Kingston has done a great job with design of the new V300 packaging, highlighting such things as the massive performance improvement from a typical hard drive and ease of migration. Performance for the V300 is listed at 450MB/s read and write with a high of 85,000 IOPS at low 4k aligned random write disk access and a standard 3 year warranty is included with the V300. Specifications list 240GB as being an included capacity, however, we aren’t seeing any online at Kingston or Amazon as of yet. The Kingston SSDNow V300 SSD is available in capacities of 60 and 120GB capacity and a quick check of Amazon has the V300 priced at roughly $77 and $109 with pricing just a bit higher with the included full migration kit. The Kingston V300 seems to be an ideal example of this value, at least on the outside, so let’s take a closer look at where technology seems to be heading. Getting more value, and potentially more capacity, to the consumer is key and manufacturers are finding ways to do this using memory that has a smaller overall footprint. It is no secret that the established ‘best practice’ with respect to consumer SSDs has become that of ‘more for less’. The V300 is a unique Kingston SSD introduction as it is their first product using the new Toshiba 19nm NAND flash memory process, but also, this SSD is ‘SandForce Driven by LSI’ and a key example of the success that can be had when two companies work closely together. In between each test suite runs (with the exception being IOMeter which was done after every run) the drives are cleaned with either HDDerase, SaniErase or OCZ SSDToolbox and then quick formatted to make sure that they were in optimum condition for the next test suite.ĭue to the unique nature of the hybrid setup certain tests results have been omitted as they require an unformatted drive to test or gave erroneous results.Today’s SSD analysis takes a look at a new SSD to the market, this being the Kingston SSDNow V300 SATA 3 SSD. All drives were tested using AHCI mode using Intel RST 10 drivers.Īll tests were run 4 times and average results are represented. We also used 10gb of small files (from 100kb to 200MB) with a total 12,000 files in 400 subfolders.įor all testing a Asus P8P67 Deluxe motherboard was used, running Windows 7 64bit Ultimate edition. With the main drive being an Intel DC S3700 800GB Solid State Drive.įor synthetic tests we used a combination of the ATTO Disk Benchmark, HDTach, HD Tune, Crystal Disk Benchmark, IOMeter, AS-SSD, Anvil Storage Utilities and PCMark 7.įor real world benchmarks we timed how long a single 10GB rar file took to copy to and then from the devices. However, except for the Windows 7 load test times we have done our best to eliminate this issue by having the drive tested as a secondary drive. For this reason our standard OS setup is used. As with the hardware end of things, to obtain the absolute best results you do need to tweak your OS setup however, just like with the hardware solution most people are not going to do this. This is to help replicate what you the end user’s experience will be like.Įven when the hardware issues are taken care of the software itself will have a negative or positive impact on the results. For this reason our test-bed will be a more standard motherboard with no mods or high end gear added to it. Unfortunately, most people do not have the time, inclination or monetary funds to do this. For best results you really need a dedicated hardware RAID controller w/ dedicated RAM for drives to shine. There is also the SATA controller on your motherboard and how well it works with SSDs & HDDs to think about as well. Rather, there are factors such as read / write speed and data burst speed to take into account. Testing a drive is not as simple as putting together a bunch of files, dragging them onto folder on the drive in Windows and using a stopwatch to time how long the transfer takes.
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