Kingston SSDNow V100 128Gb opinions plz

have a some BestBuy gift cards and with some cash was thinking about getting the Kingston SSDNow V100 128Gb desktop bundle ($190 after 10% off coupon).
Not looking for the ultimate, just a decent SSD for loading Win7 x64 and a couple games. Reviews seem Ok, was wondering if anyone has used these drives?

Sam

 

To answer you question, its no Intel X25 but it will just beat a Raptor hard drive. Using the 64GB version myself just for windows and 1-2 games at the time, quite pleased after doing general tweaks to it. Fast windows boot and general application use. Good value for money, I would give it 7/10

 

As I was getting ready to order it I got an email from newegg.com with a bunch of discount promo codes, one of which was for 20% off any SSD. Ended up ordering a OCZ Agility2 120Gb 3.5" formfactor SSD. For $169 not a bad $/Gb for a Sandforce controller drive.

Sam

 

Should be near in performance with the V100 series...

Select high performance power plan
Disable Indexing
Enable Write Caching
Disable Defrag
Disable System Restore (Personal preference)
Disable Superfetch
Disable Prefetch

To enable TRIM

Start, type cmd, run as administrator
type

fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0

To check if it's enabled:

fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify

Results should be as follows

DisableDeleteNotify = 1 (disabled)
DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (enabled)

Enjoy awesomeness

 

Some background info on one of bailmeout's raised points.

"Disable Defrag"
Google links to defrag ssd drive

http://www.google.com/search?q=defrag+ssd+drive&hl=en&num=10&lr=&ft=i&cr=&safe=images&tbs=

One link, why is defragmenting bad for ssds?
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/246462-32-defragmenting-ssds

Bazza

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This link to Tweaktown's SSD page has some good info: http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/3116/tweaktown_s_solid_state_drive_optimization_guide/index.html.

I was going to go for the Vertex2 model but read a lot of posts on OCZ's forum about a lot of issues with those over the past few months, didn't find more than a couple posts on the Agility2's.

Sam