As an IT Professional, I can attest to that just about ANY solid state drive is a significant upgrade from a traditional hard disk drive (in terms of access/boot times and file read/write speed), and this particular model is no exception to that. I installed the drive over 2 months ago, ran a clean install of windows, and I have not had any crashes or failures so far. The difference is very noticeable and it is well worth the price. My only real complaint is that, with most of the tests I ran, the specs didn't benchmark as high as the product's website claimed they would. I was only able to achieve the advertised speeds with ATTO Disk Benchmark Utility for larger file transfers. Regardless, it works well and it's fast, so only those enthusiasts trying to maximize performance and who are willing to pay a little extra to achieve it should look elsewhere. For everyone else, this is a solid, reliable SSD and a significant upgrade from a standard HDD.
For the more technical-minded individuals out there, I have included below benchmark information from the tests I ran. All tests were performed with SSD connected to SATA 3.0 controller, with up-to-date drivers, on a system with the following build:
SSD - Kingston HyperX 3K 120 GB SATA III SH103S3/120G
MOBO - ASUS P8H77-I
CPU - Intel Core i3-3220T
RAM - G.SKILL F3-17000CL11D-8GBXL (2x4GB)
OS - Windows 7 Professional SP1 64bit
GPU - EVGA GeForce GTX 680 4096 MB GDDR5 (04G-P4-2686-KR)
PSU - Corsair Builder Series CX 600 Watt ATX/EPS 80 PLUS (CX600)
(Advertised speed is 555MB/s Read and 510MB/s Write)
CrystalDiskMark v3.0.3b:
425.7/172.6 MB/s Seq Read/Write
393.2/172.9 MB/s 512K Read/Write
23.93/90.23 MB/s 4K Read/Write
124.7/166.9 MB/s 4K QD32 Read/Write
AS SSD BENCHMARK v1.64:
444.07/1117.32 MB/s Seq Read/Write
22.33/72.40 MB/s 4K Read/Write
123.90/114.39 MB/s 4K-64Thrd Read/Write
0.189/0.214 ms Read/Write Access Time
HD TUNE v2.55:
239.6 MB/s Minimum Transfer Rate
383.9 MB/s Maximum Transfer Rate
299.6 MB/s Average Transfer Rate
0.2 ms Access Time
ATTO Disk Benchmark Utility v2.47:
16.6/14.9 MB/s 0.5k Read/Write
32.9/25.7 MB/s 1k Read/Write
64.2/61.4 MB/s 2k Read/Write
124.9/243.3 MB/s 4k Read/Write
207.0/293.6 MB/s 8k Read/Write
303.8/387.8 MB/s 16k Read/Write
372.8/451.8 MB/s 32k Read/Write
426.9/502.5 MB/s 64k Read/Write
477.5/513.5 MB/s 128k Read/Write
524.8/524.8 MB/s 256k Read/Write
540.5/526.3 MB/s 512k Read/Write
550.3/526.3 MB/s 1024k Read/Write
555.4/528.9 MB/s 2048k Read/Write
554.1/531.6 MB/s 4096k Read/Write
554.1/525.1 MB/s 8192k Read/Write
| Standing screen display size | 2.5 Inches |
|---|---|
| RAM | 122880 MB |
| Hard Drive | 120 GB Solid State Drive |
