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This kit was installed in a Dell Latitude E6400, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHZ, 4GB RAM (upgraded to 8GB a couple of months before this upgrade) and Windows 7-64 that originally shipped with a 160GB drive. This upgrade was an exercise in simplicity:
1. Plugged the new drive into the supplied enclosure, plugged into USB 2, popped in the CD with the ghosting tool and rebooted the laptop.
2. The ghosting tool boots with a graphical application that allows you to pick the source and target drives.
3. Once set to run, it took about 43 minutes to move about 70 GB between my laptop's drive and the new drive connected through USB2.
4. Once the ghost was completed, all left to do was shut down the machine, swap the drives and reboot. For this particular laptop a drive swap involves two phillips screws to allow the drive to slide out, and an extra screw that holds the plastic fascia in place. I don't think I spent five minutes in this step.
5. The first boot up was slow because the laptop ran a hardware check on the new drive. All other boots since have been really fast.
My Windows experience score for hard disk speed went up from 5.9 to 7.0. My machine feels much faster than when I purchased it one year ago. All programs that I use a lot load instantly. My reboot speed experience is in line with most of the other reviews so far, basically I reboot it and before I know the machine is ready for a login. I login and it takes seconds to go through all of the start up items.
In my very subjective opinion, I feel like I got a much better improvement from getting this SSD than from bumping the machine from 4GB to 8GB. I will definitely pick up a second unit for my wife's laptop.
Issues:
1. At least one of my applications requires a key that is built from unique IDs of some hardware items, so I had to regenerate the key. The good news is that the application didn't have trouble regenerating the key, and it did not force me to purchase a new license.
2. The ghosting was not 100% accurate as far as the partitions went, which flipped the dirty flag for the drive. I had to boot the machine with a Windows 7 rescue CD so it could do a checkdisk, which fixed the issue. The machine was never unstable, it just kept trying to do a checkdisk during reboots and it would fail. Using the rescue CD allows Windows to treat that drive as a non-boot drive during the checkdisk, which worked better for my particular situation.
That's it, just those two issues. Everything else has been perfect.
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Product Description
Kingston technology’s ssdnow v+100 solid-state drive dramatically improves performance with impressive speeds. it makes any user more productive by speeding up boot times and application loads while removing hard drive crashes and other drive failures. ssdnow v+100 is ideal for demanding corporate environments and for system builders and integrators. it uses a standard sata interface but unlike a regular hard drive, it’s built with no moving parts. it provides durability and reliability to meet the needs of professionals in the office or on the road. business travelers in any industry will appreciate its performance gains, as will medical professionals, software developers, video editors, designers, it workers and law enforcement officials. ssdnow v+100 features an independent garbage collection functionthat maintains a system at optimum performance level. this is especially important for systems running on windows xp, which doesn’t feature trim, and it will also help organizations extend the software cycle on their systems, delaying upgrades of operating systems and compatible applications. ssdnow is backed by a three-year warranty, live 24/7 tech support and legendary kingston reliability.
Product Details
- Size: 64 GB
- Brand: Kingston
- Model: SVP100S2B/64GR
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x 6.40" w x 2.00" l, .28 pounds
- Hard Disk: 64GB
Features
- 230MB/sec read and 180MB/sec write speeds
- SATA 1.5GB/sec and 3.0GB/sec interfaces
- Faster boot times and application loads than hard drives
- No moving mechanical parts gives it longer life and ability to handle rougher conditions
- Backed by Kingstons three year warranty and 24/7 tech support
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