Kingston SSDNow V+200 120GB SSD Review

ATTO & AS-SSD Benchmarks

ATTO v2.41

ATTO is one of the oldest drive benchmarks still being used today and is still very relevant in the SSD world. ATTO measures transfers across a specific volume length. It measures raw transfer rates for both reads and writes and places the data into graphs that can be very easily interpreted. The test was run with the default runs of 0.5kb through 8192kb transfer sizes with the total length being 256mb.

ATTO – Intel P67 Platform

Benchmark Results: A bit of a surprise here as Kingston lists the max read/write specifications of the V+200 as 535MB/s and 480MB/s respectively; however, the max scores we see here exceed that by quite a large margin hitting 552MB/s reads and just shy of 515MB/s in the writes. Nice.

This test employs compressible data showing the best case scenario in terms of data throughput for the SandForce drives. Let’s have a look at a few others that use incompressible data to see how that impacts the scores.

AS-SSD (1.6.4237.30508) Benchmark – Intel P67 Platform

We have been running the AS-SSD Benchmark app for over some time now and found that it gives a broad result set. The programmer has worked very hard on this software and continues to make updates often so if you use it, show him some love and send him a donation. There are now three tests that are found within the tool and we’ll show the results from all of them.

Benchmark Results: This is one benchmark where SandForce drives always take a bit of a nosedive due to the incompressible nature of the data employed by the benchmark. Usually we see this mostly on the write scores but the reads suffer here as well which is likely attributable to the asynchronous NAND since it follows a similar pattern to other drives with the same.

Benchmark Results: This graph is typical of a SandForce drive with asynchronous NAND. Often we see the writes scale up as data compressibility increases but on the V+200 we see the reads follow suit.