Low-cost 120 GiB SSD duel: SanDisk SSD PLUS vs. Kingston SSDNow V300

Incompressible Data Test

For this test, we set CrystalDiskMark to the default mode, which uses incompressible data.

On the sequential read test, the SanDisk SSD PLUS 120 GiB was 15% faster than the Kingston SSDNow V300.

On the sequential write test, the SSD PLUS beat the V300 by 81%.

On the random read test with 512 kiB blocks, the model from Kingston was 25% faster than the SanDisk’s.

 On the random write test with 512 kiB blocks, the SanDisk SSD PLUS was 125% faster than the V300.

On the random read test with 4 kiB blocks, the Kingston V300 was 71% faster than the SSD PLUS.

On the random write test with 4 kiB blocks, both models performed the same way.

On the random read test with 4 kiB blocks and queue depth of 32, the SSD PLUS was 73% faster than the V300.

On the random write test with 4 kiB blocks and queue depth of 32, the SSD from SanDisk was 219% faster than the V300.