Need Kingston SSD help plz

[Bocephus]

I am looking to buy an internal SSD HDD...I'm tired of my mechanical HDD being louder than my computer. It's starting to sound like the old tele type or dot matrix printer in a box when it reads/writes. I know were hot on Kingston at OC3D, so I'm going to go with that.

I'm in the planning out stage right now. I'll be running 1 for now then adding 2 more a little later.

SSD HDD's are Alien to me at this point. I was looking at Kingston's site and have decided on a 128 Gig SSD but have some questions.

It looks like I have 4 choices as follows (all SSD Now).

A. V100 SATA II My link or...

B. V+ 100E SATA II MLC My link or...

C. V Series SATA II My link or...

D. V+100 SATA II MLC My link.

What's the difference between...V series, V100, V+100, V+100E?

What's the difference between plain SATA II and SATA II MLC?

Of course anything is going to be an improvement to my noisy about to fail mechanical HDD. Lol

 

[Aurus_OC]

The E versions of the Kingston SSDs are all hardware encrypted SSDs, which means they are well more secure than your typical SSD. I don't think as the end consumer you will need hardware encryption on an SSD unless you are trying to store some CIA data on it

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In general the V+ SSDs from Kingston are the fastest so imho I would go with Option D. It may be more expensive than the normal V series SSDs, but the perfomance is a lot better.

MLC means "Multiple Level Cell", which comes down to how SSDs work. In an MLC more than one bit (typically 4) are stored in one cell, which increases the Bit error rate (basically the mistakes the chip makes) but increases the storage space. The electronics in those are more complicated aswell, but that's not your problem as the consumer, right.

Those SSDs are designed to make a certain number of mistakes so that really isn't a problem compared SLC SSDs, which only store 1 bit in one cell. The speeds on SLC SSDs are going to be faster, but the prices are not suitable for the consumer end.

So you are going to be absolutely fine with a MLC SSD and with the V+100 you are still going to see massive improvements over your good old HDD.

Cheers,

 

[Bocephus]

sweet...TYVM for sharing your welcomed knowledge