Kingston SSDNow V100 vs. Patriot Torqx 2 128 GB SSD Review

CrystalDiskMark

We used CrystalDiskMark’s default configuration for our tests, which benchmarked each SSD using a file size of 1000 MB with five test runs. Please continue reading to see the results.

In the CrystalDiskMark sequential read and write tests, both drives exhibited similar performance again. The Kingston drive only achieved a 1.7% performance lead in the read test, and the Patriot drive only achieved a 1.9% performance lead in the write test. Both of these figures are within our 3% error margin.

In the random read test, the Kingston drive achieved 22% better performance than the Patriot, and in the random write test it achieved 19% better performance.

During the random read and write tests using 4 KB blocks, the Patriot drive regained the performance lead, beating the Kingston drive by 16% in the read test and a massive 58% in the write test.