Kingston SSDNow V Series 40GB SSD Review

Read Bandwidth

For this benchmark, HDTach was used. It shows the potential read speed which you are likely to experience with these hard drives. The long test was run to give a slightly more accurate picture.

We don’t put much stock in Burst speed readings and this goes double for SSD based drives. The main reason we include it is to show what under perfect conditions a given drive is capable of; but the more important number is the Average Speed number. This number will tell you what to expect from a given drive in normal, day to day operations. The higher the average the faster your entire system will seem.


Well one thing is for certain: this drive’s controller may only have 5 channels working, but that doesn’t stop it from posting some very good read speeds. Of course we have seen earlier models which (for their time) also posted great read speeds but have failed the test of time. If the write numbers are not too, too bad this drive may just be able to pull off some decent real world test results.

Write Performance

For this benchmark HD Tune Pro was used. To run the write benchmark on a drive, you must first remove all partitions from that drive and then and only then will it allow you to run this test. Unlike some other benchmarking utilities the HD Tune Pro writes across the full area of the drive, thus it easily shows any weakness a drive may have.


There is no getting around the fact that these numbers stink. However, when looking at them you really do have to keep in mind that even though it is priced like a last generation drive, it still outperforms them in the all important minimum speed area. What separates a good SSD from a terrible one is stuttering, or to be more precise LACK of stutter and this drive's minimum number do offer it a chance at redemption. For now we are going to keep an open mind about this drive as raw performance doesn't always equate great real world performance.