Kingston V+ 200 240GB SSD Review

Review: Kingston
V+ 200 240GB SSD
Reviewed by: Vroom
Provided by: Kingston
Model: V+ 200
Firmware version: 501ABBF0

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Kingston is the leading name when it comes
to RAM and USB Flash drives, over the last few years Kingston has also entered the
SSD market and has shown that they want to play a leading role here too. Their
enthusiast line, the HyperX
has shown some very impressive results. What happens when you want to have the
benefits of an SSD and you don’t want to pay the premium price for an enthusiast
drive?

You simply look for the value/business
line, and the V+ 200 is that drive. The V+ 200 is built around the SandForce
controller, but this time Kingston is using asynchronous NAND, instead of the toggled
NAND that we saw in my previous review. The main benefit in using asynchronous
NAND is that it's cheaper, but it remains to be seen if the asynchronous NAND
has any impact on the performance of the SSD.

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Kingston was kind enough to send me the V+
200 SSD for review. The V+ 200 is Kingston’s business line SSD and can be found
in 60GB/90GB/120GB/240GB and 480GB capacities so that you can get the drive
that fit best your needs. It offers sequential read and write speeds up to
+500MB/Sec.  In this review I will be taking a closer look at the Kingston V+
200 240GB SSD.

Kingston's SSD product line can be found here.

Kingston company information

In 1987, Kingston® entered the market with a single product.
Founders John Tu and David Sun addressed a severe shortage of surface-mount
memory chips with a memory module that would serve to redefine industry
standards for years to come. You can read the full
history of Kingston by clicking here.

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The Kingston V+ 200 240GB SSD

Time to take a closer look at the package
and what comes shipped with.

Packaging


Box front


Box rear

Bottom
of the box

  

Box
left and right

Inside the box

 

A closer look on the drive

The package contained the V+ 200 SSD, mounting
screws, a 3.5 mounting bracket, a bootable CD-ROM containing the Acronis True
Image software and an instruction manual, an SATA cable and a USB cable for the
included external enclosure, and a screw driver.


The Kingston V+ 200 SSD

The upper side of the Kingston V+200 is
very simple, with a sticker showing all the info that you need. As we can see
the drive is made in Taiwan.


Drive underside

The underside of the drive has the SATA
power and data connectors.

On
the top side of the circuit board we can see eight NAND chips.

On
the bottom we can see another eight NAND chips and the SandForce controller.

A
closer look at the NAND,

and
the SandForce controller.

Specifications

The following specifications can be found on
Kingston's website.

From the above picture we can get a more
detailed view of the Kingston V+ 200 SSD. The V+ 200 240GB SSD has a read speed
of up to 535mb/sec and a write speed of up to 480mb/sec.  The drive has also a
three year warranty.

CrystalDiskInfo

Above
we can see some more info about the Kingston V+ 200 SSD.


Let’s head to the next page where we
take a look at our testing methods and the review PC.

 

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