Legit Storage Reviews

Kingston 40GB V Series Boot Drive SSD Review

Manufacturer: Kingston
Product: SNV125-S2BD/40GB
Date: Sun, Oct 25, 2009 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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AS SSD Benchmark

A new benchmark is in the works for Solid State Drives - AS SSD Benchmark. We have run this benchmark for several months now and found that it is a great SSD benchmark that shows 4K read and write speeds that so many of our readers want to know about.

BIOS Set To IDE Mode With The Drive As A Secondary:

AS SSD Benchmark Results

BIOS Set To AHCI Mode With The Drive As A Primary:

AS SSD Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results:  The 4K writes were impressive at nearly 20MB/s read and 36MB/s write in IDE mode. The 4K-64Thrd benchmark results were insane in AHCI mode!

BIOS Set To IDE Mode With The Drive As A Secondary:

AS SSD Benchmark Results

BIOS Set To AHCI Mode With The Drive As A Primary:

AS SSD Benchmark Results

Copy Benchmark Results: The Copy benchmark test showed some fairly solid performance numbers.

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Review Index
Page 1 - Kingston's 34nm 40GB Boot Drive
Page 2 - 40GB Boot Drive Unboxing
Page 3 - Inside The SSDNow V Series Drive
Page 4 - The Test System
Page 5 - HD Tach v3.0.4.0
Page 6 - HD Tune v3.50
Page 7 - HD Tune v3.50 - Random Access
Page 8 - SiSoftware Sandra 2009 SP3
Page 9 - CrystalDiskMark v2.2
Page 10 - ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.34
Page 11 - PCMark Vantage
Page 12 - AS SSD Benchmark
Page 13 - Capacity and Windows 7
Page 14 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions