Kingston 120GB UV400 SSDNow 2.5" SATA III Solid State Drive SSD SUV400S37/120G
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120GB — up to 550MB/s Read and 350MB/s Write
240GB — up to 550MB/s Read and 490MB/s Write
480GB — up to 550MB/s Read and 500MB/s Write
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Coming from an IT background, this would be more than suitable for this.
we only do emailing and basic stuff on there anyway.
The only advantages I see are shock resistance and general speed improvement when opening apps and system start-up & shut down. Probably not needed for a stationary office machine that is not heavily reliant on hard drive work, I reckon. SSDs still have extremely low bang-for-buck ($-per-gigabyte) compared to spinning-platter drives.
Although on a productivity point of view, the faster you can get you employees replying to emails etc. the more money they have the potential to make. Therefore over time the "bang for buck" would move in favour of the SSD.
answering emails is not bottlenecked by hard drive speeds; the productivity gains would be insignificant
You forget the time it takes to turn the computer on… let's say it takes a spin drive 1.25 minutes to boot windows vs 15s. Thats 5 minutes per week. Given the average working Australian gets 4 weeks holiday per year, that leaves 48 weeks of working weeks, which gives you 240 minutes of increased working potential per year (4 hours).
So… it still stands half a days work per year year increased efficiency gives ssd the better bang for buck over time and i haven't even factored in power consumption and other things
@TheGMan:
It looks good on paper but I don't think it translates to reality well. The truth is people sit idle a lot of the time and those 'losses' are all part of the job. Nobody is going to use the saved time up completely with work. I just don't see it translating to reality well.
If you were churning away at that hard drive constantly, doing heavy stuff, and waiting was a really noticeable thing with typical use, then I could see a case for it. If I were buying for my employees, I wouldn't dream of an SSD for a non-mobile workstation.
A typical spinning-platter hard drive can give you several times more storage for the same outlay (good for busy inboxes and other stuff). Power consumption might be a factor though. Especially with lots of machines. But again probably getting into the 'splitting hairs' realm for most people I think.
@cheepwun: Time to boot, open a browser, or outlook, loading attachments, copying files, all officy things are hugely improved by an SSD. It's not just about max speed, its about latency, how quickly it reacts.
Outlook is HUGELY improved with an ssd. Scrolling through your inbox on a HDD, every single click feels like an eon compared to an SSD.
Once you go SSD you'll never go back, and the best bang for the buck performance increase you can ever get on a PC.
@Gmetal:
I've used them & know that they work faster. I just don't think it's a huge bottleneck whereby you can say you've gained much productivity. They are smallish gains here and there. I still don't think it's worthwhile buying one for basics where you aren't heavily HDD-constrained. Perhaps video editing or something else is more suitable.
I just looked up the Seagate website for 2.5 inch hard drive power consumption. They are on par, though Seagate don't typically give Write power consumption for regular HDDs like Kingston does with SSD. Not a significant thing thing to consider here.
3.5 inch (regular) drives do draw a fair bit more power compared to 'laptop' 2.5 inchers though (both HDD and SSD).
@TheGMan: I can't believe how much time is lost because of poor IT equipment. The laptop I was provided for my old job was pretty average (not bad in comparison to other places) but a small investment to give people 8GB of memory and an SSD would give you huge results. So much time wasted from waiting while the drive chugs away or waiting for applications to boot up. Plus people get distracted and forget what they were doing if it isn't instant.
This could not be anymore correct.
The time spent opening word/outlook & opening times very depending on pc performance, also keep in mind that mechanical hdd's have to be defragged to keep them working correctly , mechanical drives do bottleneck and ssd's improve performance majorly.
Such as outlook creating a large ost/pst file , with an SSD it can load and operate alot faster, and also with web browsing can improve the performance of the browser operation time, but will not improve the speed of the net, although it will seem abit faster.
When you are looking at time to money aspect, the SSD does win in a large company based on time per job completed & quota's that have to be met.
@Avacardooo Rayy Mee: Windows defrags hard drives automatically since Windows 8 so it isn't something you have to do any more.
@Avacardooo Rayy Mee: I get everything everyone has said above.
But the benefit:cost is like 10:1 even just for removal of frustration, excuses, and reasons to find something else to do other than work. People hating computers/computing is a real thing. The cost of that is massive. Extra & extended coffee/toilet/chitchat/anything breaks. 30min derailing every day is a VERY conservative guess for us. And 10x more for getting blue collar etc workers onto them.
I'll spend $5k on a machine, if need be. Pays for itself in months.
Other things we have to take into consideration is windows updates, rolling them out over the network is alot faster with installing , yet there are times where i have to do fix's and i have only 30minutes to do them , so the fact that i can restart the PC in no time, is a benefit to my time and theirs.
Yes i do understand that workers slack off, yet nobody wants a slow PC, so any way to improve it is good.
Personally i had a whole department complaining about slowness, i upgraded them all to SSD's, i now hear nothing now regarding performance.
@Avacardooo Rayy Mee: I'm in complete agreement. Personally, i think your points are conservative. There are many more benefits. I think people need blinkers to disagree.
@Utopian:
Perhaps you can list some of these "many more" benefits.
And you guys all ignore what hundreds of gigabytes of additional storage can do for users in a multitude of situations. I'd still rather go spinning platter for checking emails. I've yet to be sold by the discussions here, and I have had extensive time behind SSD machines. It's just not worth it for basic usage. At least that's what my wallet's saying.
We can all agree SSDs are nicer, speed-wise. I have yet to be sold on the 'massive' productivity gains.
@Avacardooo Rayy Mee: SSD makes so much difference it should be considered "mandatory" as a system disk by pretty much all users.
If your network is AD based, then you will have local storage on the servers, so it wont matter on HDD space.
If your PC is running standalone with a Mechanical drive as a basic user then that is okay, but for business use, your important data should not be stored on the PC at all, all data should be backed up to a cloud/NAS environment.
That being said, size is not what matters at this case but speed is, but we could also say that you can buy a 1tb ssd, and you can buy a 1tb mechanical drive, the only argument you have in defense is cost.
@cheepwun:
we dont need massive amounts of gigabytes. we just have Microsoft Office documents mainly.
if i do put the SSD in them then the drive they are using now will then be used for any excess documents if the SSD was to be filled up which i would say is highly unlikely.
but im thinking that if i put an SSD in all the computers then im going to have to install windows on all of them, something i really dont want to think about so i might pass on it, still an amazing deal.
You dont have to install, more like IMAGE/GHOST the old drive to the new.
Norton Ghost or Acronis can do this.
@cheepwun: Not here to "sell" you anything. We're not in forums. Hundreds of gigs of slow spinning rust comes at a large cost to productivity, in many situations. And the vast majority is empty. Our users need 100GB tops. Business owners need 200GB tops. Even then, it's copious amounts of decade-old crap.
For anyone looking at productivity & and continual improvement, a dirt cheap SSD like this is a no-brainer.
Not here to "sell" you anything.
Figuratively-speaking of course. Not to be taken literally.
For anyone looking at productivity & and continual improvement, a dirt cheap SSD like this is a no-brainer.
I think it's only a no-brainer if storage doesn't come into play & heavy hard drive use does. Because you are getting far less storage per dollar. Yes, some people don't use the extra storage, I get that.
I think it's far from an automatic 'no-brainer' decision. I think it's a waste of funds in most cases, but would be a 'good' choice if extra storage isn't a concern. The productivity gains would be very minimal in most usage scenarios, unless really used in a speed-constrained 'hard-drive-constantly-thrashing' situation. Mechanical hard drives are hardly slow on a half-decent system that isn't crawling with 200 background processes that needn't be running.
Anyway, we disagree. That's fine.
In my opinion, SSD's are the best bang for buck upgrade; mechanical hard drives have long been the bottleneck, typical OS's use swapfiles or swapspace on the hard drives also
Thanks for the comment, i already had someone PM me regarding this, was just adding it to the description.
Are these any good compared to the 850 EVO? Can't seem to find any reviews.
Thanks!
Not really a bargain…
EYO selling this for $49.50!
http://www.eyo.com.au/536279_kingston-120gb-2-5-ssd-suv400-u…
FYI, The price is cheaper and this also includes postage.
yeah $2 cheaper.
So when does this deal end?
More then $2 cheaper, if you go to EYO and add postage, you will find the real savings.
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These drives might not be affected but I'm personally gonna avoid Kingston because of the bait and switch scam from a couple years back.
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/284k11/kingston_a…
Would this work on Dell XPS L501x machine? Looking to get my old laptop running with a SSD hard drive.
Yes you can, the HDD that is in it , is inside the PC on the bottom left. you might first need to know how to pull the laptop apart to fit it, also you will need to either GHOST(COPY) windows to the SSD or install a fresh.
In easyier language. (YES IT WILL WORK, BUT REQUIRES KNOWLEDGE ON PULLING IT APART)
Thanks mate. I have already done the dismantling part. Just need to replace the HDD now ! :)
Dang! If only there was some way I could get this in conjunction with that groupon eBay voucher from last month
This SSD appears to come with the USB case. Sandisk and Samsung doesnt provide this accessory. Upvote just for this alone!
Edit: Woops, saw the wrong part number. This one does not come with case. But still good deal.
See that man with the top of his head cut off? That's Kingston that is.
How suitable would this be for a cheapo usb 3 SSD drive if it was combined with an enclosure?
For comparison Samsung T1 Portable 240GB SSD is $195
Personally i have not used a portable SSD drive , although i woudlnt see it as that great, when you could basicly get a standard USB with the same capability's.
Write/Read speeds may very and also on what files and programs copying data with.
Wow. At this price, SSD is cheaper than MicroSD card of a lesser size.
I have a ASUS N550 laptop which comes with a believe it or not 1TB 5400 rpm drive. Wondering which of these will be a good fit.
Get a 480GB
Between Kingston and Samsung 850 500gb V Nand for $180?
Check the read/write speed.
480GB — up to 550MB/s Read and 500MB/s Write on the 480GB Kingston
500FV Samsung - Up to 540 MB/sec Sequential Read /Up to 520 MB/sec Sequential Write
Honestly you wont notice a difference between the two, more on personal choice, but Kingston is a good brand, i would still go the 480GB as in a laptop , you can only go as fast as everything else in it also.
@Avacardooo Rayy Mee: Went for the Samsung 850 Evo with 3D Nand tech purely because of online reviews which were comprehensively in favor of the Samsung. I do not want SSD to be a bottleneck. My laptop has a Quad Core i7 4710HQ and 16 GB of RAM.
Thanks for your help :)
Yeah, they are definently better overall, just price is the only thing i was looking at near the end.
I personally use samsung for my OS & OCZ for my games drive.
Yes it will.
But will require a fresh install or a re-image of the windows to the new drive.
oooh dang these are cheap.
im really tempted to get 3 of these for the office computers.
we only do emailing and basic stuff on there anyway.