Kingston 80GB SSDNow M Series Drive Review :: Conclusion

Author: Elric Phares · 06-14-2009 · Category: Hardware - Misc
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Kingston 80GB SSDNow M Series Drive Review

Right now SSD drives are one hot commodity in the PC industry at large and with more and more companies jumping on the band wagon it will not be long before these new drives become the mainstay of storage. They will most likely be used as your boot drive in which you're OS is installed, making for less chances of data loss. At the moment these drives are easily available up to a 160GB capacity and are a bit on the pricey stage in a drifting economy, but really do offer new advancements in storage technology. Whenever something is new to market it is this way and we will see prices drop as the market becomes flooded with various SSD products in the future, for now, you wanna play, you gotta pay. One thing to note since his drive is not a magnetic drive it does not need to be defragged as that will possibly result in damage to the SSDs memory chips.

As you can see from the test results, the Kingston 80GB M Series Drive outperforms the older magnetic counterparts in many ways and offer better shelf like as well as durability than ever seen before. Kingston has chosen a good product to offer their customers in the Intel X25 and marketing it under their SSDNow M Series moniker that includes KingstonCare, a three year warranty, and Intel's FirmWare update. As your main storage device, drives even at 160GB just cannot provide the storage you need for any computer that is used for storing, movies, music, games and a lot of programs. That said, as the boot device for your OS, this drive is a very feasible solution as it does offer faster install times and shock resilience as well as being more likely to not fail since there are no moving parts. Overall the Kingston M Series 80GB SSD is a Hot Product as it's the latest greatest advance in storage solutions available to the public. Kingston chose a good product to market and it's available online for around $350.00 US.


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