I got the Kingston SSDnow 300. What do I do?

Hardware HDD's & SSD's
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So I recently got the Kingston SSD Now 300. And it's getting terrible speeds on a fresh Windows 7 Home Premium build. The SSD is the 120GB model.

So what do I do?

I live in Canada so what SSD's can you recommend and at a similar price point unless as previously stated there is something I can do to fix this?

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seems wrong, found this, it doesn't say "ATA Device" hmm

 

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You are running 505A firmware. You have an older GOOD V300. Since then kingston has bait&switched and anything past 505 is running poop-nand. OP is running 541Anand

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7763/an-update-to-kingston-ssdnow-v300-a-switch-to-slower-micron-nand

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That's probably from when the Kingston V300s weren't shit. OP's bench is very much in line with their speeds now that they switched to lower quality NAND.

Edit: NJM ninja'd me.

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What capacity of SSD are you looking for? My 256GB Crucial MX100 is pretty nice, but I'm not sure how comparable it is in terms of price in Canada. I wouldn't go for a 128GB version since it's slower.

Samsung 840 evo/pro and 850 evo/pro are of course great options. Again, not sure how pricing is.

Edit: Didn't see that it looks like you're looking at 128GB version from the picture of the benchmark.

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You can't fix it. If you can return the ssd do that. Kingston sold you a product on bait&switch.

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I am looking for a 120 GB SSD for my OS and a few games. I don't want anything crazy. Just similar price point to the Kingsaton SSD

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Welp that sucks. 

On the box it clearly states; :450MB/s read and 450 MB/s Writer," False advertising much especially considering there are no marks indicating up to this speed or due to in house benchmarks. kek.

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I rememeber Logan mentioning in a video that Kingston sent him the V300. I hope he delivers the results sooner or later - would be very interesting. Isn't Kingston slowly but surely replacing the V300 with the "new" HyperX Fury?

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yeah nope. Just got myself one of the HyperX Furys and while the read may be at ~317, writes at ~59. Tough, it does say my controller is bad so the a Fury SSD may be fine.

Also 4k writes at ~2mbs and reads at ~22.

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It has always been false advertising. It uses the Sandforce controller. That means it will only see those speeds on compressible data which is a relatively small percentage of what you do day to day. It will never hit those speeds outside of benchmarks. That being said should still be much higher. Damn Kingston.