Kingston V S2 64Gb - performance concern

kingwahwah · 4 Aug 2010 at 14:35

hi,

Delivered yesterday. Set AHCI on MB Gigabyte P55M-UD2, Installed WIN7 x64 (default drivers), few apps. Pagefile on it. 35% free.

Whats up with 4K and access times? Its the poorest I've seen on this site!

Thanks
G

kingwahwah · 4 Aug 2010 at 14:59

Also ran HDtune Pro but got odd results. When I ran after install i was getting 200mb/s read, Today I get 158.

Atto test, happy then writes gone astray. Why?

yesterday

today

Gibbo · 4 Aug 2010 at 21:08

Hi there

OcUK does not sell the Kingston drives mainly for such reasons, they seem to have big performane issues when compared to OCZ, Corsair, Crucial and Intel.

Yes the Kingstons can be good value, but I'd rather pay more for guaranteed high levels of performance. If enough of you want Kingston we may consider selling it but to be honest Kingston are outperformed at the moment by a considerable amount.

reygjabla · 4 Aug 2010 at 21:16

Well, I've been saying it a number of times. Some things are cheap for a reason. The best is always never cheap.

Gibbo · 4 Aug 2010 at 21:35

reygjabla said:
Well, I've been saying it a number of times. Some things are cheap for a reason. The best is always never cheap.

This is very true.

bells · 5 Aug 2010 at 00:32

Gibbo said:
Hi there

OcUK does not sell the Kingston drives mainly for such reasons, they seem to have big performane issues when compared to OCZ, Corsair, Crucial and Intel.

Yes the Kingstons can be good value, but I'd rather pay more for guaranteed high levels of performance. If enough of you want Kingston we may consider selling it but to be honest Kingston are outperformed at the moment by a considerable amount.

You sold them not that long ago ?

Gibbo · 5 Aug 2010 at 07:30

bells said:
You sold them not that long ago ?

They were removed for poor performance and poor sales.

If you want them back we can look into it.

kingwahwah · 5 Aug 2010 at 15:03

reygjabla said:
Well, I've been saying it a number of times. Some things are cheap for a reason. The best is always never cheap.

I know they are cheap. I should have got a C300 going by AS benchtest thread. But Kingston £80 and C300 £125.

Its to tide me over until 256Gb come down in price. Reviews of Kingstons Gen 2 are not that bad. Real world, Win7 boots in <15 secs and Photoshop is instant. I'm hoping ARMA2 OA (in post) will benefit.

PS this is the only piece of kit i have not bought from OCUK for last two PCs. Spend over £1000 this year.

Thx
G