Kingston 40GB V Series Boot Drive SSD Review

[Apoptosis]

That's the date of the Newegg ShellShocker... The Drive should launch today though...

[Apoptosis]

Newegg has it up, but it is listed at $129.99 and no rebate is showing up... WTF

On top of that it says "limit 1 per customer" WTF

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820139081

[FZ1]

I guess they have short supply and are expecting significant demand. Oh well.

[Apoptosis]

OOS ETA:11/11/2009

[DL126]

Newegg has it up, but it is listed at $129.99 and no rebate is showing up... WTF

On top of that it says "limit 1 per customer" WTF

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820139081

Looks like they've jumped the price a bit as well!
I got an order confirmation from TD ... the ones I ordered were $105.25 each.

[Apoptosis]

It appears the special $85 price is being done this wed as the Newegg Shell Shocker...

Not sure why Kingston told everyone it would be $85 on launch day, but hey in the long run it is only a 2 day wait.

[stopthekilling77]

Very tempted to do this :D

[Digital Puppy]

Just ordered two from Newegg at $105 a piece.

At 12-midnight PST, Newegg made them available and changed the pricing from $119 to the "Shell Shocker Deal". The $20 rebate coupon is good for 2 drives purchased from Newegg only, so $85/piece plus tax. Not bad.

Had to do two separate transactions to grab two of the drives though...Free shipping on both orders though. Should have them by Friday since Newegg's warehouse is down the street!

[Apoptosis]

well, it's 6am CST and they are sold out...

oh well

[XstollieX]

Damn new I should have stayed up last night!

[Digital Puppy]

00:01 PST 11/12/09: And now Newegg has them now listed at $129 before $20 MIR. They are still out of stock, but their prices just changed.

[Digital Puppy]

Gotta love Newegg's fast delivery!

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[Digital Puppy]

Newegg is now showing out of stock/sold out until 11/27/2009.

Lowest price I see on the net today is from ValleySeek (?) at $97.

[soltari]

Nice review.. but guess what i noticed when i picked mine up yesterday.. just in stock again.
And on both the box and on hdtune pro's info .. firmware version 2CV102HA Trim support is here already.

[Digital Puppy]

For anyone who purchased one of these from Newegg when it first launched, I got my $20 rebate in the mail today.

Took 2 months to get the rebate. Not bad!

[pocris]

With the launch 30 GB TRiM enabled V series just launched, seems like Kingston is doing the same as Intel: no TRIM will be available for the "obsolete" 40 GB V Series.

This is the e-mail I got from KIngston technical support:

" We do not and will not have firmware update that support TRIM for the V+ and V series, however, something might come out in Q2 for the SSD V40 (Your drive) which is Intel based. Unfortunately, as the drive is Intel based we need to wait for them to release the update for it "

B.....rds!

[Apoptosis]

All intel on this one... They are holding the goods and not letting Kingston run TRIM.

[Digital Puppy]

All intel on this one... They are holding the goods and not letting Kingston run TRIM.

...which is why some of us are running 2 in RAID-0 configuration.