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So I email Kingston support regarding the slow read/write speeds of there v300 series after reading the Anandtech review page. http://anandtech.com/show/7763/an-update-to-kingston-ssdnow-v300-a-switch-to-slower-micron-nand
This was the response I got from support:
The reason why we want you to run ATTO is because some bench marking software i.e., CrystalDiskMark, AS SSD will not provide accurate information for Sandforce based drives due to the drive's getting a lot of it's speed from compressing data. Crystal Disk and AS SSD uses incompressed data during its testing. The data cannot be compressed further so much without the write speed being affected. Because both of these benchmarks use fully incompressible data they are nowhere near a real world workload for typical desktop-notebook computing.
ATTO disk benchmark uses uncompressed data. So the Sandforce drives can perform its compression and thus the increased speed of this drive is reflected in the benchmark. It is also the program used by our engineering staff to document the speed ratings for the these drives during testing.
If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to reply to this e-mail with full email history. Thank you for using Kingston on-line technical support.
Regards,
Julio C Andrade
Kingston Technology
Technical Support
Is this true or a marking ploy?
This was the response I got from support:
The reason why we want you to run ATTO is because some bench marking software i.e., CrystalDiskMark, AS SSD will not provide accurate information for Sandforce based drives due to the drive's getting a lot of it's speed from compressing data. Crystal Disk and AS SSD uses incompressed data during its testing. The data cannot be compressed further so much without the write speed being affected. Because both of these benchmarks use fully incompressible data they are nowhere near a real world workload for typical desktop-notebook computing.
ATTO disk benchmark uses uncompressed data. So the Sandforce drives can perform its compression and thus the increased speed of this drive is reflected in the benchmark. It is also the program used by our engineering staff to document the speed ratings for the these drives during testing.
If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to reply to this e-mail with full email history. Thank you for using Kingston on-line technical support.
Regards,
Julio C Andrade
Kingston Technology
Technical Support
Is this true or a marking ploy?
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