1. Introduction2. Kingston V310 960GB 3. Kingston V310 960GB (High Res Gallery)4. Testing Methodology5. Crystaldiskmark6. ATTO Disk Benchmark7. AS SSD8. IOMETER9. Closing Thoughts10. View All Pages

If you are one of those users who demands a massive primary drive in a system then today's review will be of interest. We look at the new Kingston V310 Solid State drive, which ships in a whopping 960GB capacity. The big question which we answer today – does it compare well against market leaders such as the Samsung 840 EVO 1TB?

Kingston SSDNow V310 Features and Specifications:

• Faster: improves speed of loading applications and system boot up.
• Reliable: with no moving parts, solid-state drives are less likely to fail than standard hard drives.
• Convenient: all-in-one kits with all the components for easy installation.
• Large capacity: enough space to migrate your entire HDD over to a SSD.
• Form factor: 2.5-inch drive available in 7.0mm with adapter to fit in 9.5mm systems.
• Silent: runs silent and cool.
• Interface: SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s) – with backwards compatibility to SATA Rev. 2.0.
• Capacities: 960GB.

• Power Consumption: 0.08 W Idle / 1.28 W Avg/ 1.16 W (MAX) Read / 5.39 W (MAX) Write.
• Storage temperature: -40°F to 185°F (-40°C to 85°C).
• Operating temperature: 32°F to 158°F (0°C to 70°C).
• Dimensions : 69.8mm x 100.1mm x 7mm.
• Weight: 92.5g.
• Vibration operating: 2.17G Peak (7–800Hz).
• Vibration non-operating: 20G Peak (10–2000Hz).
• Life expectancy: 1 million hours MTBF.
• Warranty/support: 3-year warranty with free technical support.
• Total Bytes Written (TBW): 2,728TB 2.56DWPD8.

Baseline Performance:

• Compressible Data Transfer (ATTO) – 450MB/s Read and 450MB/s Write.
• Incompressible Data Transfer (AS-SSD and CrystalDiskMark) – 500MB/s Read and 440MB/s Write.
• IOMETER Maximum Random 4k Read/Write – 40,000 IOPS and 20,000 IOPS.
• Random 4k Read/Write – 27,000MB/s Read and 10,500MB/s Write.
• PCMARK 8 Storage Bandwidth Score – 4,700.

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