PERFORMANCE
Test Setup
Processor: Intel Core i7 3770K
Motherboard: ASUS Maximus V Formula
Memory: Kingston HyperX Predator DDR3-2400
Storage: Kingston HyperX SSD 120GB
PSU: Seasonic X-760W
Cooling: Corsair H100 (Max)
We used HD Tach to measure the potential read speed of our SSD. The average read speed is what matters in this test as this is more indicative of the drive’s performance on a day to day basis. HD Tach is at end of life status right now but we believe the program still manages to present a valid picture what to expect from a storage product.
We can see the Kingston SSDNow V300 easily puts up numbers that the world’s fastest hard-drive can’t even accomplish. Compared to other SSDs in the upper segment, Kingston’s SSDNow V300 manages to get a good spot on average read performance.
For potential write testing, HD Tune was used to measure the drive’s write performance. Again, we focus on the average results for real-world relevance.
Focusing on average write results, the SSDNow V300 easily beats out all the drives in our graphs proving it can hang with the big boys.
Crystal Disk Mark is storage benchmarking software was developed by “hiyohiyo†of Japan, and is available for free. Crystal Disk Mark measures sequential, and random read/write speeds of storage devices.
The primary point of interest in this test is small file operations in the 4K test. We can see write performance going well past the others in the test which is sure to please some users. Overall though, the Kingston SSDNow falters in the majority of the testing but this is in by no means makes the SSDNow V300 a slouch, the numbers here are very good and if you’re coming off a hard disk drive then they are quite impressive.
AS SSDÂ is a benchmark tool that determines the performance of Solid State Drives but can also be used to measure hard drives, it just takes longer. The tool contains six synthetic and three copy tests .
Pretty similar scenario to the earlier test although we see a drop in performance numbers. Still, everything is up there where they should be.
ATTO Disk Benchmark benchmarks a drive’s read and write speeds with increasing file sizes and graphs them.
Given the best conditions, ATTO shows us that the Kingston SSDNow V300 can easily fair with the higher priced SSDs and manages to smoke-out even the Velociraptor which is dubbed as the fastest consumer hard drive in the market.
We’ve taken our compression test files, a collection of images, documents and other files ranging from 1KB to 50MB amounting to 3,310 files for 2.49GB and then a large 12GB MKV file.
Not much comparative data as we’ve just added this test recently. We’ll update it as our library increases. For now we leave this up to your conclusion.
To measure boot-up time we used BootRacer. BootRacer is a free program that measures Windows boot-up times.
Again, not so much variance in terms of boot speed. The fact here is that the drive still puts us below 20-seconds which is something we’d always want.
One thing about SSD manufacturers is that they give the consumers some sort of false image of what their products can do. Solid-state drives by their very nature tend to go down a few levels after some usage and settle at a certain performance point which will be it’s “steady” state. What this means for you, the consumers, is that even though this drive can do 450/450MB it will not do that after you’ve used the drive over time. We’ve had our sample for a little over a month now and to accelerate the aging process we ran HD Tune Write Test a total of 10 times. Giving the drive a 10-minute break after each test to let the controller do it’s work and then resume. Immediately after the last run we perform a Crystal DiskMark run to see what happens.
The drive manages to retain its out-of-the-box performance, losing out only a couple MB/s in the process. The main hit here is in the 512K read test where we see a massive drop but nothing to be alarmed about.
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Now that good question will be……V300 or M4….. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm