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Benchmark

The test setup:

IBM T61
CPU: Intel P8400 - 2,4GHz
Graphics: 128MB nVidia Quadro NVS 140M

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
AHCI support enabled in BIOS

Antivirus and other applications that can affect performance are not installed

Drive defragmentation off

Drives
Test: Kingston SSDNow V+ G2 - 128GB

Comparison: Kingston SSDNow V+ G1 - 64GB

This will be translated to UK soon

Test-applications
- ATTO Disk Benchmark 2.34
- HD Tach 3.0.4.0
The drive supports TRIM, but since it does not appear to influence performance either way, we decided to just mention it.

ATTO Disk Benchmark
Here we look at the transfer speed of different file sizes.


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It is surprising to see that the new drive is actually slower than the old one at smaller file chunks. However, it vastly outperforms at greater file sizes. This disparity might be due to different controllers in the two.
In general, the performance of the newer drive does not fall over time, so it will easily be the fastest one no matter what.

HD Tach
We used HD Tach for test the seek time.


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They managed to reduce the seek time even more even though it was already very low.
Although it is not a huge upgrade and a whole new class of performance Kingston has come up with, I would still recommend getting this upgrade. The support of TRIM will easily makes the new drive much quicker than the old one.