A question about Kingston V300 SSD

[helm10101]

Hello,

I really want to buy the Kingston V300 120GB because of its low price currently,
However, I've seen around here and other places some reviews of unhappy customers who said something about this SSD - that Kingston changed it from synchronous to asynchronous memory in the new 506 firmware (Not that I know what it means) - which makes it far slower.

But so far the average rate on Amazon is 4.5/5 stars, so I wanted to know if this issue had been solved since then and I should buy it?

Thanks

 

[helm10101]

Well now the Kingston is very cheap I guess that's why.

 

[lucido]

This is an old thread, but I'll add my reply just in case someone finds it like I did.

I bought two Kingston V300 240Gb SSD drives - one in March 2014, and another a week ago, December 2014. Both replaced mechanical drives, both were purchased from the same retailer, and both have Taiwan on the label.

The first one had regular SSD performance, quite good for the price. The second one has poor performance, even for the price: in AS SSD Benchmark, 250/180 MB/s Read/Write; in Samsung Magician, 276/247 MB/s Sequential Read / Sequential Write.

Finding this odd, I googled the drive and discovered all the user complaints. I think this is what happened: my first drive came from a "normal" batch, before they switched to lower quality materials; the second is made from those materials. Judging from the box you'd think it's the same drive, it's after you install it that the difference becomes very clear.

Bottom line: unless you feel lucky, DO NOT BUY KINGSTON V300 240Gb SSD DRIVES.

 

[Joel_baker]

This is an old thread, but I'll add my reply just in case someone finds it like I did.

I bought two Kingston V300 240Gb SSD drives - one in March 2014, and another a week ago, December 2014. Both replaced mechanical drives, both were purchased from the same retailer, and both have Taiwan on the label.

The first one had regular SSD performance, quite good for the price. The second one has poor performance, even for the price: in AS SSD Benchmark, 250/180 MB/s Read/Write; in Samsung Magician, 276/247 MB/s Sequential Read / Sequential Write.

Finding this odd, I googled the drive and discovered all the user complaints. I think this is what happened: my first drive came from a "normal" batch, before they switched to lower quality materials; the second is made from those materials. Judging from the box you'd think it's the same drive, it's after you install it that the difference becomes very clear.

Bottom line: unless you feel lucky, DO NOT BUY KINGSTON V300 240Gb SSD DRIVES.

Wow I was literally just looking for a thread like this just now and here's even more advice to help me out. I am debating between the size of a 1TB HDD or the speed of a 240gb SSD as I am on a budget and I wasn't sure if I wanted to buy an SSD now and HDD later or the other way around. Finding this SSD to be the cheapest available for my budget I thought it was for sure too good to be true, then I got into the mass amounts of talk about this product. So after all this being said I'm probably going to end up getting a 1TB HDD and upgrading later to a Samsung 840 EVO when I get the money. Thank you