Kingston SSD Now V Series 128 GB Review

CrystalDiskMark 3.0

CrystalDiskMark is a HDD benchmark utility for your hard drive that enables you to measure sequential and random read/write speeds. Here are some key features of “CrystalDiskMark”:

• Measure sequential reads/writes speed
• Measure random 512KB, 4KB, 4KB (Queue Depth=32) reads/writes speed

Kingston – Left, Patriot – Right

The Kingston SSD offers a faster sequential read speed than the Patriot SSD but looses out in the write speeds. Also the 512K random test performance of the Kinston SSD is lacking when compared to the Patriot SSD. After a strong showing in the random read performance with 512KB data, the Kingston SSD shows a weakness when playing with 4KB random reads. The read speeds with the 4KB blocks of data are half of that of the Patriot SSD. I think Kingston has some much needed work to be done here to stabilize the performance across the board for this SSD.