Chinese SSD Vaseky V800

Looking to upgrade a laptop HDD to the power of SSD I decided to try the Chinese way with this one.
So I bought the cheapest Chinese SSD drive that I could find in the size I wanted ~120GB.

Vaseky V800 128G is a 128GB solid state drive.

Made a video showing the tests and conclusions.
Speed test of the drive on Sata II computer.

Vaseky V800 128G Video

After Install

After NTFS formatting the free available disk caacity was 119GB, not bad. Didn’t need more.
Speed was the important bit here… and compatibility. 🙂
Recognized by Windows 10 without any problems as Vaseky V800/128G.
No extra drivers needed.
Initial thoughts on this cheap Chinese SSD is good, will use it more and hope it stays alive a long time.

The details of the chips

SSD Controller chip
Manufacturer: SiliconMotion
Model: SM2246XT
PKKH27.00
Description: SATA 6Gb/s DRAM-less SSD Controller

Memory Chip:
Manufacturer: Toshiba Memory Corporation
Model: Toshiba TH58TFT0DDLBA8H
Description: NAND Flash Parallel 3.3V 8-bit 132-Pin FBGA
Type: Flash Memory Chip
Voltage: Typical Operating Supply Voltage 3.3V

This SSD is a M-SATA ssd that can be installed in an Msata or mini PCI-E slot in your PC or Laptop.

Some Laptops might not accept a msata SSD in a mini PCI-E slot if they are not made to accept ssd drives.

Best to check your laptop specifications before upgrading.

For example, the laptop I bought this for initially (Acer Aspire 5100 series) does not work with this SSD unfortunately.

Using a msata to SATA adapter is easy as shown in the video if the system is compatible : /

SSD tested on modern SATA 3

Tested on SATA 3, 6GB/s Motherboard

Speed test results on SATA3

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CrystalDiskMark 6.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2018 hiyohiyo
                          Crystal Dew World : https://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

   Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) :   350.440 MB/s
  Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) :   198.317 MB/s
  Random Read 4KiB (Q=  8,T= 8) :    96.484 MB/s [  23555.7 IOPS]
 Random Write 4KiB (Q=  8,T= 8) :   159.949 MB/s [  39050.0 IOPS]
  Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) :    96.164 MB/s [  23477.5 IOPS]
 Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) :   158.029 MB/s [  38581.3 IOPS]
  Random Read 4KiB (Q=  1,T= 1) :    20.172 MB/s [   4924.8 IOPS]
 Random Write 4KiB (Q=  1,T= 1) :    84.742 MB/s [  20689.0 IOPS]

  Test : 1024 MiB [G: 42.1% (50.2/119.2 GiB)] (x5)  [Interval=5 sec]
  Date : 2019/08/31 12:34:40
    OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 18362] (x64)