Kingston SSDnow M2 SATA 120GB Solid State Drive Review

AS SSD

The AS SSD software determines the performance of Solid State Drives (SSD). The tool contains five synthetic and three practice tests. The synthetic tests determine the sequential and random read and write performance of the SSD. These tests are performed without using the operating system caches. In Sequential tests, the program measures the time it takes to read and write a 1 GB file respectively. To give a clearer picture of the drives tested, I’ve chosen to include all tests. Special the copy test is one that I think is relevant on the consumer level as it gives the user a view into one of the operations he’s going to do many times.

Unconditioned

Conditioned

Drive Performance

The straight line continues as the Kingston M.2 SATA solid state drive speeds through the AS SSD benchmarks with average speeds of 506MB/s reading and 333MB/s writing.

Drive Comparison

It hasn’t been that long since I’ve re-introduced the AS SSD tests, so the drive comparison chart isn’t as long as on some of the other tests. We see the Kingston M.2 SATA drive come in somewhat further down the list here, but the differences are small and the drive impresses with these figures on a 120GB drive.