Gadgetory

this is a drive from Kingston's SSD now series this is a v+ drive and it is the 180 so you might ask you know what's up with an arbitrary number like 180 well I would postulate that it stands for 1.8 inch so you can see that this SSD is actually substantially smaller than other SSDs in the SSD now v+ series and the reason for that is that not every device out there uses two and a half inch drives what a concept some subnotebooks and even other devices actually require you to have a 1.8 inch drive if you want upgrade and kingston is not going to leave behind any part of the market that they can meet and given that SSD technology is very easily shrunk down to smaller sizes well hey why not produce a 100 1.8 inch drive I'm not a big fan of the whole plastic clamshell packaging but it's not too hard to get apart so let's see what Kingston has to say for themselves in the documentation here kind of clever the way they do their manuals you just kind of take apart the packaging and then BOOM there's your getting started guide so 1.8 inch drive something to be aware of is if you're upgrading a notebook for example that comes with a 1.8 inch drive you might be in for a bit of a treat getting things apart they don't actually say much in here about that they're just talking about the physical installation make sure you got to say to the interface and a SATA cable make sure your configure your BIOS to boot from the SSD all of that good stuff this guy is about staying up-to-date on Kingston technology news and products ok challenge first of all interface ok this is not a standard SATA desktop interface so I want you to look at a standard desktop drive so we're gonna orient these guys the same way these are clearly not the same it actually is a proprietary well not proprietary it is a standard connector but it's a different standard connector on a 1.8 inch drive versus a two and a half inch drive because you can clearly see that this drive just isn't wide enough to fit all that stuff on with the necessary reinforcements and structural bits that need to go along with it so that's the reason for the different interface now the other thing to be aware of is that taking apart a drive or a computer or an appliance or whatever else you have that is designed to accept this kind of a drive might be a bit of a challenge because they're usually highly embedded highly proprietary and then you're gonna require probably a set of torque screw drivers as well as some other special stuff as well now just in terms of sheer size I want to show you a three and a half inch desktop hard drive so you hold that up to a computer it looks pretty small looks pretty normal this is what a hard drive looks like okay two and a half inch drives these are basically gonna replace three and a half inch drives in the next couple years as far as I can tell they're about one-quarter the size of a three and a half inch drive so you take that you put it on top you can see that we could easily fit two side-by-side you take that and put it on the side and you can see that we could easily stack two so you actually have some adapters for example three and a half inch to two and a half inch adapters that you can mount in a case that will just take two SSDs and mount them in the sandwich form right directly on top of each other so you can fit double the density and then I've even seen five and a quarter inch bay adapters that allow you to hot swap for two and a half inch drives in the space of one of those so everything's getting more miniature all the time but this just really takes the cake this thing is just tiny compared to a two and a half inch drive you've got about half the thickness so here I'm gonna give you that angle so you can see it pretty well even less than actually oh no that's probably about half the thickness of the two and a half inch drive although it's not quite the same proportion so it's not a one to four ratio like the two and a half to three and a half so you can see the interface makes it just a little bit too long to actually fit four of these in the same space but there you have it Kingston produces a full range of SSD products including two and a half inch as well as 1.8 inch drives and thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Kingston SSDs now V+ a 180 that is a 64 gig very very very small you okay here's a good comparison Oh hold on pause so just for size comparison this is a crazy Russians credit card which he thoughtfully loaned to me so that I could show you guys how big this 1.8 inch drive is compared to a credit card so you can see it is actually smaller than a credit card so hey if you got an encrypted one of these you could actually like carry it around in your wallet remember this is the encrypted drive this one's not encrypted is just really small so there you have it that is the 1.8 inch drive