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We received the ‘performance upgrade kit' bundle, which includes extra accessories. There is a small premium for this particular bundle, but it is normally only £10-£15 extra.
The drive and accessories are protected inside a cardboard shell, as shown above. Inside is a software disc (with Acronis True Image), an external enclosure and cabling for connection to a USB port or SATA equipped motherboard.
The external drive enclosure is a nice extra, and we have used it many times before to upgrade systems. With the supplied Acronis True Image software it is possible to completely mirror the internal drive of a laptop, or desktop system and simply replace without having to reinstall the operating system from scratch.
The other part of the Performance Kit bundle is a power converter cable, SATA cable and drive mounting rails. Useful for many people.
The Kingston 90GB SSD is an attractively finished Solid State Drive with an image of the artistic red face on the front and all relevant information on the drive. We noticed that Kingston are securing the drive with specialised Torx screws, but they won't keep us out.
There are six NAND modules on each side of the PCB. The chips are Intel branded MLC NAND flash built on 25nm architecture, part number 29F6G08ACME3. These are asynchronous and 8GB in size (12x8gb).
The drive is using the Sandforce SF-2281 controller which we have seen in a plethora of drives in recent months. This particular design relies heavily on real time compression to boost write performance but we have seen in previous reviews that the product doesn't score as well when dealing with incompressible data. It has full TRIM support and with the DuraClass technology it offers error correction, 256-AES encryption and wear leveling.
sweet, going to order one later
this is a good size. 60gb was always too small, and 128gb a bit expensive. cant see this kit available anywhere however. any links to it ?