Kingston SSDNow V+ 128GB (SNVP325-S2/128GB)

HDTach

HDTach average speed came in at 203.5MB/s and the Intel drive topped it by a bit. Considering the Kingston SSDNow V+ has out of the box TRIM support, we know which drive will sustain performance longer.

The Burst test in HDTach shows the drive coming in at 235.1 MB/s, that's a pretty decent burst speed.

We wanted to toss in a screen shot of HDTach, but naturally we forgot to do the screen shot while testing. So we had to go back, after we hammered the drive for several days, and take a screen shot. At this point, we haven't ran TRIM on it yet. The drive has held up well to the hammering we gave it and the transfer speeds remained almost level throughout the entire test.

Sisoft Sandra

We didn't chart Sandra because it provides a nice graph in the process of testing, and at times those provide more information than a bar chart.

Like we mentioned sometimes, the screen shot tells the story better than the bar chart. Notice how the other SSD's wander all over the graph and the Kingston SSDNow v+ (red chart line) provides a level transfer speed in the 210MB/s range the entire test. That's the consistency we expect from high end, well engineered drives.

This is an excerpt from Sandra showing the speed of the drive at a given position on the drive media. Normally at the end of a test, a platter drive slows down a lot. The SSDNow V+, being a solid state drive, stays in the 210MB/s - 217MB/s range all the way to the end of the drives media. That's one big advantage of SSD's; consistent transfer rates across the entire drive.