General testing
| Disk torture - writing 25,868 files (3.72GB) back onto drive | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time in seconds, lower is better | |||
| Corsair X128 SSD 128GB | Samsung HD103UJ 1TB | Kingston SSDNow V+ 128GB | Kingston SSDNow V+ 64GB |
| 96.2 | 119.6 | 94.9 | 100.3 |
| Windows 7 HP loading time | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Corsair X128 SSD 128GB | Samsung HD103UJ 1TB | Kingston SSDNow V+ 128GB | Kingston SSDNow V+ 64GB |
| 23 | 32 | 25 | 23 |
| Far Cry 2 loading time | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Corsair X128 SSD 128GB | Samsung HD103UJ 1TB | Kingston SSDNow V+ 128GB | Kingston SSDNow V+ 64GB |
| 35 | 39 | 34 | 36 |
Forgetting about synthetics for a moment, there's nothing of note to separate the three premium SSDs in the pragmatic tests.
It's possible to engineer situations where the second-generation Kingston V+ SSD looks mightily impressive, mainly concentrating around 4K random-write performance, yet, really, it performs practically identically to other premium drives.
