 I've got another Kingston unboxing to do I unboxed their SSD now V series notebook upgrade kit drive very recently and Now I have the SSD now V plus series 128 gigabyte performance upgrade kit so this is intended for a desktop computer whereas this one is intended for a notebook computer So there are some key differences first of all the V plus series is slightly faster as the plus would indicate and Next of all it includes slightly different accessories so rather than including say for example an external hard drive enclosure and Cloning software the desktop performance upgrade Drive includes I don't know Actually, we're about to find out what it includes. Oh, it doesn't include an enclosure Oh, and it doesn't include cloning software Wow so it actually just includes more it also includes a three two and a half to three and a half inch hard drive mounting adapter bracket It includes the USB cable that you'll need for the enclosure it includes a SATA cable Which you will need to install the new SSD in your system unless you're replacing an SSD or rather a SATA drive And then you've got the Kingston enclosure, which is just a simple simple external USB so you just kind of throw your drive in there, and then you close it up and You slide that on there. Yeah, you'll lock it up And then you've got just a basic USB 2.0 external hard drive enclosure So if you're upgrading well if you are upgrading a laptop you can throw your old drive in here and use it as a storage drive and then leave the SSD in your laptop because there's no reason you couldn't use this in a laptop too now the main advantages of an SSD that Kingston has asked me to mention are the silence the reliability and the performance I mean does it is there really anything else yeah the capacities aren't as big as a Typical two and a half inch hard drive which is available in up to about 500 gigs these days But I mean at 128 gigs you've got enough space to store pretty much whatever you'd need and it's much much Faster like an SSD just smokes even any desktop drive even in a raid configuration Because it's all about the little bits of data that you're accessing frequently That's why they're so useful as an OS drive because whenever you do anything. It's gonna be much snappier I actually did a long convoluted video on SSD versus hard drive if you put SSD space VS space HDD into the YouTube search It should bring up my video under my NCIX calm channel pretty pretty high up And I show real world an SSD versus a hard drive, and it just flies So this is like I said their vplus series actually why don't we have a quick look at? What kind of specs we've got on this particular drive? No, they're not gonna. Let me cheat they have nothing on the box You know what why don't we find out in real time the actual difference between the SSD? Now v series and the SSD now v plus series will site and we'll just Key them in and find out what the difference is so Kingston dot com Okay today, we're gonna be learning how to do important product research Okay, so you can see there's the e series so that's basically irrelevant these days This is the old based on the Intel x25e Then you got the m series which is based on the Intel x25m and then the v and v plus series These are both using Toshiba controllers as I recall so why don't we have a look at the v series first? So you got the data sheet here and? What is it going to tell us about it? Wow? My scroll wheel is not working okay here. We go so the sequential speed on the 128 gig is 200 megabytes per second read and 160 megabytes per second right do they have any random? Oh, this is kind of a neat They give you the PC mark hard drive hard drive score from 2005 so it looks like the 64 gig is the best controller is the best performer out of these The v series drives, so why don't we have a look at the v plus series drive? So you've got slightly higher sequential read as well as slightly higher sequential right that's actually very impressive for rights And then you've actually got dramatically higher performance this I was not aware of so it looks like the v plus is pretty much the Way to go if you are looking for the maximum performance whereas the v is more of a value-oriented drive Why don't we have a look at what these two drives actually cost on NCIX I? Get a lot of questions about this where I work. I work at NCIX. It's a computer store in Canada, so Kingston 128 gigabyte all right, let's see what we bring up so we've got the v series Gen 2 128 gig So that is at $249.99 and then the v plus 128 gig so you're paying almost an extra hundred bucks for that performance But if you're looking for the maximum possible Well performance, then you're gonna want to go with the plus series drive And if you're not then you're gonna want to go with the regular v series drive So I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say and why don't I just sort of briefly show you the difference in the? In the package for the notebook upgrade kit versus the desktop kit, so you've got the same enclosure You've got the same cloning software and the cloning software is intended for you to easily take either a desktop or laptop hard drive So they've included a SATA cable as well as their their little basic two and a half inch enclosure You clone all of your data over to the SSD drive, and then just swap it in you don't even have to reformat your OS So this well this is weird this one comes with a SATA power cable and this one comes with a SATA data cable, I guess the Assumption I don't know what the assumption is here, but they both got the USB cable They both come with a hard drive and it looks like there's no hard drive in here anymore. I must have done something with it Maybe I left it in here Okay, that almost freaked me out there, but yeah, it's just in there. So here's the v series drive Next to the v plus series drive and They look pretty much the same all the differences are going to be under the hood Although this one has a black label the v plus so that probably means it goes faster because Anything with a black like sticker on it Automatically goes faster. I mean especially black and red like black and red those are performance colors So it's hard to go wrong with performance like black and red Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Kingston SSD now v plus series performance upgrade kit SSD drive. Oh, yeah, don't forget to subscribe