Comparison drives
| Storage drive | Kingston SSD Now V+ 2nd Gen | Kingston SSD Now V+ 1st Gen | Corsair X128 SSD | Samsung HD103UJ HDD | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Drive capacity | 128GB | 64GB | 128GB | 1,000GB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Approx. price at time of writing | £310 | £140 | £330 | £55 |
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| Approx price per GB | 2.11 |
2.19 |
2.58 |
0.055 |
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| CPU | Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.67GHz) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motherboard | Foxconn P45 Digital Life | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BIOS revision | P03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Memory | 4GB Corsair DDR2-1,066 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host hard drive | Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Graphics Card | Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 512MB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mainboard software | Intel 9.1.1.1015 |
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| Graphics driver | Catalyst 9.9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PSU | Corsair HX1000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating System | Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tests
| 2D benchmarks | CrystalDiskMark 2.2.0m HDTune 3.50 Pro Far Cry loading test Windows 7 booting test Disk torture - writing 25,868 (3.72GB) files back onto drive |
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Setup notes
To give some idea of basic performance, we're comparing the Kingston SSDNow V+ 128GB to a 64GB first-generation drive as well as a 128GB X128 SSD from Corsair that features an Indilinx controller. We've also thrown in a 1TB mechanical HDD from Samsung for good measure, too.
Firmware AGYA0201 was used for
the Kingston drive, together with the latest available for the other
drives.
CrystalDiskMark provides throughput data based on sequential reads and
writes, and random (512K/4K) reads and writes. We've used the default
100MB file-size for the tests.
Further synthetic benchmarks come in the form of HD Tune 3.50 Pro,
which measures read and write speed on the unformatted drives. The
program also has a benchmark for evaluating random-reading performance
and the read numbers are graphed. Random-write performance is too
inconsistent to provide any meaningful results, however.
We also hand-time how long it takes to copy a folder containing 25,868
files (3.72GB) from the drive back to the drive, as a 'copy' folder.
This test stresses the read, write, and controller efficiency.
Copying an exact image on to the test drives, we time how long it takes
to load Windows 7 and, once within the operating system, a Far Cry
2 level.
