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| by AkG | December 16, 2009 | ||
| First Impressions First Impressions    Also unlike most drives we have looked at in the past, this one only has a lone label adorning it. We can honestly say that we like the fact Kingston went with a frugal approach to their colour scheme and styling, but we really would have preferred to have seen two labels on this drive. Cramming all the pertinent information onto the one label is just not possible and it thus this one is a little sparse on details.  On the positive side the single label is colourful and does have mainly useful information on it. Taking up the majority of this white with red highlights label is the Kingston “redhead” logo. Towards the bottom we see the power specifications of this unit, which is .25A off the 5v line; this translates to a very frugal max power draw of 1.25 watts. While this drive is only half the size of the X25-M 80GB generation 1 drive we looked at a while back, it uses only one quarter of the power which is pretty amazing.   Where this is a Intel controller based Solid State Drive it came as no surprise that it is jumper-less. While it is unclear when Kingston will release firmware updates for this the SSDNow, one thing is certain: it will not require you to first remove the drive from the case, set a jumper and then place it back in your system. This is a lot easier than the older method Indilinx employs on some of their drives. | ||
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