TestFreaks posted a review on the Kingston SSDNow V200 128gb SSD Desktop Upgrade Kit
Kingston SSDNow V200 128gb SSD Desktop Upgrade Kit Review
Kingston’s latest SSD release is the SSDNow V200 that is aimed at the cost-conscious, performance-minded user. Offered as a desktop or laptop bundle the SSDNow V200 includes cloning software and a DVD with step-by-step installation video.
The SSDNow V200 uses a JMicron 668 Controller with Toshiba 24nm 3K P/E Cycle MLC NAND. While not the acclaimed Sandforce controller, the JMicron 668 does help the SSDNow V200 run at advertised read speeds between 260 and 300 MB/s using SATA 3.0 and write speeds of 100 to 230 MB/s depending on the drive capacity. The larger SSDs seem to have the faster speeds.
Initially when this SSD hit the market a firmware issue hampered its performance. This has since been resolved with a firmware upgrade and now all seems well with the SSDNow V200 drives. In fact the random read and write IOPS performance have improved with the write IOPS increasing 136% and 129% for the 128GB while read IOPS increased 22% for the 64GB and 5% for the 128GB. Currently the most recent versions of these drives will already have the faster firmware preinstalled.
Kingston SSDNow V200 128gb SSD Desktop Upgrade Kit Review