Kingston V in RAID 0

[ChaosMaster]

Hi, I was wondering if the Kingston V series were any good. I've seen the new ones going for cheap, less than $100 for 32GB and $169 for 64GB. Now I know that the original V series were pieces of crap. No other word for it. But my friend recently told me that Kingston has upgraded their V series, and that they are decent now. So I was thinking getting 2 32GB and raid0 them. Would it be faster than say a SanForce 1200 based SSD? Would getting 2x64GB be much faster?

I've heard that SandForce latest controller were the fastest out there, but cost an arm and leg. Would raid 0 allow faster speeds? Or are Kingston's still duds?

[notking]

Originally Posted by ChaosMaster

Hi, I was wondering if the Kingston V series were any good. I've seen the new ones going for cheap, less than $100 for 32GB and $169 for 64GB. Now I know that the original V series were pieces of crap. No other word for it. But my friend recently told me that Kingston has upgraded their V series, and that they are decent now. So I was thinking getting 2 32GB and raid0 them. Would it be faster than say a SanForce 1200 based SSD? Would getting 2x64GB be much faster?

I've heard that SandForce latest controller were the fastest out there, but cost an arm and leg. Would raid 0 allow faster speeds? Or are Kingston's still duds?

Kingston SSD V 30GB should be a good choice to do RAID 0. According to techradar.com review, " A pair of SNV125-S2s will spew out data at a scarcely believable 383MB/s – much faster than an X25-M. Write performance is admittedly more modest at 113MB/s, but it's still quicker than the Intel drive. The snag once again, though, is random performance, which is well behind what a single Intel drive can achieve. "(http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-...-687710/review)

The read/write speed is more than doubled since its original speed is 180/50 MB/s. And the point is you can get this speed with friendly price.

[theDarkHorse]

The new Kingston drives are better than the original V shitbags. I think they're on par with the Indilinx drives from memory, in terms of sequential read/writes and also random read/writes.

That being said, I'd get a single Sandforce 60GB over 2x 30GB Kingstons any day; the random 4K read+writes and IOPS of the Sandforce drive kick all but the Intel drives to the gutter, and that's what has the impact on real-world performance.

One of these Vertex 2 60GB's should do the trick: http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?...ducts_id=14670

[ChaosMaster]

Cheers guys. Any idea's on the 64GB version though? In terms of dollars per GB it's better than both the 30gb and the vertex. It's also claims to be faster than the 30GB, by how much and if it's faster than the vertex I'm not sure.

[theDarkHorse]

Originally Posted by ChaosMaster

Cheers guys. Any idea's on the 64GB version though? In terms of dollars per GB it's better than both the 30gb and the vertex. It's also claims to be faster than the 30GB, by how much and if it's faster than the vertex I'm not sure.

It's not faster than the Vertex 2. At that size, nothing is faster than the Sandforce drives.