Kingston SSD Now V Series 128 GB Review
AS SSD Benchmark
This is a specially designed benchmark for Solid State Drives (SSD). The tool contains four synthetic as well as three practice tests. The synthetic tests determine the sequential and random read and write performance of the SSD. These tests are carried out without use of the operating system caches. In Seq-test the program measures how long it takes to read and write a 1 GB file respectively. In the 4K test the read and write performance for random 4K blocks is determined. The 4K-64-thrd test corresponds to the 4K procedure except that the read and write operations on 64 threads are distributed (typical start of a program).
In the copying test following folders are created: ISO (two large files), programs (typical program folder with many small files) and games (folder of a game with small and large files). These three folders are copied with a simple copy command of the operating system. The cache is turned on for this test. The practice tests show the performance of the SSD with simultaneous read and write operations.
Kingston – Left, Patriot – Right
The Kingston SSD shows better performance in the sequential read and write speeds but suffers in the random read speeds.
- Copy Test
The random read 4K performance advantage for the Patriot SSD translates to a better showing in the real world tests here.
Great review! The video wouldn’t work for me though.. it says it’s a private video! Hmmm? Regardless, a video showing performance impressions would be nice too!