It doesn’t matter how good any of the synthetic suites are, the real meat of the testing has to be under absolute real world conditions. This proves difficult as to record results we have to narrow down fluctuation. Therefore while we would say these are the most useful results to get from this review, there is always going to be a slight margin for error – its not absolutely scientific.
Firstly we installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Edition onto each of the drives and performed a clean update from Microsoft with all patches and security fixes. We then install a basic suite of software, such as Office, Firefox and Adobe Design, then we install AVG free antivirus. We used a digital watch for this startup and repeated the test five times for each drive – once we had these five results we averaged the results and took that for the final figure.
Strong performance, scoring 23 seconds, in line with the OCZ Octane 512GB and Samsung 820 Series 512GB drives.
The Kingston drive scores 19 seconds, same as the OCZ Octane 512GB with fw 1.13. Good results.
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB SSD Review,
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April 11, 2012
#1
Yay, the first of many I hope. Nice job from Kingston indeed !
120Gb for £99 who will crack that one?
April 11, 2012
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June 15, 2012
#12
Scan are doing these for 65 quid now.
September 14, 2012
#13
[...] We have reviewed around 30 Solid State Drives powered by the Sandforce 2281 controller in the last year and it is becoming increasingly difficult to talk about the same controller in so many reviews. Thankfully Kingston are realising that to get noticed in this market that they need to focus on the price point. In regards to performance, we doubt the target audience will have any complaints. It is in the top group of Sandforce 2281 drives on the market, delivering 555 MB/s sequential read and 528 MB/s sequential write in the ATTO Benchmark. As we noted earlier, the write result is actually higher than the Kingston official claim of 510 MB/s. Kingston have managed to achieve their goals, releasing a high performance drive at the lowest possible price. It really is rather silly to ignore it. -KitGuru [Link] [...]