Kingston already has itself a range of solid state drives (SSDs) in the form of its value-orientated SSDNow V series. However, other than its rebranded Intel drives, it hasn't offered a line of ultra-speedy SSDs of its own... until now.
Hoping to compete in the increasingly-popular high-speed SSD market, Kingston has launched its SSDNow V+ series, with the added plus denoting a notable bump in performance.
The drive, launched in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB, offers far-greater performance than any existing Kingston drive - with the 256GB option quoting sequential read and write speeds of up to 220MB/s and 180MB/s, respectively.
Kingston's internal benchmarks list performance for each drive as follows:
| Capacity | Sequential Read Throughput | Sequential Write Throughput | IOPS (Random 4K read) | IOPS (Random 4K write) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64GB | 220MB/s | 140MB/s | 6,300 IOPS | 84 IOPS |
| 128GB | 220MB/s | 170MB/s | 6,300 IOPS | 158 IOPS |
| 256GB | 220MB/s | 180MB/s | 6,300 IOPS | 291 IOPS |
Decent-looking figures, on paper at least, and the 64GB drive (model number SNV225-S2/64GB) is available now with an MSRP of £129. The larger 128GB and 256GB drives are expected to reach Europe in September, but pricing is yet to be confirmed.
