Kingston preps 40GB SSD for system booting
updated 11:55 am EDT, Mon October 26, 2009
Kingston SSD Now V 40GB meant for OS
Kingston today catered to a specific segment of the storage crowd with the SSDNow V 40GB Boot Drive. The 2.5-inch SATA drive isn't intended as primary storage but rather as a system drive that speeds up the operating system as well as key apps. It's billed as inexpensive enough that it can be mated with a second, much larger rotating hard drive that would handle less critical apps and storage.
While not fast compared to some SSDs with a peak 170MB per second read speed and 40MB per second for writes, the raw speed is enough to be almost four times faster in synthetic tests than a conventional drive.
The new SSDNow V update ships November 9th and will be available both in a $115 barebones version, for notebooks or those with the necessary adapters, as well as in a $130 kit that provides a 3.5-inch mounting bracket and extenders to attach a mainboard's power and SATA cables.
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Not very useful to the Mac community, unless you decide to unhook your optical drive. But it could help alot in laptops with preserving battery life, as the OS side of things wouldn't be wasting spins on your main HD.