Kingston SSDNow

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Jun, 2025

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 213 reviews of Kingston SSDNow. The average rating for this product is 4.5/5, compared to an average rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category for all reviews. Reviewers really like the reliability. The price also gets good feedback. Some have doubts about the size, while there are some mixed opinions about the design.

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We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other products in the same category the Kingston SSDNow is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 93/100 = Excellent quality.

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 5 user reviews of Kingston SSDNow from Amazon.co.uk. The average user rating for this product is 4.0/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.co.uk. Reviewers are impressed by the price. The usability also gets good reviews, whereas there are some negative opinions about the size.

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100% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

Jun, 2025

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Amazon.com review summary for Kingston SSDNow

alaTest has collected and analyzed 25 user reviews of Kingston SSDNow from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 4.6/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.com. People are impressed by the reliability. The price is also appreciated, but there are some mixed reviews about the size.

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100% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Jun, 2025

Expert review by : Simon Crisp (techradar.com)

Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 480GB review

Less than £1 per gigabyte for decent SSD speeds

Large capacity ; Good value ; RAISE technology ; SandForce controller

Average performance ; Slow write speeds ; Struggles with incompressible data

Tech Specs Product TypeSolid State Drive Product FamilySSDNow V+200 Drive InterfaceSATA Drive Width2.5" Drive Interface StandardSATA/600 --> Brand NameKingston Drive TypeInternal Storage Capacity480 GB Maximum Read Transfer Rate535 MBps Maximum...

Jun, 2012

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Expert review by : Allan 'Zardon' Campbell (kitguru.net)

Kingston SSDNow V+200 90GB Review

The Solid State market has been thriving in the last six months. Part of this growth has been caused The Solid State market has been thriving in the last six months. Part of this growth has been caused by the Thailand floods which raised the prices of...

Great price point.

Incompressible data performance is lacking.

Kitguru says: A great value for money drive.

Mar, 2012

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Expert review by : Matthew Murray (pcmag.com)

Kingston SSDNow V+200 (120GB) Upgrade Kit

The Kingston SSDNow V+200 kit provides a no-nonsense—and almost too no-frills—way to upgrade your spinning drives to SSD speed.

Good write performance. Included accessory kit is a full-featured upgrade solution. Affordable.

Inconsistent read performance. Utilizes last-generation transfer technologies.

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Feb, 2012

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Expert review by : Roydon Cerejo (tech.firstpost.com)

Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 (90GB) Review

While SSDs are far from being mainstream drives or taking over as your primary drive, they are getting there, ...

At a street price of Rs.10,000, the Kingston V+ 200 is a quite an expensive proposition for just 90GB. We recommend you put in a little more and pick up their HyperX series of SSDs. You can get the 120GB HyperX SSD, which has the Synchronous NAND flash...

Mar, 2012

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Consumer review (reevoo.com)

Kingston SUV400S37/120G

reasonably priced ssd, no problems with it so far

Dec, 2017

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Kingston SUV400S3B7A/480G

works well

none at moment

Dec, 2017

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Kingston SUV400S3B7A/240G

Used as a replacement for a slow running HDD. Works fine now.

Using the cloning Software supplied was not clear or intuitive. It was also unable to fix a partition issue and defaulted on the cloning process. Ended up using EASEUS free partition SW. Cleared partition fault. Reset partition. Cloned. Cleared and...

Dec, 2017

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