Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB SATA 3.0 SSD

For delivering some Linux-based EXT4-formatted results for the Kingston SSDNow V300 Serial ATA 3.0 solid-state drive it was tested on an Intel Core i7 4770K "Haswell" system running Ubuntu Linux with the Linux 3.13 kernel and the EXT4 file-system was used during testing. The drives we compared the Kingston SSDNow V300 performance to included the Western Digital WD1600JS-00M 160GB, Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0 150GB, Seagate ST3320620AS 320GB, Western Digital WD10EARS-00M 1000GB, OCZ Solid 2 60GB, OCZ Vertex 2 60GB, and OCZ VERTEX3 240GB. The selection of comparison drives was limited by what was on hand; SSD/HDD testing isn't one of our major focuses at Phoronix when it comes to Linux hardware and this was a disk drive I had purchased as opposed to a review sample.

For those interested in the eight SSD/HDD disk drive benchmarks from the Linux 3.13 kernel on Ubuntu with an EXT4 file-system, the results are on the following pages. If you wish to compare your own system's performance to these disk results straight away, just install the Phoronix Test Suite and run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1401218-PL-DISKTESTI87.