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 1GB file respectively.
AS SSD, as our first point of call, quickly shows the toggle NAND memory and SandForce combo that has been used in this series of drives gives low write speeds of 151.74MB/s. On the read performance side of things however, we do see that the SandForce controller is able to deliver well over the rated speed of 450MB/s.
It’s pricey at the moment probably because it hasn’t saturated the retail channel yet. You can easily find Kingston’s same capacity HyperX 3K going for a bit less. Hang on a while & it’s sure to drop in price. On another note Kingston always use that yucky green pcb on all of their DRAM modules, even the high end ones which can be easily noticed but on this drive they use a nicer looking blue pcb which should never be seen. Go figure.