Kingston Digital Ships Next-Gen SSDNow V Series

Kingston Digital Europe Ltd is shipping the next generation of its most cost-effective SSDNow V Series solid-state drive. The Kingston® SSDNow V300 is a powerful upgrade solution for cost-conscious consumers looking to upgrade their existing desktop or notebook PC.
 
The new SSDNow V300 is 10x faster than a 7200RPM hard-disk drive†. It is powered by an LSI® SandForce® Flash Storage Processor (FSP) solution  customised for Kingston, and optimised for industry-leading 19nm NAND Flash memory to deliver sequential read and write speeds of up to 450MB/s. Using best-in-class components, SSDNow V300 combines quality, performance and affordability for first-time SSD users or anyone looking to upgrade an existing system.
 
"LSI worked together with Kingston to deliver a customized high-performing solid-state drive solution for their cost-effective SSDNow V Series," said Kent Smith, senior director of product marketing, Flash Components Division, LSI. “Our award-winning SF-2281 Client FSPs provide Kingston’s customers with enterprise-class features and an enhanced everyday computing user experience, especially for first time SSD users.”
 

 
“Kingston is committed to delivering SSDs at the best price to performance ratio as possible. We achieve this again with our next-generation SSDNow V300,” said Ann Keefe, Regional Director UK and Ireland, Kingston. “The SSDNow V300 is the best cost-efficient upgrade for users who want their existing systems to perform faster. They will experience faster boot up and shutdown times, and will also see much better system performance when multiple applications are open.”
 
The SSDNow V300 is available as a stand-alone drive or as an upgrade kit containing cloning software and other accessories for a desktop and notebook system. SSDNow V300 is backed by a three-year warranty, free technical support and legendary Kingston reliability.
 
† Based on PCMark Vantage, Advanced Edition HDD Test Suite. Test system: Dell XPS 8500, Intel H77 Chipset, Intel® Core™ i7-3770 CPU, 8GB System Memory. SSD tested as primary drive with results based on “out-of-box” performance. This SSD is designed for use in desktop and notebook computer workloads, and is not intended for Server environments.
 
Kingston SSDNow V300 Features and Specifications:
  

• Form factor: 2.5"
• Interface: SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s) – with backwards compatibility to SATA Rev. 2.0
• Capacities(1): 60GB, 120GB, 240GB
• Sequential Reads(2):  SATA Rev. 3.0 — up to 450MB/s
• Sequential Writes(2): SATA Rev. 3.0 — up to 450MB/s

• Maximum Random 4k Read/Write (3)

60GB — up to 85,000/up to 60,000 IOPS 
120GB — up to 85,000/up to 55,000 IOPS 
240GB — up to 85,000/up to 43,000 IOPS

• PCMark® Vantage HDD Suite Score: 60GB — 39,000 : 120GB — 49,000 : 240GB — 57,000

• Power Consumption: 0.640W (MAX) Idle / 1.423W (MAX) Read / 2.052W (MAX) Write 

• Storage temperatures: -40°C ~ 85°C
• Operating temperatures: 0°C ~ 70°C
• Dimensions: 69.8mm x 100.1mm x 7mm 
• Weight: 86g
• Vibration operating: 2.17G Peak (7–800Hz)
• Vibration non-operating: 20G Peak (10–2000Hz)
• Life expectancy: 1 million hours MTBF
• Warranty/support: three-year warranty with free technical support
• Total Bytes Written (TBW) (4)

60GB — 32TB 
120GB — 64TB  
240GB — 128TB 

1 Please note: Some of the listed capacity on a Flash storage device is used for formatting and other functions and thus is not available for data storage. As such, the actual available capacity for data storage is less than what is listed on the products. For more information, go to Kingston’s Flash memory Guide at kingston.com/flash_memory_guide.

2 Based on “out-of-box performance” with ATTO Disk Benchmark 2.41. Speed may vary due to host hardware, software, and usage.

3 Based on “out-of-box performance” with IOMeter.

4 Total Bytes Written (TBW) refers to how much total data can be written to an SSD for a given workload before the drive reaches its endurance limits.


Kingston SSDNow V300 Solid-State Drives

Part Number/Capacity and Features
SV300S37A/60G 60GB Stand-alone V300 SSD
SV300S37A/120G 120GB Stand-alone V300 SSD
SV300S37A/240G 240GB Stand-alone V300 SSD
SV300S3B7A/60G 60GB Desktop/Notebook Upgrade Kit
SV300S3B7A/120G 120GB Desktop/Notebook Upgrade Kit
SV300S3B7A/240G240GB Desktop/Notebook Upgrade Kit