Unboxing the SSD’s

After a long day at school and work, I came home and awaiting me were the Kingston SSD’s.  I decided to put together a quick unboxing of them:

Here they are in all their glory.  Kingston sent three drives for us to test out.  Here’s a close up of one of them:

 

This kit is the desktop kit, which includes the drive, 2 brackets for mounting screws, SATA power and data cables, and software to clone your drive.  The notebook upgrade kit comes with the drive, an enclosure case (nifty!) and the software as well.

Now lets open it up:

Within the box the cd, drive and cables are packaged very nicely within a sturdy plastic container.  Opening this up and taking out the cd the drive, cables and brackets are revealed:

I took out the drive, as was very surprised as to how light the whole thing was (especially compared to the SCSI drive that came today as well)! 

I took out the contents and here’s the result:

Well that’s about it.  Up next I’ll be testing the drives and comparing them to HDD’s.  Some testing will include:

• Testing a singe drive vs. two in a RAID0 array
• Cloning my netbook drive onto one of the drive and testing differences in performance
• Boot time between a HDD and a SSD (and maybe even a 15000 rpm SCSI drive)
• and many more.

Check out the Super User Blog for more detail testing!

Also right now there’s a great deal for these exact drive: 128 gb for only $125!.