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(Very late) Don't get the Kingston SSDNow SSDs

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I've been seeing way too many posts that contain the SSDNow series of SSDs.

DON'T get them. Their memory controller and actual R/W speeds are awful, and sometimes can be compared to a hard drive.

Kingston, after they sent the review SSDs out, switched the memory controllers to Micron (iirc) and were MUUUUUCH slower than the original shipment.

 

It's a very late PSA which might be well needed.

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i'll keep that in mind

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I really don't see why anyone would ever get an SSD not from Samsung or Crucial. Intel and SanDisk are alright too.

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You're the king of slow!

 

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I really don't see why anyone would ever get an SSD not from Samsung or Crucial. Intel and SanDisk are alright too.

OCZ? They make great ones (expensive, though.)

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always wanted an amd radeon r7 ssd :P

Same. But, they're too expensive. A 850 PRO is better, but more expensive. An 850 EVO isn't much of a downgrade.

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kkk

 

 

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I got my v300, with mounting hardware and adapter, for $50 last black friday. I can't stand it when people tell me it's a horrible SDD - for the price it is certainly worth it. So what if it get 180 Mb/s? That's 1.8 times faster than my hard drive. Nvidia's promised crazy performance on pascal, but if that turns out to be around a 1.8X improvement instead of the 10X promised literally nobody would care.

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You're the king of slow!

 

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Sass overload.

Don't start a post without pc specs.

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I got my v300, with mounting hardware and adapter, for $50 last black friday. I can't stand it when people tell me it's a horrible SDD - for the price it is certainly worth it. So what if it get 180 Mb/s? That's 1.8 times faster than my hard drive. Nvidia's promised crazy performance on pascal, but if that turns out to be around a 1.8X improvement instead of the 10X promised literally nobody would care.

But it is a horrible SSD, from a company that deceived their customers.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7763/an-update-to-kingston-ssdnow-v300-a-switch-to-slower-micron-nand

http://www.overclock.net/t/1457629/psa-about-the-kingston-v300-ssd-probable-foul-play-by-kingston

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I got my v300, with mounting hardware and adapter, for $50 last black friday. I can't stand it when people tell me it's a horrible SDD - for the price it is certainly worth it. So what if it get 180 Mb/s? That's 1.8 times faster than my hard drive. Nvidia's promised crazy performance on pascal, but if that turns out to be around a 1.8X improvement instead of the 10X promised literally nobody would care.

^This

 

And if Nvidia gives 10 times as fast GPU's to reviewers and actually sell the 1.8 times as fast GPU's, that wouldn't be right too?

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This was a thing a year ago, pretty sure it's been fixed in the newer revisions...

 

Were there any statements by kingston or any reviews on the later revisions? A confirmation would be nice. 

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