AS SSD:
AS SSD is a relatively new benchmark designed specifically for solid state drives. The application contains five synthetic tests used to determine the sequential and random read and write performance of a drive.
AS SSD also includes a copy benchmark. This test copies an ISO (two large files), program (many small files) and game (small and large files), returning the speed and duration of each.
HD Tune Pro 4.61:
Next, I ran a series of tests using HD Tune Pro. This hard disk utility measures a drive's performance by testing its sequential read and write speeds as well as its access time, burst rate and CPU usage. For this review, I'm also going to use it to benchmark the SSDNow V+200's random read and write speeds, random access times and the number of operations per second.
 Kingston SSDNow V+200 90GB - HD Tune Read Benchmark |
 OCZ Agility 3 120GB - HD Tune Read Benchmark |
 Kingston SSDNow V+200 90GB - HD Tune Write Benchmark |
 OCZ Agility 3 120GB - HD Tune Write Benchmark |
The SSDNow V+200 performed very well when benchmarked with HD Tune. The drive had average read and write speeds of 490.5 MB/s and 413.7 MB/s, respectively, as well as a burst rate of 310.3 MB/s when reading.
 Kingston SSDNow V+200 90GB - HD Tune Random Access Read |
 OCZ Agility 3 120GB - HD Tune Random Access Read |
 Kingston SSDNow V+200 90GB - HD Tune Random Access Write |
 OCZ Agility 3 120GB - HD Tune Random Access Write |
The SSDNow V+200 didn't disappoint when doing random reads and writes. When reading 4KB blocks, the drive reached 16342 IOPS and had an average speed of 63.836 MB/s. The SSDNow V+200 was even faster when writing, reaching 18442 IOPS with an average speed of 72.040 MB/s.
Iometer:
Lastly, I ran a series of tests using Iometer. This tool can be configured to benchmark a number of things. In this case, I used it to measure the SSDNow V+200's read and write speeds and the number of operations per second. The tests were run using both repeating and random bytes and a queue depth of 3.
The SSDNow V+200's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. With highly compressible, repeating data, the drive was able to read at 518.68 MB/s and write at 463.16 MB/s. When tested with random data, the drive's read and write speeds dropped to 204.88 MB/s and 116.44 MB/s, respectively.
The V+200 performed fairly well when doing random reads and writes. With repeating data, the drive was able to read at 49.06 MB/s and write at a blazing 291.33 MB/s. Here too, the V+200 took a performance hit when tested with random data. However, it was still able to write at 112.04 MB/s.
According to Kingston, the SSDNow V+200 is capable of 47,000 IOPS when randomly writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 74,579 IOPS with repeating data and 28,681 IOPS with random data.
