Kingston 80GB SSDNow M Series Drive Review

CrystalDiskMark v2.2

CrystalDiskMark is a small HDD benchmark utility for your hard drive that enables you to rapidly measure sequential and random read/write speeds.

100MB Files Test:

50MB Files Test:

Benchmark Results: With Crystal Mark v2.2 run with both a file size of 50MB and 100MB, a slight performance difference can be observed. The Kingston SNM125-S2/80GB SSD was shown to have a read speed of 250MB/s and a write speed of 80MB/s in CRystal Mark v2.2!

50MB Files Test Comparison Chart: The Kingston SNM125-S2/80GB SSD was able to pull out the win in the seq read test, but lost out to the other drives in the rest of the benchmarks.