💾 Kingston Digital 60GB SSDNow V300 SATA 3 2.5 (7mm height) Solid State Drive: Improved Performance and Reliability Review

I have this small 60GB drive as the main boot drive on a Linux server. This hard drive allows my Lubuntu OS to fly for everything I do. For a smaller operating system, I would unreservedly recommend one of these Kingston SSDs. If you're using Windows, you're not going to get much with 60GB, so I'd go for something bigger. Note. If you are using an SSD, make sure TRIM is enabled! On Linux you need to enable TRIM as it is different on most distributions. In the case of Ubuntu, it's been supported

After a bad experience with another brand, my search for another 60GB SSD found this drive. Pros: + Not too expensive and shipping was free. + Very good customer ratings. + Easy installation. I used Casper 8.0 to clone my existing hard drive.+ This drive works great with a PATA (IDE) to SATA adapter.+ Faster system boot up. So I had to use a PATA (IDE) to SATA adapter. Access to the SSD is so fast that the disk activity indicator is almost useless. Solid state drives wear out over time because…

I chose this particular SSD based on the reviews. I'll start by saying I'm very pleased with the performance increase I've seen with this drive. I'm sure you all know that SSDs are fast, very fast compared to HDDs. To maximize the speed of this SSD, make sure you run it in AHCI mode and not IDE mode. Everything is installed very quickly. And I did a clean install. If you need more speed from your existing PC, especially laptops, this might be what you're looking for. Let's face it, most decent…

I bought a couple of these Kingston 60GB SSDs (previous generation of these drives) as my system drive (for OS and configuration data) two years ago and I have exactly watched how they performed, how they behaved, how they dealt with TRIM and everything else. They have held up perfectly, there can be no question of performance losses. They're used on two always-on servers and mirrored to a slow-spinning hard drive, but with a large pending write queue, so write speeds aren't too bad if you're…

Purchased to replace a failed drive. The price was good. The original drive (same model and capacity) had a strange bug that prevented the computer (Ubuntu) from booting. Mounted the drive on another computer and was able to read all partitions. Seems like a pretty weird bug for both an SSD and an MLC. Formatted/partitioned a new drive, copied everything, wrote a new boot sector and it works fine. I probably wouldn't buy if I didn't need an identical replacement.

It took a little fiddling but I got it working, it's fast and quiet. I'm using Kubuntu 12.04 and have tried using Clonezilla and the software that came with the Kingston drive many times. The problem was I was trying to switch from a larger drive to this smaller Kingston drive. The software that came with it just couldn't set up the drive to boot, and Clonezilla kept crashing as well. I was able to shrink the disk partition I wanted to create on a Kingston drive using KDE tools. Still not…

My read/write tests are within Kingston's specs. The capacity is 55.90GB/60,019,835,904 bytes. systems. Both came with firmware 505ABBF1. Since these are bare drives I went to the Kingston support site to check the downloads and saw that there was 525ABBF0 firmware available for this model, as well as "Toolbox 2.0" (which is version 2.0.7A after extracting and running). The software (which only works on Windows. Apple/Unix/Linux users don't seem to deserve the inclusion) has a "Firmware Update"