Kingston SSDNow V300 (120GB & 240GB) Review
by Kristian Vättö on April 30, 2013 12:30 PM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench 2011—Light Workload
Our light workload actually has more write operations than read operations. The split is as follows: 372,630 reads and 459,709 writes. The relatively close read/write ratio does better mimic a typical light workload (although even lighter workloads would be far more read centric).
The I/O breakdown is similar to the heavy workload at small IOs, however you'll notice that there are far fewer large IO transfers:
| AnandTech Storage Bench 2011—Light Workload IO Breakdown | ||||
| IO Size | % of Total | |||
| 4KB | 27% | |||
| 16KB | 8% | |||
| 32KB | 6% | |||
| 64KB | 5% | |||
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ericgl21 - Monday, May 6, 2013 - link
How do you manually optimize it in Vista?Raikku - Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - link
I bought V300 120Gb, it's with 506 firmware and it doesn't work as it should. It's properly in SATA3-connecter(ASRock Ext4's Intel SATA3, not Marvel) and it give under 200Mb/s reading speeds, more precisely those speeds are around 180Mb/s.My other SSD, which is Vertex 4, give almost 500Mb/s in those same tests.
KevinWinters - Monday, August 4, 2014 - link
I'd like to add this about the product. I have been volunteering my time and money to help my local catholic elementary school upgrade their technology, Let me tell you they, are on an amazingly small budget so anything goes, I even investigated refurbished Dell 755's just to get them onto Windows 7 because all their machines were windows XP.I came upon the idea of turning 30 windows XP laptops into Windows 7 laptops by adding a little memory and an SSD drive, I needed a very cheap SSD drive and did all my research via web reviews, I really hesitated on the Kingston 120 GB drive as almost all reviews were very angry about some NAND changes, but I noticed that each review was followed by a polite response from the vendor so I decided I liked the idea of the vendor keeping responsibility, so I gave it a try. So here is my review:
For the price: a fantastic improvement over HDD, totally worth it, maybe some people who are totally into specs will show how bad it is in some ways, but it has saved the day in this poor, elementary school and I thank Kingston for their low price and significant improvement over a mechanical drive.