Kingston SSDNow V310 960GB SSD Review

By Nathan Kirsch August 4, 2014

The SSD Benchmark Test System

Before we look at the numbers, lets take a brief look at the test system that was used. All testing was done on a fresh install of Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit and benchmarks were completed on the desktop with no other software programs running. Windows has the power option set to high performance.

Intel Z97 Test System

The Intel Z97 platform that we used to test the M.2 PCIe SSD was based around the ASUS Z97-A motherboard with BIOS 1008 that came out on 5/29/2014. The Corsair Dominator Platinum 8GB 2133MHz memory kit was set to XMP 1.3 memory profile settings, which is 1.65v with 9-11-11-31 2T memory timings. The Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB SSD was used as the primary drive (uses 19nm NAND and M310 firmware).

Intel Z97 Test Bench

Intel LGA 1150 Test Platform
Component	Brand/Model	Live Pricing
Processor	Core i7 4770k	Click Here
Motherboard	ASUS Z97-A	Click Here
Memory	Corsair Platinum 2133MHz 8GB	Click Here
OS Drive	Corsair Neutron 240GB	Click Here
Power Supply	Corsair AX860i	Click Here
Operating System	Windows 8.1 Pro 64-Bit	Click Here

CrystalDiskInfo 6.1.14 Readout:

The readout on CrystalDiskInfo 6.1.14 shows that the Kingston SSDNow V310 960GB SSD supports S.M.A.R.T., APM, NCQ, and TRIM. The firmware version that we are running at the time of testing on the drive was S8FM07.6.

v310-960gb-info

The Kingston SSDNow V310 960GB drive (1GB byte = 1,000,000,000 bytes) drive yields 894Gib (1Gib = 1,073,741,824 bytes) to the user after over provisioning and Windows formatting have their share.

Kingston V310 960GB Capacity

Let’s have a look at the performance!