Thread: Kingston SSDNow M 80 GB

KingstOn has recently launched three different series of SSDs that go under the name of SSDNow.

Kingston SSDNow M series uses Intel's X25-M SSD and has put a slight twist on it. Kingston has given the drive a thick external plastic covering along the edges that makes this drive even more rugged. Either way, in the absence of moving parts, SSDs have an advantage over HODs as far as durability is concerned.

We compared the performance of the Kingston SSDNow M with a WD Velociraptor 300 GB and found that the SSD ow is definitely fast in terms of read scores, but not able to beat the WD in terms of write scores during the synthetic benchmarks such as HD Tach RW and SiSoft Sandra.

The results of our real world file transfer tests show that the Kingston SSDNow is slower than the WD Velociraptor when it comes to write speed, but is faster during read cycles.

We feel that SSDs Just cost too much and you should wait till they become main stream and cheaper before going for them.