Kingston SSDNOW V200 Is Having Serious Performance Problems

[milkshake]

Originally Posted by Farchord

Yeah I myself got a Crucial CT128M4SSD2 m4 on the way, just ordered off Tiger Direct.... I'll keep my SSD as they will eventually fix it, when they do I will find a use for it.

from a user's review online:

"drive seems to have extremely slow writes speeds avg at 3 MB/s on a 4k run of AS SSD benchmark, I called Kingston regrading the problem to see how they would resolve the issue and the answer from a level 2 tech at Kingston kindly stated that there is no fix and an new drive replacement will not fix the issues, also the tech says they might never be a fix for this particular model of ssd as it might be a hard ware issue.... stay away until Kingston figure what the engineers are doing"

Better return it while you can...

[psydev]

While this drive has very fast write speeds, when the drive is busy performing one operation (like moving a large file), all other operations slow down IMMENSELY. Sometimes I might be doing 2 or 3 things at once (photoshop, browser, whatever), and then do something simple like open the control panel or notepad, and the computer will inexplicably hang for several seconds (or sometimes much, much longer!). This isn't a CPU/RAM limitation (I monitor those).

For another example, I was moving a very large file (~6 GB) from one partition to another and getting speeds of about 100+ MB/s. But then, as a test, I moved another file at the same time (a few hundred MB) to another HDD. While the 1st transfer started at ~100+ MB/s, as soon as I started doing the 2nd file at the same time, it quickly went down to 20, and then soon after to 10 MB/s and stayed there. The worst part is, after the 2nd file transfer was done, the 1st file transfer rate never went back up, and stayed at 10 MB/s until done. (??) [was using Window's built-in speed gauge for copying/moving]

During game installations or large file moves, my system can become very laggy when multitasking, sometimes even to the point of being almost unresponsive. Those moves/installations can also take up a lot of time than they should if I'm trying to do more than one thing at once (this ordinarily ought not to tax the system *too* much).

It's not all doom & gloom though:
When running just one big program at once, the system performs very well. I can run Command & Conquer 3, StarCraft II and Photoshop with no problems, and with good speed compared to my HDD. Windows also boots relatively fast, and it's clear that load speeds are faster than my old HDD. So for most things, the HD is OK and not a "nightmare".
Still, the hiccups and issues are very annoying given that it's supposed to be a "fast" drive.

[Vi@87]

Hi. I want to buy a 128GB ssd kingston sv200s3.
I read that something is wrong. Someone can get me a summary of these problems?
are solved?
thanks

[ricardot]

hi again

well i have notices, kingston will change me the ssd but they didn't say if they gonna change for another v200.

I request for a v+200 or hyperx

i'll see what happens

remember i'm from mexico so if they change the v200 for a v+200 or hyperx i'll be very very happy and i'll belive in kingston again

[teletran1web]

An update:

I have returned the Kingston SSD for a full refund and have purchased a Plextor M3 SSD instead.

Here are the benchmarks that compare the 2 drives used as an OS drive running on SATA 2:



As you can see, this is much better.

I suggest those looking at getting a Crucial M4 get the Plextor M3 instead. The Plextor should perform faster and has a 5 year warranty as well.

Good luck!

[ellalan]

Originally Posted by teletran1web

An update:

I have returned the Kingston SSD for a full refund and have purchased a Plextor M3 SSD instead.

Here are the benchmarks that compare the 2 drives used as an OS drive running on SATA 2:



As you can see, this is much better.

I suggest those looking at getting a Crucial M4 get the Plextor M3 instead. The Plextor should perform faster and has a 5 year warranty as well.

Good luck!

I'm really pleased for you, well done, customers pay a premium price and deserved to be happy with their purchases.

[jclausius]

Originally Posted by teletran1web

The Plextor should perform faster and has a 5 year warranty as well.

Warranty aside, does the M4 perform like the C300? If so, the C300 (and M4) would be slightly better - at least on SATA II. -

[Amhunt84]

I have mow been offered a 60g s3 as a replacement. I am still not happy though: it's a smaller capacity and an older model and no compensation offered for the time and trouble. I'll let ou know what happens!

[Skolar]

I finally received my crucial M4. Here is a comparison between the benchmarks of the V200 and the M4.

[RagingDemon]

Originally Posted by Skolar

I finally received my crucial M4. Here is a comparison between the benchmarks of the V200 and the M4.

This is the true thing. Incomparable.

I'll get my Crucial m4 like replacement for v200 these days.
For the price nobody don't require from Kingston v200 to have same performance like m4, but only the declared performance and performance that we paying for, but obviously they are not capable to deliver even nearly declared performance by them self.