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God I love this thing. Oh, hi. How's it going?
Check this out. This is the Kingston 80 gigabyte SSD drive
and I just got it in the mail. And you know what?
I just find out. It is Kingston's first drive to come to market
but as you can tell it is obviously obviously obviously
an Intel X25-M SSD drive.
So this video is going to be a review on the Kinston 80 gigabye
solid state drive as well as the Intel X25-M.
I don't know how it's going to work out
but in the end this drive by Kingston
is an 80 gigabyte multi-layer cell, NAND memory SSD
that is ridicolously ridiculously fast.
Unbelievably fast. So fast that I put two of them in RAID
and I don't know, I can't tell you what happened,
because it was so fast I didn't see it.
It was really cool, these things are extremely extremely quick,
up to 250 megabytes per second burst read speeds.
Now Kingston is going to be offering two versions from Intel.
It's actually just how Intel has it,
it has the X25-E and the X25-M.
This is going to be the M version, 80 gigabytes.
They're also going to have an E version
which is only going to be the 32 gigabyte
but that's the single layer cell memory
so that's much much faster, that has much faster write speeds
and that's more for servers, enthusiasts that use that
really would have a lot of money to spend
especially if you get a couple or three or four
in RAID, you're going to be way into the thousands of dollars
because they are quite expensive.
But this one, although it is expensive
it is not that bad and it's definitely the leader
in performance on the SSD market.
Now you will notice that is just a regular old SATA interface,
regular old SATA plug there for your power supply.
Doesn't take anything special to use.
It is 2.5 inch form factor, so you will have to
kind of stick it in a little 2.5 to 3.5 inch conversion case
or you can just leave them loose in your case.
It doesn't really matter because they are shock proof.
It's not really a big deal if you drop them or shake them
or get them really cold or hot.
It doesn't really matter. These things will operate
in almost any temperature in any conditions.
That's why they're so great. They're so reliable,
1.5 million hours mean time between failures.
Now, let's talk a little bit about the internals
of this drive and what makes it really good.
First of all there is no JMicron 602 controller in here
which has given some people certain problems
even though they made revisions to it, they made it better.
This actually has a Samsung controller
and this does have 16 megabytes of on board cache
using a Samsung chip for cache. So that's pretty good.
16 megabytes is a good amount.
That's as much as some of the 250 and 500 gigabyte hard drives
come with so 16 megabytes is definitely enough.
And with that combination of technology
what are they giving you?
Well let's talk about the benchmarks real quick.
This is using a Vista 64 bit system.
Core i7, ICH10R South Bridge chip set.
One drive, no operating system on it
using HD Tune pro doing the regular old benchmark.
Check these out, so these are sequential read speeds,
I'm going to give you minimum, maximum and average
and the same thing for write.
Now mininum, minimum, minimum read speed.
This is where it gets good.
They'll always have these like low write,
low minimum write and low minimum read.
220 megabytes per second minimum read speed
which is extremely fast.
227 megabytes maximum read speed.
So that means that there is no stuttering.
That's a flat line of performance all the way across.
It means it's going to be extremely responsive,
no stuttering, no lag, nothing. So that's very very impressive.
Now write speeds were also very expensive,
I'm sorry, impressive and responsive.
No lagging again, no stuttering up and down on your chart.
You're just going to see a straight line all the way across.
71.4 megabytes per second minimum,
80 megabytes per second maximum,
79 megabytes per second average
and I was doing these on maximum accuracy
so they were taking three minutes to run each test
on HD Tune Pro and those are great.
Now 0.1 ms access time and 3% CPU utilization
are also very very good and overall that makes this
the fastest solid state drive on the market
that I have ever tested.
And that makes it really hard to give back.
I almost want to say that this video never happened
so that I just don't have to return it
but I'm going to have to return it anyway.
Again this is the Kingston 80 gigabyte solid state drive.
In reality it's an Intel X25-M solid state drive.
They're the same thing, they just put a little sticker
over it right there and as you can see
it says Intel and Intel. So awesome product,
if you can afford it I definitely recommend it.
If you any questions on it email me.
See you guys next time.
For more information on the Kingston 80 gigabyte SSD
type in K24-9632 into the search engine
of any of these major retailers.
For ComputerTV, I'm Albert.
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