The more solid state drives grow in popularity, the
larger the need to make them affordable. As it sits now, companies are choosing
between two paths to achieve low priced drives. The first has been to extend
the lifecycle for current products on the market, either leaving the existing
model numbers in tact or releasing a new product SKU based on existing
technology. A good example of this is the Corsair Nova, a slightly revised
Indilinx Barefoot controlled drive that is very close to the original Performance
Series offered by Corsair last year.
The second way to achieve a low cost product is to
introduce an entirely new product SKU and use older technology that is for the
most part, obsolete. This also has a documented parity and can be found in the
Kingston SSDNow V Series, second generation drive. The second generation V
Series uses a JMicron controller once thought to have served its purpose on the
market even though it was released last June at Computex. The drive performs
much slower at real world tasks than the Indilinx Barefoot, but Kingston has
priced the drive so low that would be purchasers with the understanding of You
Get What You Pay For know that you are paying little for little performance. At
259 USD the Kingston SSDNow V Series has a much lower cost than the Corsair
Nova that is currently selling for 330 USD. @ TweakTown
