SSD's or Solid State Drives are hard drives based on semiconductor memory, which means that they have no moving parts and therefore rugged, are very fast, and consume low power, thus generating less heat. Of course, this has been coming at a very high premium until now. Kingston has launched its SSDNow UV100 in its attempt to bring high performance SSD storage at a reasonable price.
The SSDNow UV100 comes in 60 GB and 120 GB capacity variants and has the 2.5" form factor, making it ideal to use even in laptops. It sports SATA 3.0 (6 GB/s) interface with backward compatibility with SATA 2.0 (3 GB/s). True to SSD standards, it boasts of read and write speeds of up to a blistering 425 MB/s. The idle power consumption stays down at 0.08 W, while it averages at just 0.108 W, which means your laptop battery will last a lot longer.
Installing a high performance SSD in your computer or laptop always results in an exceptional boost to the overall system performance with fast boot times that remain just as fast even after several months of usage. The SSDNow comes with software to allow migration from your existing hard drive to the UV100 without having to reinstall Windows and other software.
The SSDNow UV100 does look a good upgrade option if you don't mind the somewhat lower storage capacity as compared to traditional hard drives. The SSD will launch this week across all major retail outlets and will come with a 2-year warranty. However, Kingston has not released the actual pricing for the two models and it therefore remains to be seen if this will really hit the SSD sweet spot for price and performance.
UPDATE: The MRPs of the 60 GB and 120 GB storage capacity variants are Rs 5150 and Rs 7700 respectively. This indeed makes this model one of the most affordable SSDs out there.
The SSDNow UV100 comes in 60 GB and 120 GB capacity variants and has the 2.5" form factor, making it ideal to use even in laptops. It sports SATA 3.0 (6 GB/s) interface with backward compatibility with SATA 2.0 (3 GB/s). True to SSD standards, it boasts of read and write speeds of up to a blistering 425 MB/s. The idle power consumption stays down at 0.08 W, while it averages at just 0.108 W, which means your laptop battery will last a lot longer.
Installing a high performance SSD in your computer or laptop always results in an exceptional boost to the overall system performance with fast boot times that remain just as fast even after several months of usage. The SSDNow comes with software to allow migration from your existing hard drive to the UV100 without having to reinstall Windows and other software.
The SSDNow UV100 does look a good upgrade option if you don't mind the somewhat lower storage capacity as compared to traditional hard drives. The SSD will launch this week across all major retail outlets and will come with a 2-year warranty. However, Kingston has not released the actual pricing for the two models and it therefore remains to be seen if this will really hit the SSD sweet spot for price and performance.
UPDATE: The MRPs of the 60 GB and 120 GB storage capacity variants are Rs 5150 and Rs 7700 respectively. This indeed makes this model one of the most affordable SSDs out there.
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