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Kingston SSDNow 40GB V-series SSD review. Desktop and netbook performance

by Tarinder Sandhu on 30 October 2009, 19:49 3.85

Tags: Kingston 40GB SSDNow V Series, MSI Wind U100+ (Kingston 40GB SSD), Kingston

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CrystalDiskMark

CrystalDiskMark sequential read speed
MB/s, higher is better
Crucial CT64M225 SSD 64GBSamsung HD103UJ 1TBCorsair X128 SSD 128GBKingston SSDNow V+ 64GBKingston SSDNow V Series 40GB
200.9108.1251.3222.6195.9


Straight-line read speed is just shy of the figures produced by premium SSDs.

CrystalDiskMark sequential write speed
MB/s, higher is better
Crucial CT64M225 SSD 64GBSamsung HD103UJ 1TBCorsair X128 SSD 128GBKingston SSDNow V+ 64GBKingston SSDNow V Series 40GB
93.1198.63146.9145.744.69


Sequential writing is rather low, sure, but Kingston doesn't hide this fact on the product literature. The sub-par performance shouldn't be exposed if used as a boot drive, as most of the workload will consist of reads.

CrystalDiskMark random read speed (512K)
MB/s, higher is better
Crucial CT64M225 SSD 64GBSamsung HD103UJ 1TBCorsair X128 SSD 128GBKingston SSDNow V+ 64GBKingston SSDNow V Series 40GB
153.744.61182.6179.1142.4


CrystalDiskMark random write speed (512K)
MB/s, higher is better
Crucial CT64M225 SSD 64GBSamsung HD103UJ 1TBCorsair X128 SSD 128GBKingston SSDNow V+ 64GBKingston SSDNow V Series 40GB
89.9675.4144.9113.144.66


CrystalDiskMark random read speed (4K)
MB/s, higher is better
Crucial CT64M225 SSD 64GBSamsung HD103UJ 1TBCorsair X128 SSD 128GBKingston SSDNow V+ 64GBKingston SSDNow V Series 40GB
27.630.6229.6723.921.99


CrystalDiskMark random write speed (4K)
MB/s, higher is better
Crucial CT64M225 SSD 64GBSamsung HD103UJ 1TBCorsair X128 SSD 128GBKingston SSDNow V+ 64GBKingston SSDNow V Series 40GB
11.21.9517.896.143.69


The randomised writing of very small files is where the first-generation drive did well. It's even better with the 34nm-based SSD.