Will I see noticeable speed differences?

[Scionyde]

I'm building an office/very light gaming PC for my parents for Christmas, and perhaps I was a little too hasty in ordering parts. I saw a 120GB Kingston V300 for 80 bucks, so I bought it since it had a pretty high customer review rating, and good professional reviews. It finally arrived today, and I happened to be doing some more reading about it, when I started noticing topics like these:

 

http://www.overclock.net/t/1380526/kingston-v300-help

 

Seems like quite a few people are getting much slower speeds with their 5.0.6 version compared to the 5.0.5 version (seq read speeds in the 170-180 MB/s range compared to an advertised 400+) Looking at my packaging, it looks like I have the 5.0.6 version.

 

Kingston doesn't seem to have any firmware updates available, and people apparently have been having these issues since April. I'm thinking about returning it - my parents won't mind receiving their xmas gift a bit later. However, I live 3 hours away, and I was hoping to have this wrapped up while I was home for the holidays. I should note that I haven't opened this SSD yet to try it, but of the several forum topics I've seen about this SSD, nobody with the 5.0.6 version has shown up to say their speeds were as advertised. 

 

Assuming the SSD I got matches the benchmarks in the forum topic I posted, how will it do as a boot drive for the OS? Because of the geographic complications listed above, I'm still debating whether I'd return it or just suck it up...

[Hans Christian | Teri]

If your SSD doesn't perform as advertised just RMA it and get a new one.

[TechSage]

You will always hear about the ones that fuck up, the ones that work, are gone having fun elsewhere

[Scionyde]

Yeah, I guess I'll wait and see how things look tomorrow when I put everything together...Normally, if I was building a rig for myself I'd return it without a second thought. But the fact that I live so far from my parents makes the thought of driving that distance to work on the computer again is kinda unappealing. >_<

[brob]

I noticed reading the thread you linked that the test writing compressed data, i.e. real world writes, shows expected performance - 480 MB/s. Writing uncompressed data on any SSD is going to result in substantially slower writes.

[LogicalDrm]

V300 is made for regular people. Its not high end like HyperX ones but its still SSD. It will perform better than hdd. Imo $80 (if thats US) is bit high price for 120gb drive. That price would get HyperX model here (100€ /w tax). Speeds what they advertise are mostly theoretical and so compared to actual ones bit overboard.