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Review: Kingston |
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The name Kingston is one of the most
recognizable ones when it comes to memory storage, and in the past here at Myce
we had the opportunity to take an in-depth look at some of their products such
as the HyperX
3K and also the more affordable V+
200. Kingston has now introduced a new member to the V series, the V300,
which is Kingston's latest SSD that is only 7mm thick, making it an ideal
replacement for your ultrabook but also an excellent choice for a desktop
upgrade. Kingston’s V300 not only offers a 7mm drive but also comes at a very
attractive price, and comparing that with the usual high standards that we expect
from Kingston, it should be a very obvious choice.
In this review we will be looking at all
aspects of the Kingston V300, mainly focusing on performance although also
taking other things into consideration, such as build quality and price.
Kingston was kind enough to send me the
V300 upgrade edition SSD for a review. Before I start this review I will say a
few things about the drive. The Kingston V300 is based on the LSI’s Sandforce
controller, it comes in three capacities, 60GB/120GB and the highest one is the
one that I will be testing, the 240GB drive. You can get the V300 in three
different packages, the drive only, the Netbook package, and finally we have
the Desktop package.
I will start this review by looking at the
packaging, the drive, and also what it came shipped with. So let's move on and
take a closer look at the Kingston V300 SSD and give the drive a chance to
prove how much of an ' Upgrade' the Kingston V300 really is.
Company info.
If you aren’t familiar with Kingston you
can visit their official website and get more information about the company, by
clicking here.
Kingston V300 240GB SSD
Let’s start by taking a closer look at the
package and what it comes shipped with.
Packaging
Box front
Box rear
The packaging of the Kingston V300 is
simple, clean and stylish. At the back we can see that Kingston focuses on the
3 steps that are required for the backup process and mainly on the accessories
that come with the upgrade kit.
Inside the box
Everything you need is in this upgrade kit.
Starting with the SSD, SATA data and power cables, a 7mm to 9.5mm adapter, and a
3.5” adapter. You will also find a USB2 enclosure, a USB cable and two discs,
one has an installation video and the other has the Acronis cloning software.
Kingston has done an excellent job with the contents of their package.
A closer look at the V300
Front side of the Kingston V300
Drive underside
Visually the drive looks clean and simple.
It has a nice black/white colour scheme and a brushed finish making it more
appealing to the eye.
Now let’s look at what’s inside.
On
the top we can see eight 19nm NAND chips manufactured by Toshiba and rebranded
as Kingston
On
the bottom, we can see another eight NAND chips.
A
closer look at the Kingston Toggle NAND manufactured by TOSHIBA using 19nm
technology,
and also
a picture of the SandForce SF-2281 controller rebranded as Kingston.
Specifications
The following specifications can be found at
the Kingston website.
From the above pictures we can get a more
detailed view of the specifications of the Kingston V300 SSD.
CrystalDiskInfo
In
the above picture we can see some more info about the Kingston V300 240GB SSD.
Let’s head to the next page where we
take a look at our testing methods and the review PC.
Test machine
For this review I will be using a computer
with the following configuration:
Hardware:
- Motherboard: AsRock Z68 Extreme 4 (Intel Z68
chipset) - Processor: Intel 2nd generation
Core i5 2500K - RAM: 8GB Kingston Hyper X DDR3 1600MHz (dual channel)
- GFX: Onboard Intel HD 3000
- Sound: Onboard Realtek ALC889 HD audio
controller - Hard disk OS: Western Digital Blue 500GB
- PSU: Corsair CX430 430W
- Display: Futsiju Siemens 22”
- Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit with
Service Pack 1
The Kingston V300 SSD was connected to the Intel
native SATA 6Gbps (port 1) on the Z68 motherboard of our review PC and all
tests on the drive were carried out with the drive connected to this port.
AHCI mode was also selected for all drives
in the UEFI of our test PC, and all tests were carried out in this mode.
The SATA 6Gbps drivers used on our review
PC were the Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) Version 10.8.0.1003.
Test applications
To test the performance of the Kingston
V300 SSD, I will be using the following test applications in this review.
- HD Tune
Pro - ATTO
- Iometer
- AS SSD
Benchmark - CrystalDiskMark
- Anvil’s
Storage Utilities - PCMark
Vantage
Test procedures
I will start off our testing procedures
explanation by stating that I did not run many synthetic benchmarks on the Kingston
V300 SSD. You may ask why I have run so few synthetic benchmarks?
SSD technology has moved so fast in the
last couple of years, that basic synthetic benchmarks alone are now of very
limited use, as they don't really tell us much about performance and how the
drive will behave in the real world. I have therefore decided to show some
basic benchmarks for the Kingston V300 SSD, and will complement this with
advanced benchmarks using IOMeter and AS SSD benchmark. I will also show how
the Kingston V300 SSD performs in the real world.
The reality of SSD performance
While I can easily show you which SSD is
technically the faster, when you use one of these modern SSDs as an operating
system drive it becomes very difficult to tell them apart as far as performance
is concerned.
A typical use of a small capacity SSD at
the moment is to have your operating system and applications installed onto the
SSD. The performance difference compared to a traditional HDD is enormous,
however when you start to compare SSD to SSD the difference becomes almost
impossible to detect.
Let’s look at why this is the case.
Drive A can boot to the desktop in 8.11
seconds, and drive B can boot to the desktop in 8.12 seconds, the difference in
time is milliseconds, and can one really tell the difference?
The fact is, all modern SSDs are only
ticking over when they are only running the OS and launching applications, it’s
only when you get to some of the larger capacity SSDs, with enough free space
to be able to hold the actual data that you’re going to be working with, be
that video, audio or pictures, for example, that you actually get a tangible
difference in performance. This is where the SSDs with the better sequential
performance start to pull well ahead of the SSDs which have lower sequential
read/write performance.
Small file random IOPS vs sequential performance
IOPS
This is a fairly complex subject, but I
will do my best to explain things in a manner that is easy to understand.
The term IOPS is the amount of input or
output transactions that can take place in a one second interval, so for
example, if an SSD is quoted as being able to cope with 20,000 4K random write
IOPS, then the SSD should be able to cope with 20,000 input transactions in a
period of one second. If the same SSD is said to be able to produce 20,000 4K
random read IOPS, then the same SSD should be able to produce 20,000 4K random
read output transactions in a one second interval.
Ok, now we have some figures to work with,
the next question is how many IOPS are actually required?
This will depend on your usage pattern. If
you are a typical desktop user who browses the internet, does some word
processing or perhaps some audio or video editing, and perhaps plays a few
games, then in actual fact, you don’t need to have massive 4K random read/write
performance. The actual amount of 4K random performance that is required for a
fast and smooth running system for a desktop user with a usage pattern similar
to the above will be well under 1,000 4K IOPS.
On the other hand, if the SSD is being used
for running a large and complex database server, then 4K random performance is
the absolute measurement of how fast that server will run, as this type of
application does most of its input and output transactions in the 4K domain.
So why would I need an SSD with 80,000 4K
IOPS for a desktop?
In fact you don’t need this type of
performance for a desktop, but an SSD which is capable of coping with 80,000 4K
IOPS will be faster than an SSD which can only cope with 20,000 4K IOPS.
OK, I just said if under 1,000 4K IOPS are
actually required for typical desktop usage, why is an SSD with 80,000 4K IOPS
faster than an SSD with only 20,000 4K IOPS, confused?
You may ask, if I only require 1,000 4K
IOPS surely the rest is wasted?
While you may never need 80,000 4K IOPS,
IOPS is all about latency. The reason that an SSD can cope with as much as 80,000
4K IOPS is because latency in this domain is very low. With 4K files, even if
you require to process 500 of them at the same time, you are not talking about
a huge amount of data, it has far more to do with how long it takes the SSD to
process a single file, and the amount of time required to process a single 4K
is all about how long it takes for the SSD to access or store that data before
it can move on to the next transaction.
In other words an SSD with 80,000 4K IOPS
performance will handle those 500 files faster than the SSD with 20,000 IOPS.
So how will a desktop user even notice this
faster speed if so little 4K random IOPS and data are actually used?
Multitasking is a good example. The more
tasks you run at the same time, you more you will notice the speed difference.
Sequential performance
I have always maintained that sequential
performance was every bit as important as small random file performance for a
desktop SSD. Some highly regarded people on other sites found this statement
quite funny a couple of years ago when I made it, but my, how times have
changed in the world of SSD reviewing.
To me this was always so obvious for a
desktop user. For example, let’s say you want to launch an application or game.
Both have some fairly large files to load, and also a great many small files,
but the point is, even the smaller files are sequential in nature. Now let’s
say you’re into audio or video editing. Video files tend to be huge, and the
files are written or read sequentially. Isn’t this how many users are using
their PCs these days?
Summary
So how does this shape up in the real
world? Which is better, massive 4K IOPS or massive sequential performance?
In an ideal world you want both, as an SSD
with massive random 4K IOPS and sequential performance will always be faster
than an SSD that has high sequential performance and moderate 4K random IOPS
performance, and the same applies to an SSD that has massive 4K random
performance and moderate sequential performance. The SSD which has high
performance in both patterns will always be the faster SSD.
However, you can still have an SSD that is
very fast for desktop use that has moderate random 4K performance and massive
sequential performance, the same can be said about a drive having massive
random 4K performance and moderate sequential performance, as it is about
getting the balance right if you have to compromise on one or the other.
Drive preparation for running the tests
All the SSDs used in this article were in a
clean and fresh state when the testing period started. From then on, each drive
had to rely on its own NAND cleaning effectiveness for the remainder of the
tests.
- Both our spinning HDD drives were
defragged before the start of each test.
- All SSD and HDD used in this article had
their partitions aligned to the Windows 7 x64 defaults.
Where I use graphs in this article to
display results, I will use the following colours to make it easier, for our
readers to see which drive we are reviewing.
Kingston V300 240GB SSD
Comparison SSD
Comparison HDD
Now let's head to the next page, where I
look at some basic benchmarks...
Reading Benchmarks
HD Tune
HD Tune – Sequential reading test
I present the graph below for comparison
with other recently tested drives.
The Kingston V300 s delivers considerable performance
in this test, giving an impressive result of 419.1MB/Sec average read speed.
ATTO disk benchmark
ATTO has become a standard tool for
measuring the data throughput of HDD and SSD. It measures the reading and
writing performance, using different file sizes and block sizes.
Testing the drive with ATTO we see that the
drive can reach write speeds up to 530MB/Sec, and read speeds of 550MB/Sec.
This result is very impressive considering the official specification that Kingston
gives.
CrystalDiskMark 3.0
Crystal Disk Mark is quite a handy
benchmarking application, as it focuses on the file sizes that can cause a
problem on a system drive.
The default setting on CrystalDiskMark is
to use random data, and that gives a more realistic view on the performance of
any drive. The overall performance of the Kingston V300 is again impressive.
I am also giving you the results with the
0FILL settings on crystal mark as a reference to what the drive can do with
compressible data.
OFILL
Settings
AS SSD Benchmark
AS SSD benchmark is a benchmarking tool
specifically designed to test SSDs. The application tests sequential reading
and writing performance, 4K random reading and writing performance.
AS SSD benchmark also tests 4K threaded
performance. This is very exciting, as this test is the first available test
that I am aware of, that simulates how a PC operating system actually works. A
modern PC and OS, such as Windows Vista/7 does not just run a single thread at
a time, it runs many threads. The AS SSD benchmark "4K 64Thrd" tests
run 64 threads simultaneously throughout the test. If this result is good, then
you can be pretty sure the drive will perform extremely well as a system drive.
After the tests complete, AS SSD benchmark
derives a total score for the drive being tested. This is based on all aspects
of the test results, and gives an indication of how the drive is performing
overall.
Now let’s look at the results for the
Kingston V300 240GB SSD in the form of a screenshot. All our other comparison
drives’ results are presented in the form of a graph.
Another impressive result for the Kingston V300
SSD in this test.
Summary:
The Kingston V300 SSD gives very steady,
and very impressive performance in all of our tests. It appears that Kingston
has done a very good job with the V300.
Let's head to the next page for our
IOMeter test results.....
I/O Performance
There is little point of having an SSD
drive that has blazing sustained reading and writing speeds, if the drive can't
handle reading and writing of small random files. If you intend to use your new
SSD drive to store and run your operating system, then the drive must be able
to cope with the many small random files that Windows will write to the drive
continually. So I feel it is very important to test how many of these random
files that a drive can handle in one second. I believe that anything over 1,000
I/O’s per second would be enough for most users running a consumer grade mainstream
PC, and should provide a smooth running system. But obviously, the more I/O's
that a drive can handle, the faster the drive will feel and leave more headroom
for those huge multitasking sessions that users sometimes engage in.
The things that I will look at are the
total I/O per second and total MB/s.
Partition alignment and sector boundaries
Windows 7 and Vista will automatically
align a partition to 4k boundaries during partition creation, Windows XP won’t.
It is imperative that an SSD’s partition is aligned. Windows XP is also
restricted to sector boundaries, while Windows 7 will use 4k boundaries if it
can. The Intel 510 is 4k boundary aware, and will use these boundaries if
possible. Of course it will also remap LBAs for compatibility with the sector
boundaries so that the drive can be used with Windows XP.
IOMeter allows us to set the sector
boundaries for conducting the tests, and I have therefore set the sector
boundaries at 4K, which means the IOMeter tests are valid for Windows 7 and
Windows Vista users. XP users will not be able to obtain such results.
I will provide a screenshot of the tests on
the review drive for those of you who like to see the actual test result. All
the comparison drive results are represented in the form of graphs.
If any of you would like to see a
screenshot from any IOMeter test on a particular drive, please feel free to
request one, and I’ll post the screenshot in the forum thread.
All the IOMeter tests create a 10GB data
set on the target drive, and each test is run for a duration of 3 minutes.
IOMeter 4K random write test with repeating data.
The first test involves creating continual
4KB random files on the target drive with IOMeter. I use a 4KB file size, as it
is believed that Windows will create and modify many of this size of file
constantly in the background during a typical Windows session. It is said that
most 4K random writes take place at a queue depth of only one, and I have been requested
to include this test in my reviews.
Queue depth 1
Kingston V300 240GB SSD – 4K random write (Queue depth1)
Queue depth 4
Kingston V300 240GB SSD (Queue depth 4)
Queue depth 32
Kingston V300 240GB SSD (Queue depth 32)
4K random write queue depth profile
For this
test I used various queue depths from 1 – 32 to give you an idea how this SSD
performs at different queue depths. For a normal desktop user, with lightweight
multitasking, the queue depth will rarely rise above 2. For heavy multitasking,
the queue depth is unlikely to rise above a value of 8.
Here we can take a more detailed view of how
the Kingston V300 SSD performs with various Queue Depths.
IOMeter 4K random read test.
If there are many 4k files created, then
that must also mean that many 4k files need to be read. This test measures 4k
reading performance.
It is said that most 4K random reads take
place at a queue depth of only one, and readers have requested that I include
this test in my reviews.
Queue depth 1
Kingston V300 240GB SSD (Queue depth 1)
Queue depth 4
Kingston V300 240GB SSD (Queue depth 4)
Queue depth 32
Kingston V300 240GB SSD (Queue depth 32)
4K random read queue depth profile.
This test
shows how the review drive scales with increasing queue depths.
Once again we can have a more detailed look
at the performance of the Kingston V300 SSD with various Queue Depths.
IOMeter 512KB write test with repeating data.
Sequential writing performance is also very
important; in this test sequential writing performance is measured.
Kingston V300 240GB SSD 512K Sequential write with repeating data
The result is very impressive, and the
Kingston V300 SSD was able to reach speeds of 530.77 MB/Sec.
IOMeter 512KB sequential write test with fully random
data.
This test
is almost exactly the same as the test above except that the test data is fully
random in nature. This test was requested as SandForce based SSDs gain a lot of
performance by being able to compress data on the fly. While the above test
shows the SandForce based SSDs in a best case scenario, the following test will
show the SandForce based SSDs in a more realistic light. In the real world, the
data is neither 100% incompressible nor 100% compressible, it is somewhere in
between. So please keep this in mind.
IOMeter 512KB read test.
This test measures 512k sequential reading
performance.
Kingston V300 240GB SSD – 512K sequential reading test
The Kingston V300 continues to be very
impressive, and gives a great result of 517.88 MB/Sec.
IOMeter Workstation simulation (outstanding I/Os = 64).
When running applications you will find
that there is a mixture of small random files and larger sequential files,
being created and read. Not only that, it isn’t just one file at a time. In
this test I measure a simulated workstation pattern, with a queue depth of 64
(threaded).
Kingston V300 240GB SSD – Workstation simulation
The Kingston V300 SSD again delivers a very
impressive result, and it was able to achieve a speed of 283.27MB/s.
Summary
The Kingston V300 SSD gave some very
impressive results on the IOMeter tests, which shows that Kingston has done a
very impressive job with the firmware of the drive. In the end, I can only be
impressed by the performance of the drive with sequential data.
Now let’s head to the next page where we
will look at how the Kingston V300 SSD performs using Anvil's Storage utilities....
Anvil’s Storage Utilities
As well as performing SSD endurance tests.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities has a very nice SSD benchmarking application. The SSD
benchmark tests many different aspects of SSD performance, including 4K random
at different queue depths, and also sequential performance, but more importantly
than this, all using real test data.
Another very nice feature of Anvil’s SSD
benchmark is the fact that you can change the compression levels of the test
data. The compression levels of the data sets used for the tests can be varied
from 0% compression right up to 100% compressed data, and there are even a few
data profiles already included, such as database (8%) compression, and also an
application profile (46%) compression, which is designed to simulate real
application data being read and written to the SSD.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities is still in beta
at the moment, but the application is currently solid enough to use in this
article, and I have already verified the results obtained using an SATA
analyser.
I will include a screenshot of the review
drive, and all comparison results will be presented in the form of graphs. If
you would like to see screenshots of the test results obtained on the other
SSDs in this article, you can do so by following the link here.
I will also be testing three different
compression profiles, which are as follows.
- 0 fill (100% compressible data)
- Application simulation profile (46%
compressed) - 100% (non compressible data)
So let’s begin the tests.
0 fill
Kingston V300 240GB SSD (0 fill)
Results
are based on the total highest score.
The Kingston V300 SSD gives a good result
in this test.
Application profile
Kingston V300 240GB SSD (application profile)
Results are based on the total highest score.
Again on the second test the Kingston V300 delivers
a good performance.
100% incompressible
Kingston V300 240GB SSD (100% incompressible)
Results are based on the total highest score.
In the last test the Kingston V300 is again
giving a good result.
Summary
Summarizing this test, we can clearly see
that the Kingston V300 is giving good performance, especially when we bear in
mind that the drive is designed to be an affordable upgrade.
Now let's head to the next page for some
real world tests....
It has become clear that simply conducting
endless benchmarks on SSD drives is pointless. Real users may run a few
benchmarks when they first fit their SSD drive, but most users just want a
drive that performs well in the real world. They want their drive to work
"out of the box" and work fast and smoothly.
Most of the latest SSD drives can deliver
very fast sustained reading and writing speeds, but these alone tell you very
little about how the drive will perform in the real world.
If you intend to use your SSD as your
primary system drive, with an operating system and applications installed and
running from the drive, real world performance becomes much more important than
just fast sequential read and write speeds, in this case I felt that it was
time to move into a different method of testing.
From now on I will only use the log files
from the event viewer to measure the startup and shutdown of the system, and
also use filecopy to measure all my copy tests from a ramdisk to the selected
storage drive that I would be testing.
Real world copy tests
I will now conduct some real world copy
tests so that you can have a much better view of how the drive will perform. In
these simple tests I try to simulate what a real user does with their drives. I
will be copying some mp3 files, various picture and MKV files, and finishing by
installing MS office 2007.
As I said earlier from now on all my test
files will be stored in a RamDisk and copied/pasted to the destination drive
using filecopy. The filecopy utility will be used from now on for all my tests,
and I’ll be using it this way to measure the time that it takes to copy the
files.
Before I move on to the test, I want to
give you an idea on how fast your RAM is. Below you can find the results.
As
we can clearly see speed isn’t going to be an issue in these tests.
Copy tests – 259 MP3 song files (1.36GB total)
Since I am starting from scratch I can say
that this is a very impressive result for the Kingston V300 SSD.
Copy tests – 3,377 JPEG picture files (2.56GB total)
Again the Kingston V300 is showing great
performance.
Copy Tests – 1 MKV and 1 SRT file (3.46GB)
Here we can see that the Kingston V300 wins
this test by a very small margin.
Windows start-up and closedown based on the Event Viewer
Logs
First Shutdown
The next two screen shots were taken after I'd
installed all the drivers and all the software that I use every day. Below are
the results.
Used
state boot time.
Used
state shutdown
Here is a quick look at how the V300 does
after some use. Notice that this time varies from system to system and it’s only
here as a reference for each drive.
PCMark Vantage - HDD Suite
For these tests we will be using
FutureMark’s PCMark Vantage. This suite of real world test applications is
highly regarded, as one of the most comprehensive ways of testing a computer’s
performance in the real world. The PCMark Vantage test application also
includes a HDD/SSD/USB Flash suite of testing procedures, designed to fully
test out the performance of an HDD/SSD to its limits.
PCMark Vantage HDD suite results
Kingston
V300 240GB SSD test results.
We can see that the Kingston V300 delivers
very good performance and below you can see the total score for the drive.
Installing applications
Installing applications is possibly
something you don't do that often. But should you replace your system disk,
then you will most likely have to re-install your applications. Most of the SSD
drives I have tested up until now are quite slow at installing applications,
most likely because their I/O performance was quite limited.
For these tests, we picked some popular
applications and copied the entire contents of the CD or DVD media to a Crucial
M4 256GB SSD. We did this to make sure that the reading speed of our CD/DVD
reader would not hamper the performance of the target drive.
We then installed these applications onto
our comparison HDD drives, which were all running mirror image installations of
our Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit installation, and timed the amount of time
taken to install the application with a stopwatch on each of the drives.
MS Office 2007 Enterprise (full install)
Now let’s see
how the V300 SSD performs with
the installation of MS Office 2007 Enterprise Edition.
The procedure
followed was very simple. I copied all the files from the CD to the Crucial M4
SSD and used the Crucial M4 as a source drive for the installation of MS Office
2007.
The Kingston V300 needed only two minutes
and fourteen seconds to complete the installation of Office 2007, another
impressive result.
Speed degradation after heavy testing
On this page I will test how the SSD
performs after heavy testing and usage.
I will run an AS SSD benchmark test when
the OS is freshly installed so that we can get a good view of how the drive
performs with the OS. After that I will fill the drive up to 50% of its
capacity, use the drive for a few days, and then re-run the AS SSD benchmark.
The same procedure will be followed once again, but this time the drive will be
filled close to 90% or higher of its capacity. To finish this test, I will
simply delete all the extra data and leave the PC idle for a few hours so that
the controller has the time to perform any necessary cleaning, then see how the
drive performs.
First run with the OS
With
the drive filled up to 50% of its capacity
Here
is the result with the drive having less than 5% free space.
Finally
the drive with only the OS and the applications that I originally installed.
After a week of everyday use I can clearly
say that Kingston V300 has given a very impressive performance. The V300 is a
drive that can maintain good performance even when it’s been pushed to its
limits. This shows all the good work that Kingston has done on the V300 SSD.
This concludes our review. To read the final
thoughts and conclusion, click the link below....
Conclusion:
Let us summarise the most important
positive and negative points below:
Positive:
- Excellent operation as a system drive.
- Very good sequential read/write speeds.
- SATA 6Gbps support.
- 7mm thick
- Outstanding contents inside the package.
- Good TRIM performance.
- 3 year warranty.
- Very affordable.
Negative:
- None
To sum up, this is what I would say:
Kingston’s V300 might not be a ground
breaking drive in terms of pure performance, but it does manage to give very
high performance at an affordable price, and that’s something that you have to
take into serious consideration when you are looking for an upgrade drive. The
drive comes with a three year warranty, it uses LSI’s Sandforce controller, and
has the legendary Kingston built quality. Kingston has also done an outstanding
job with the contents of the package, as inside the box you will everything
that you need to make your upgrade go as smoothly as it can possibly be.
One thing that needs to be remembered is
the excellent performance that the drive was able to achieve, as the V300 SSD
showed a very steady and reliable performance even when it was pushed beyond
the limits that a normal user would put the drive through. Kingston’s V300 SSD shows
how you can manufacture a solid state drive that is not only well built but
also very reliable.
What about the price? Well if you live in
Greece you can get the V300 240GB SSD for only 159 Euros, and that is a very enticing starting price, amazon.co.uk list the drive at £150
and finally on amazon.de the drive starts at 163 Euros. Clearly we can see that
the Kingston V300 offers great value for money.
The parting sentence is:
“Kingston’s V300 might not be a ground
breaking drive in terms of pure performance, but it does manage to give very
high performance at an affordable price, and that’s something that you have to
take under serious consideration when you are looking for an upgrade drive.”
I therefore give the 'Very Good' rating and
the “Editor's choice” award to the Kingston V300 SSD.
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