Kingston has been offering Solid-State Drives (SSDs) to consumers since they introduced their SSDNow family of drives back at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The first two products in its SSDNow line of SSDs were the SSDNow E Series and SSDNow M Series. Kingston targeted its SSDNow E Series to the enterprise server environment while the SSDNow M Series was built for the road warrior who demanded the ultimate performance from a notebook PC. The Kingston SSDNow E and M Series use Intel’s first generation 50nm solid-state drive technology, which was the best on the market back in January 2009. We published an in-depth review of the Kingston 80GB SSDNow M Series drive and found it to be on the same performance level as the Intel X25-M 80GB SSD that we previously reviewed. The SSDNow M and E series drives were fast, but more expensive than what mainstream consumers were willing to pay.