it's now up to $100, would it still be better to get this, and hope for a flash, than to pay the extra $25 for an Intel?

runnin17 · Mar 30, 2010

Not sure about the Gigabyte mobo's. Has worked just fine on both my Asus boards. Just wait till it drops down in price again. Not worth it to spend $100 on it. $85 is a good deal and $75 is a great deal.

Also, even if you end up having trouble with TRIM how much are you really going to be writing to the drive. I use mine for OS, key programs and certain games that will fit. I just make a disk image of the drive every month or so (when I install something major or new that I want to keep) and if the disk starts slowing down I can wipe it, restore to factory and copy the image back to the drive. Good as new.

[Ion] · Mar 30, 2010

So I ended up going with the Intel X25-V 40GB, my dad said that he wouldn't let his credit card be used for the Kingston, because, and I quote:

"It would be stupid to spend $100 on the Kingston SSD without official TRIM support and then risk destroying it when you could spend $25 more on the actual Intel one"

Well, at least it's a blazing-fast SSD for a great price, although I would have rather picked up the Kingston and tried to flash it

Darkgundam111 · Mar 30, 2010

man i am really really tempted to get this. been wanting one for a long time, but i am not sure if i will screw something up in the process of flashing it haha.

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