Kingston SSDnow M2 SATA 120GB Solid State Drive Review

ATTO

The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage systems performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Several options are available to customize your performance measurement including queue depth, overlapped I/O and even a comparison mode with the option to run continuously. Use ATTO Disk Benchmark to test any manufacturers RAID controllers, storage controllers, host adapters, hard drives and SSD drives and notice that ATTO products will consistently provide the highest level of performance to your storage.

Unconditioned

Conditioned

 Drive Performance

There is a slight drop in speeds in the ATTO Disk benchmark, but again it’s barely worth mentioning as it’s only about 1MB/s on the final two steps of the reading tests.

Drive Comparison

For the purpose of drive comparison, I will be using the performance figures from both unconditioned and conditioned tests with 0% data-fill.

The Kingston SSDnow M.2 SSD didn’t top out in our ATTO charts, but it did perform extremely well. With read speeds of 556 MB/s and 532MB/s while writing, the drive impresses on a big scale for a tiny form factor.