Kingston SSDNow V Series 40GB SSD Review

Real World Data Transfers

No matter how good a synthetic benchmark like IOMeter or PCMark is, it can not really tell you how your hard drive will perform in “real world” situations. All of us here at Hardware Canucks strive to give you the best, most complete picture of a review item’s true capabilities and to this end we will be running timed data transfers to give you a general idea of how its performance relates to real life use. To help replicate worse case scenarios we will transfer a 4.00GB contiguous RAR file and a folder containing 49 subfolders with a total 2108 files varying in length from 20mb to 1kb (1.00 GB total).

Testing will include transfer to and transferring from the devices, timing each process individually to provide an approximate Read and Write performance. To then stress the dive even more we will then make a copy of the large file to another portion of the same drive and then repeat the process with the small one. This will test the drive to its limits as it will be reading and writing simultaneously. Here is what we found.


To put is simply: the large file copy results are atrocious. It didn’t matter if it was reading to the SSDNow V, reading from it or even copying the data to itself from itself; the numbers all stank like three month old broccoli. In its defense when you are talking about data transfers totaling more than 10% of its (formatted) storage capacity, some allowances can be made. Honestly, the only saving grace in these particular tests were once again the small file performance results. If one was in an unforgiving mode you could call these results “mediocre”; but we think that would be overly harsh as this (relatively) inexpensive drive is up against some heavy hitters, be they Solid State or spindle based drives.