Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB SATA 3.0 SSD

Lastly, with the initial create task in Compile Bench the performance out of the KINGSTON SV300S3 120GB on Ubuntu with the Linux 3.13 kernel was on par with the OCZ Vertex 3 SSD.

At the end of the day there isn't anything special about the Kingston SSDNow V300's performance. The Serial ATA 3.0 solid-state drive understandably did much better than the different HDDs that were tossed into the performance mix, but among the SSDs this economy-grade SSD isn't anything special. The advantage of this SSD though is its lower price compared to many others on the market -- the KINGSTON SV300S3 was obtained for less than $90 USD with a 120GB capacity. That's the short story for those thinking about buying a Kingston SSDNow V300 drive for Linux use: it works fine on Linux, its performance is okay for an SSD, and the price is low.

To compare your own system's Linux disk performance against these eight drives install the Phoronix Test Suite and run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1401218-PL-DISKTESTI87. It's as easy as that for fully automated and reproducible testing. It's also getting even easier and more interesting with PTS 5.0-Plavsk.