Kingston SSDNow V100 vs. Patriot Torqx 2 128 GB SSD Review
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As you will have gathered from the previous page, we measured the performance of each drive using four different programs: AS SSD, CrystalDiskMark, HD Tune, and PCMark 7. We will be looking at the test results from each program in the order they appear in the list above, dedicating a separate page to each test.
It’s important to note that we connected the SSDs to a SATA-600 port on our motherboard rather than a SATA-300 port which could cause performance limitations. We used default configuration in AS SSD for our tests.
In both the sequential read and write tests using AS SSD, both drives exhibited similar performance. Even though the Kingston drive showed a slight lead in both tests, this was less than the 3% error margin that we adopt.
The performance of the drives differed in the Random Read 4 KB test where the Patriot unit performed around 22% better than the Kingston in the read test and 7% better in the write test.
Access time is the time taken for the storage device to start delivering data after the computer has requested it; so the shorter the access time, the better.
In the read test, the Kingston drive performed about 17% better than the Patriot, but in the write test, the Patriot came out on top with a performance lead of 24 percent.