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In 4 1. I would buy two but I only need one. This is a really great SSD. Syncrhonous Intel NAND, high transfer rate, good reviews, recommended by storagereview. There's a pretty decent review of the 240GB model of this drive on storagereview. Check it out and those who didn't buy, I guess wait for the next deal. I think this is definitely the one to get. My older Kingston works GREAT and it is running low on space all the time so I'm going to move all the games off of it onto this and keep booting off the old one. It is fast enough. This one is going to blaze through custom maps and such in games. Really cool.
kuelllin
Member
posted: May. 23, 2012 @ 12:55p
Would you please show me how to tell if an SSD is Synchronous or Asynchronous. And how does it matter with the synchronous feature? Thanks a lot.
although it is the 240gb version it uses the same NAND. Sync NAND tends to allow for higher IOPS which basically minimizes lag.
kuelllin said: Would you please show me how to tell if an SSD is Synchronous or Asynchronous. And how does it matter with the synchronous feature? Thanks a lot.
Intel NAND synchronous SSD for all !
us
Senior Member - 2K
posted: May. 23, 2012 @ 5:38p
FYI - put one of these in an old Dell D630 and the thing blue screens and kingston said there's no firmware update to fix the issue. They said it might be a bad drive but who knows. First kingston ssd I've purchased and I guess I'll be going back to corsair/ocz.
rendition
Senior Member - 1K
posted: May. 23, 2012 @ 9:32p
Are you sure it isn't the laptop? The D630 is a Latitude and I have seen deals on refurbished ones on this board too. We have them at work and I don't think anyone uses them any more. That is like a 4 or 5 year old laptop.
If the drive is bad why not RMA it?
us said: FYI - put one of these in an old Dell D630 and the thing blue screens and kingston said there's no firmware update to fix the issue. They said it might be a bad drive but who knows. First kingston ssd I've purchased and I guess I'll be going back to corsair/ocz.
VirtuaL
Senior Member - 2K
posted: May. 23, 2012 @ 9:39p
I remember reading about some SATA6G SSDs having compatibility problems with laptops that have SATA1 (1.5G). Perhaps that is your problem. Or perhaps it's just a "Sandforce bug" (they're still in there). Or perhaps the drive is just bad.
kdbrich
Senior Member
posted: May. 23, 2012 @ 10:03p
I need to get a hard drive for my laptop...and figure SSD is the way to go. I really don't know much about it. Can someone tell me what I need to look for? Do I buy any SSD? Is there a difference between laptop and desktop?
tjonbot
Senior Member
posted: May. 23, 2012 @ 10:18p
So three steps to get the deal working.
us
Senior Member - 2K
posted: May. 24, 2012 @ 2:02a
amptor said: Are you sure it isn't the laptop? The D630 is a Latitude and I have seen deals on refurbished ones on this board too. We have them at work and I don't think anyone uses them any more. That is like a 4 or 5 year old laptop.
If the drive is bad why not RMA it?
us said: FYI - put one of these in an old Dell D630 and the thing blue screens and kingston said there's no firmware update to fix the issue. They said it might be a bad drive but who knows. First kingston ssd I've purchased and I guess I'll be going back to corsair/ocz.
They say it's bad so we'll see when I get the unit back. And yes I know it's an old machine but some companies aren't swapping laptops in this economy. But regardless, just giving my experience with this drive. The laptop is coming back to me tomorrow to diagnose.
rendition
Senior Member - 1K
posted: May. 26, 2012 @ 9:50p
I got mine, installed it worked at 120mb/s so then I found out that my main board is kinda antiquated and nvidia did a poor job on their sata controller (this is sata II). I installed microsoft sata controller drivers and now I'm getting 225mb/sec (again, this is a sata II controller not sata III). Over all I'm happy after I got it working.
This drive should give the full 555MB/s with a proper onboard or very expensive (LSI controller card ranges from $500-$600) sata 3 controller.
I've been playing some games from it and it is very speedy. If I ever decide to upgrade to that ivy bridge, I'll be set for the sata 3 I'm sure.
rendition
Senior Member - 1K
posted: May. 26, 2012 @ 9:53p
well I had problems with my drive freezing after I moved it to my nvidia controller. your laptop should have an intel controller inside. I'd suggest making sure you are using the latest intel sata drivers and hopefully you are not using windows vista (I have had issues with vista update and their sata drivers for my Dell laptop which probably has basically the same chipset inside it as your D630, but it isn't a heavily used laptop). I switched to windows 7 and haven't had a problem since (if you don't account for hardware failures from various hard drives I've had to swap into it even though it was lightly used). Maybe there is something technically wrong inside these laptops I dunno. I bought an HP since with an i7 and it runs great. No more Dell junk for me.
us said: amptor said: Are you sure it isn't the laptop? The D630 is a Latitude and I have seen deals on refurbished ones on this board too. We have them at work and I don't think anyone uses them any more. That is like a 4 or 5 year old laptop.
If the drive is bad why not RMA it?
us said: FYI - put one of these in an old Dell D630 and the thing blue screens and kingston said there's no firmware update to fix the issue. They said it might be a bad drive but who knows. First kingston ssd I've purchased and I guess I'll be going back to corsair/ocz.
They say it's bad so we'll see when I get the unit back. And yes I know it's an old machine but some companies aren't swapping laptops in this economy. But regardless, just giving my experience with this drive. The laptop is coming back to me tomorrow to diagnose.
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