Kingston SSD Now SATA 3 SSD Disk Testing Linux Intel Core i7-4770K testing of a Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB SATA 3.0 SSD against other Serial ATA hard drives and solid state drives. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Western Digital WD1600JS-00M 160GB: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0 + 160GB Western Digital WD1600JS-00M, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.13.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-3618ac4 saucy-oibaf-ppa+curaga) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0 150GB: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.13.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-3618ac4 saucy-oibaf-ppa+curaga) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Seagate ST3320620AS 320GB: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0 + 320GB Seagate ST3320620AS, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.13.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-3618ac4 saucy-oibaf-ppa+curaga) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Western Digital WD10EARS-00M 1000GB: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EARS-00M, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.13.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-3618ac4 saucy-oibaf-ppa+curaga) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 OCZ Solid 2 60GB: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0 + 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.13.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-3618ac4 saucy-oibaf-ppa+curaga) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 OCZ Vertex 2 60GB: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0 + 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.13.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-3618ac4 saucy-oibaf-ppa+curaga) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 OCZ VERTEX3 240GB: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0 + 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.13.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-3618ac4 saucy-oibaf-ppa+curaga) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 KINGSTON SV300S3 120GB: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 150GB Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0 + 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.13.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.99, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0-devel (git-3618ac4 saucy-oibaf-ppa+curaga) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Kingston_sv300_120GB: Processor: Intel Core i5-2410M @ 2.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 1621, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 120GB KINGSTON SV300S3 + 500GB Hitachi HTS72505, Graphics: Intel HD 3000 (1200MHz), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection + Broadcom BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless OS: openSUSE 13.1, Kernel: 3.13.6-1.g4727218-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.12.3, Display Server: X Server 1.15.0, Display Driver: intel 2.99.910, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1600JS-00M 160GB .. 35.20 |=== Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0 150GB .. 67.87 |====== Seagate ST3320620AS 320GB ........... 31.33 |=== Western Digital WD10EARS-00M 1000GB . 21.73 |== OCZ Solid 2 60GB .................... 103.07 |========= OCZ Vertex 2 60GB ................... 228.67 |=================== OCZ VERTEX3 240GB ................... 325.12 |============================ KINGSTON SV300S3 120GB .............. 224.67 |=================== Kingston_sv300_120GB ................ 387.50 |================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1600JS-00M 160GB .. 16.77 |== Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0 150GB .. 30.17 |==== Seagate ST3320620AS 320GB ........... 18.50 |== Western Digital WD10EARS-00M 1000GB . 13.03 |== OCZ Solid 2 60GB .................... 61.00 |======== OCZ Vertex 2 60GB ................... 179.83 |======================= OCZ VERTEX3 240GB ................... 253.00 |================================= KINGSTON SV300S3 120GB .............. 105.60 |============== Kingston_sv300_120GB ................ 238.73 |=============================== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 1 MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1600JS-00M 160GB .. 12.00 |= Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0 150GB .. 18.47 |== Seagate ST3320620AS 320GB ........... 17.49 |= Western Digital WD10EARS-00M 1000GB . 8.68 |= OCZ Solid 2 60GB .................... 51.54 |==== OCZ VERTEX3 240GB ................... 397.74 |================================= KINGSTON SV300S3 120GB .............. 75.79 |====== Kingston_sv300_120GB ................ 251.85 |===================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1600JS-00M 160GB .. 56.87 |==== Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0 150GB .. 131.21 |========= Seagate ST3320620AS 320GB ........... 61.53 |==== Western Digital WD10EARS-00M 1000GB . 105.67 |======= OCZ Solid 2 60GB .................... 126.38 |========= OCZ Vertex 2 60GB ................... 255.33 |================= OCZ VERTEX3 240GB ................... 370.11 |========================= KINGSTON SV300S3 120GB .............. 362.02 |========================= Kingston_sv300_120GB ................ 487.27 |================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1600JS-00M 160GB .. 0.32 |= Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0 150GB .. 0.59 |= Seagate ST3320620AS 320GB ........... 0.32 |= Western Digital WD10EARS-00M 1000GB . 0.23 |= OCZ Solid 2 60GB .................... 0.92 |== OCZ Vertex 2 60GB ................... 11.49 |========================= OCZ VERTEX3 240GB ................... 15.48 |================================== KINGSTON SV300S3 120GB .............. 1.45 |=== Kingston_sv300_120GB ................ 11.73 |========================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1600JS-00M 160GB .. 0.28 |= Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0 150GB .. 0.38 |= Seagate ST3320620AS 320GB ........... 0.32 |= Western Digital WD10EARS-00M 1000GB . 0.17 | OCZ Solid 2 60GB .................... 0.89 |== OCZ Vertex 2 60GB ................... 11.24 |========================= OCZ VERTEX3 240GB ................... 15.03 |================================== KINGSTON SV300S3 120GB .............. 1.44 |=== Kingston_sv300_120GB ................ 11.60 |========================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1600JS-00M 160GB . 0.32 |= Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0 150GB . 0.59 |= OCZ Solid 2 60GB ................... 0.92 |== OCZ VERTEX3 240GB .................. 14.66 |=================================== KINGSTON SV300S3 120GB ............. 1.46 |=== Kingston_sv300_120GB ............... 9.24 |====================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1600JS-00M 160GB . 0.34 |= Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0 150GB . 0.52 |= OCZ Solid 2 60GB ................... 0.94 |== OCZ VERTEX3 240GB .................. 14.49 |=================================== KINGSTON SV300S3 120GB ............. 1.46 |==== Kingston_sv300_120GB ............... 9.74 |======================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1600JS-00M 160GB .. 173.30 |========= Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0 150GB .. 305.89 |================ Seagate ST3320620AS 320GB ........... 256.40 |============== Western Digital WD10EARS-00M 1000GB . 298.00 |================ OCZ Solid 2 60GB .................... 343.84 |================== OCZ Vertex 2 60GB ................... 506.99 |=========================== OCZ VERTEX3 240GB ................... 621.24 |================================= KINGSTON SV300S3 120GB .............. 617.56 |================================= Kingston_sv300_120GB ................ 508.89 |=========================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD1600JS-00M 160GB .. 145.83 |============== Western Digital WD1500HLHX-0 150GB .. 214.71 |==================== Seagate ST3320620AS 320GB ........... 186.61 |================= Western Digital WD10EARS-00M 1000GB . 186.76 |================= OCZ Solid 2 60GB .................... 221.01 |===================== OCZ Vertex 2 60GB ................... 319.72 |============================== OCZ VERTEX3 240GB ................... 342.84 |================================ KINGSTON SV300S3 120GB .............. 353.54 |================================= Kingston_sv300_120GB ................ 219.22 |====================