Kingston V200 256GB 2.5" SATA III SSD for $139.99 AR / $129.99 AC***Live Now***

this is the slower version right? the V200?

Quote from sphingo : The deal is live but have to pay a tax in CA and a lot of bad reviews on amazon http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-SS...ewpoints=1

It looks like a lot of the bad reviews on amazon were due to an older firmware or improper installation.

Apparently with SSDs, while you can just treat it as a normal disk, you'll lose out on a significant amount of performance if you don't have AHCI set up and some performance if you don't have the partition aligned.

This is considerably cheaper than on Amazon or Newegg.

SSD is going to be hot cake for Black Friday, will wait till then..

Great value drive - not the fastest thing you can buy, but at this price who cares. A big plus is the JMicron controller doesn't slow down on non-compressible data like the Sandforce drives can.

Pretty happy and impressed with the 64GB V100 I have. Be warned that earlier versions of the V200 had issues but they have been corrected a while back via firmware upgrade.

What controller is it?

I thin this is outdated and replaced with v200+ or something

Now Kingston concentrating on sand force based hyperx models

Quote from The1andonly : Kingston is so gosh awful at rebates, they probably owe me nearly $200. After fighting for a while just gave up. Otherwise I loved the v100's, more so than my current ocz but I don't go off of stats just how fast programs open.

Kingston is usually one of the companies that gives me my rebates faster than most of the other companies.

I do 2-3 rebates each month from various companies and I haven't had any rebate problems from any of them in the past 4-years. I admit a few are slow. I can't remember, but some take up to 4-months.

When it gets to the 8-10 week point, I send an email or make a phone call asking for status of the rebate and usually I magically get the rebate 1-2 weeks later, except for the one or two companies that always take 4-months ( sorry, cant remember which ones those are )

Quote from kwonie312 : Got it. There was 10 off $150 first time-buy coupon that you can apply as well too.

Link?

Quote from shanmugam : What controller is it?

JMicron JMF661 or JMF662

No surprise that there are issues with writes. Anyone who owned (or just read up on) early SSDs that used the really old JMicron controllers know what I'm talking about.

Kind of surprising because I think Kingston used an interim JMicron controller in their V100 drives, which worked alright, albeit a bit slow compared to the competition.

long running thread on issues [notebookreview.com]

Supposedly back in June Kingston released a firmware update for 64GB and 128GB, and that the 256GB doesn't need it. Even if it performs up to spec, it isn't that much better than "slower" SATA II SSDs.

Quote from papasteves02 : Link?

http://www.buy.com/retail/coupon....d=82955137

ive never used an SSD so i would like to know where to use this. Does this replace my HDD?

Quote from kwonie312 : http://www.buy.com/retail/coupon....d=82955137

Thanks--I'll add to the original post. Makes this $129.99 after coupon + MIR

I wonder how long before 1TB SSD with the price tag of $75 is available.

Nearly 50 cents a GB. AWESOME! Holding out for a 256GB for $120. Can definitely see this happening by Christmas. Time to dump my 60's.