Kingston V300 "slow"?

[arvark]

People talk about it as it's slower than HDD etc. But MAN! It's so god damn fast! I just upgraded from a WD Green to it (it was a gift) and it's so freaking FAST!

[AlwaysFSX]

Well to be fair a Green is pretty bad speed wise.

[SeanBond]

People talk about it as it's slower than HDD etc. But MAN! It's so god damn fast! I just upgraded from a WD Green to it (it was a gift) and it's so freaking FAST!

If someone says it's slower than a hard drive that is an exaggeration. Regardless though, it is by far the biggest piece of crap ssd money can buy. It has sequntial reads and writes similiar to very high performance hard drives with much better random reads and writes. Basically pick and random ssd off the internet and it will be nearly or more than twice as fast. 

[JustChilliing]

It's faster than a HDD, but slow in terms of SSDs.

[beach_boy98]

Wd black vs v300. No challenge for it.

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/163049-ssd-slower-than-1-tb-wd-black/

[pwn_intended]

It is my understanding that there were a couple of different revisions of the actual controller and stuff on board the v300 without Kingston actually changing the SKU. Some of them were decent, and others were slow. Sneaky bastards...

 

At the end of the day, even the crappiest SATA3 SSD will run circles around any HDD in terms of practical performance.

[OAcesync]

Benchmarks?

[OAcesync]

It is my understanding that there were a couple of different revisions of the actual controller and stuff on board the v300 without Kingston actually changing the SKU. Some of them were decent, and others were slow. Sneaky bastards...

 

At the end of the day, even the crappiest SATA3 SSD will run circles around any HDD in terms of practical performance.

The V300 can actually be slower than a WD Black in terms of sequential write speeds

[pwn_intended]

The V300 can actually be slower than a WD Black in terms of sequential write speeds

I get that, but sequential write speeds are a fairly irrelevant metric for everyday use. Random read/write speeds are what makes a computer feel snappier, sequential write allows you to copy really large files faster. Certainly useful if being used for rendering/encoding, but outside of that, not too relevant in everyday use.

[Columbo]

It's the worst of the name brand SSD's. Very slow.

 

http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Kingston-SSDNow-V300-240GB/Rating/1817