The 64GB model we have costs $2.56 per gigabyte with atotal price of about $164.
This tiny drive packs eight 8GB NAND flash chips for a total capacity of 64GB.
Unlike SandForce-based drives however, the SSDNow V+180 can effectively use the full capacity for user storage.
The SandForce SF-1200 controller does this because it doesn’t incorporate a cache buffer.
The SSDNow V+180 Series is rated for a read throughput of 230MB/s and a write performance of 180MB/s.
This is more conservative than the ~1.5 million hours most manufacturers label their SSDs with.
Kingston claims that the drive will withstand 1500G shock resistance, the standard amongst SSDs.
Like all SSD-based products, the SSDNow V+180 drives are very conservative when it comes to power consumption.
At idle all three models use less than 0.5 watts and when active consume just 2.9 watts.
The drives support RAID and are backed by a limited 3-year warranty.
