Kingston SSD (SSDNow V300) Slower than advertised?

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I just recently got a new 120GB Kingston SSD since my HDD was not booting up very well, BSoD, ETC, and I needed to upgrade anyways. I was reading the Kingston rumored to replace some of the internals making the drive slower than advertised. I would like to know if this is true and how I would be able to test to see if my drive is slower than it should be.

 

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HDTune

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There is already a thread about this on the forum with screenshots of tests.

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Could you link to the post please? I looked before I posted :/

 

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Thanks, I'll give it a try!

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Sure, here you go:

https://teksyndicate.com/users/netstow/blog/2014/12/06/just-bought-v300-ssd-after-750-build-what-now

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They're terrible... I mean they're way faster than HDDs... but as far as SSDs go.... .... ... TERRIBLE... if you jsut bought it, get your money back and get a Samsung, Crucial, Intel, or Corsair SSD (the Corsair Force LX is generally pretty cheap and doesn't have great write speeds but the read speeds are on par with anything on the market... if you're using it for an OS/Core program drive, then you won't be writing often anyways, and it's a good buy)

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Thanks!

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Every SSD will be slower then advertised, you can take most of those numbers with a grain of salt, because you will only reach close to those speeds in the best case scenario´s, this means that you have to do tons of windows tweaks and what not. ☺