Awful SSD speed with Kinston V200 256GN SSD Now

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I bough the Kinston SSD drive and moved whole Windows 7 installation to my new SSD drive with Kinston own tool.

Problem is I am experiencing huge performance issues with this SSD. It behaves much worse than normal HD drive. I have AHCI enabled in the bios and only SSD drive is attached to the motherboard (no other drives) and the SATA speed is set to 6Gbps in BIOS. Any idea what is causing this poor performance? I have really a hard time to figure this out. Searched web, but without any results.

My motherboard is: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P8P67M_PRO
AS SSD Benchmark is attached
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I3LiNdSp0t
I am reading alot of threads here and on the net that the V200 has defective firmware and is a broken SSD with the poor performance you just showed in a screenshot.

I don't have anything else as advice then to get another one, like the v100 or another brand even. I have a Samsung Pro and it's great with great performance and read/write speeds.

If you want links to these threads, then let me know. Here's one for example:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/286854-32-kingston-ssdnow-v200-asus-ul80vt
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I am reading alot of threads here and on the net that the V200 has defective firmware and is a broken SSD with the poor performance you just showed in a screenshot.

I don't have anything else as advice then to get another one, like the v100 or another brand even. I have a Samsung Pro and it's great with great performance and read/write speeds.

If you want links to these threads, then let me know. Here's one for example:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/286854-32-kingston-ssdnow-v200-asus-ul80vt
 
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Your motherboard has 3 SATA 3 (6Gb/s) ports. Double-check that your SSD is connected to one of the 2 Intel 6Gb/s ports (SATA6G_1 or SATA6G_2), not to the ASMedia 6Gb/s port. See page 1-32 of your motherboard manual for the location of the ports.

Also, advertised speeds for your SSD are up to 300MB/s Read and 230MB/s Write using ATTO benchmark software. http://www.kingston.com/datasheets/sv200s3_us.pdf

ATTO uses highly compressible data to test Read/Write speeds. Highly compressible data is the easiest type of data for any SSD to Read/Write.

AS-SSD uses highly incompressible data to test Read/Write speeds. Highly incompressible data is the hardest type of data for any SSD to Read/Write.

After you've confirmed that you have the SSD on the correct port, benchmark with ATTO and post your results.

Also, your AS-SSD results show msahci - OK, which means that you are using Microsoft's default AHCI drivers.
Install Intel's latest AHCI drivers and see if that helps improve your performance. https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=22271


 
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It is the Kingston SSDNow V300 that has problems. It started about 90 days ago. There are 2 fabricating facilities - one in Taiwan and one in mainland China. The ones from mainland China are the ones with problems. In addition Kingston uses both Asynchronous and Synchronous flash memory in the V300 depending on which is cheaper.
 
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Thanks guys for replies, I am afraid as well that this is a faulty SSD, but will try to see what Kinston has to answer. And I am sorry, the mobo was incorrect copy paste, the one I have is http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M4A87TD_EVO. Thanks for the tips Dereck47, on the EVO board all the ports are same SATA ports. I also tried out with different cables and ports connections with same results. I will try out AHCI drivers from AMD instead of windows defaults, but afraid that that will solve nothing.

Thanks again for fast replies guys, appriciated! :)

Forgot to add that this was bought from a well known reseller as a new drive, not used.
 
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I installed an AMD AHCI drivers without any performance increase. Also the Kingston support replied and they though that the drive was mulfunctioning as well. I am getting a replacement from Kingston. Thanks again to everyone for replies.
 
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