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I'm going to link pictures of my emails with Kingston about this but I'm going to just go over some things before you read it. So I was looking through my twitter feed and I saw Newegg advertising the Kingston v300 and I was annoyed. I personally have that SSD and on CrystalDisk I get lower than half the advertised speed on that SSD. Then, even with me using vulgar language Kingston responded to me on twitter saying that they'll redirect me to an SSD specialist. So I did and he said something about compressing or something (I'm not really good with data terms) and that's why I'm asking you guys to tell me what did that specialist is actually saying. Is he speaking of the truth and that their speeds can't be truly read by CrystalDisk or is he just spewing random bullshit so I wont complain about their SSD ever again? 

 

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V300s are slower than advertised.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7763/an-update-to-kingston-ssdnow-v300-a-switch-to-slower-micron-nand

 

As for CrystalDiskMark not being accurate, I'm not sure, but the V300 has known speed issues because of a unannounced switch to Micron NAND.

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I don't remember if the SSD has compression or not but if it does then testing non-compressible data should only yield at most a 15% performance loss not 50%. Kingston swapped out the NAND in the V300 to NAND that's half the speed without telling anybody. The old bait and switch tacit.

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V300s are slower than advertised.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7763/an-update-to-kingston-ssdnow-v300-a-switch-to-slower-micron-nand

 

As for CrystalDiskMark not being accurate, I'm not sure, but the V300 has known speed issues because of a unannounced switch to Micron NAND.

 

I can vouch for this I in fact have 4 v300s

2 are from before the unannounced NAND switch and 2 are from after and holy shit what a difference. Like saturating a 6gb/s lane to being around 300 mB/s :( really a shame they were so cheap and I liked them so much... oh well.

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Try ATTO. Crystalmark is old and uses uncompressed data where ATTO is compressed.

 

 

I'm going to link pictures of my emails with Kingston about this but I'm going to just go over some things before you read it. So I was looking through my twitter feed and I saw Newegg advertising the Kingston v300 and I was annoyed. I personally have that SSD and on CrystalDisk I get lower than half the advertised speed on that SSD. Then, even with me using vulgar language Kingston responded to me on twitter saying that they'll redirect me to an SSD specialist. So I did and he said something about compressing or something (I'm not really good with data terms) and that's why I'm asking you guys to tell me what did that specialist is actually saying. Is he speaking of the truth and that their speeds can't be truly read by CrystalDisk or is he just spewing random bullshit so I wont complain about their SSD ever again? 

 

If your unfamiliar with imgur, simply click on the images to enlarge them because the text is too small not to.

http://imgur.com/a/6PiIF

 

Yup atto is the way to go. here is a pic of two of the original v300s running in RAID 0

 

EDIT: this is after quite a bit of use and they're about 3/4 filled 

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I'm going to link pictures of my emails with Kingston about this but I'm going to just go over some things before you read it. So I was looking through my twitter feed and I saw Newegg advertising the Kingston v300 and I was annoyed. I personally have that SSD and on CrystalDisk I get lower than half the advertised speed on that SSD. Then, even with me using vulgar language Kingston responded to me on twitter saying that they'll redirect me to an SSD specialist. So I did and he said something about compressing or something (I'm not really good with data terms) and that's why I'm asking you guys to tell me what did that specialist is actually saying. Is he speaking of the truth and that their speeds can't be truly read by CrystalDisk or is he just spewing random bullshit so I wont complain about their SSD ever again? 

 

If your unfamiliar with imgur, simply click on the images to enlarge them because the text is too small not to.

http://imgur.com/a/6PiIF

funny you mension this i was just riping them a new one on twitter and they got back to me with bs about the controller being optimized for compressed files

 

look at the speeds i get compared to my new 3tb wd green , sad isnt it 

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funny you mension this i was just riping them a new one on twitter and they got back to me with bs about the controller being optimized for compressed files

 

look at the speeds i get compared to my new 3tb wd green , sad isnt it 

Well.....that's just plain fucked up.

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Well.....that's just plain fucked up.

ikr ,and i did it again this time after compressing all my files down (i needed the space anyways) and the results were pretty much the same :/ sigh , remind me to buy Samsung next time 

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ikr ,and i did it again this time after compressing all my files down (i needed the space anyways) and the results were pretty much the same :/ sigh , remind me to buy Samsung next time 

840's slow down after a while, so don't buy them (I'm not sure about 850's).

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840's slow down after a while, so don't buy them (I'm not sure about 850's).

Pro's don't... I have a few 256GB 840 Pro's, bought new, still rocking 548/518 rates with only 30-40gb free on each,...But guessing your talking about the normal ones.

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