What about Kingston SSDs?

[piwi]

Hello all,

I am looking at two drives for my MBP. Either the 80GB Intel http://u.nu/3igv9 (newegg.ca) or the Kingston 128GB http://u.nu/5hgv9 (Canada Computers).
I know Intel's are very good wares but what about this particular Kingston? I can't read any test of it vs the G2 Intel...
What do you guys think? I could really use the extra 48GB (!!!) but is performance badly affected?

Thanks!

--edit: according to this: http://u.nu/9dsw9 the SSD I'm interested in is a JMicron. Not a good choice from what I read, right?
--edit²: See http://u.nu/54bz9 for more details about Kensington's SSD vs Intel's SSD

 

[silencer88]

My roommate has one. He installed it in January and absolutely loves it. It beats the pants off my 40 gig intel x-25v. Both drives load osx quickly and most applications open on the first bounce.

 

[piwi]

My roommate has one. He installed it in January and absolutely loves it. It beats the pants off my 40 gig intel x-25v. Both drives load osx quickly and most applications open on the first bounce.

Well, I don't know, it says that it's a JMicron controller and last I heard they suck big times with used disks but I can't find any proper Kingston vs Intel test... And nobody seems to have any Kingston in their machines.

 

[Jaro65]

I have Kingston SSDNow V+ in mine. The first one failed within a couple of weeks for whatever reason, but Newegg promptly replaced it. The drives have a 3-year warranty, which is very nice. Attached are the Xbench test results for my old Seagate 7200 RPM drive and the Kingston V+ SSD.

 

[piwi]

I have Kingston SSDNow V+ in mine. The first one failed within a couple of weeks for whatever reason, but Newegg promptly replaced it. The drives have a 3-year warranty, which is very nice. Attached are the Xbench test results for my old Seagate 7200 RPM drive and the Kingston V+ SSD.

Wow nice, is that a 512GB drive?
However, I think V+ and V drives aren't the same, right? I can't afford more than the price of the 128GB that's around 265$...

 

[piwi]

I took the intel 80Gb + 500Gb in the optibay route

 

[Jaro65]

^^^^^
That's a good setup! An Intel G2 drive is most definitely a better choice than Kingston V series. The V+ series is better than V series, but still, an Intel G2 drive is as trouble-free as you can get.

 

[piwi]

Can't wait to receive all of this now
One bit comes from Newegg, wherever their Canadian warehouse is, the other bit comes from Hong Kong. Oh boy, how did they do before planes existed

 

[piwi]

Out of interest, I found a chart for the Kensington VS Intel.

The X25-M's score is about 2 times superior to the Kensington's. I know benchmarks don't give the most accurate real-life performances but it still can help to chose between the two.
The Kensington also has a 50% better score than my current WD 5400RPM when the Intel has a 3 fold better score.

http://u.nu/5uaz9