Kingston HyperX Max 3.0 128GB Drive Review

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.

Today for testing we first copied a 3.9GB MKV file to and from the Kingston HyperX USB 3.0 drive. It is worth mentioning that the HyperX Max 3.0 drive is supplied with a FAT32 directory structure. If you wanted to store files larger than this, then you would need to reformat to NTFS on Windows (or NFS on Macintosh). We are using a Crucial 256GB RealSSD as the partner for these tests.

Real world benefits mean that you spend less time waiting when copying big files back and forward between drives.

Next we created a 3GB folder of mixed sized files, this is to reproduce a real world scenario – many users have folders of word documents, picture files and even database documents.

Our real world testing proves that the synthetic results earlier are actually very accurate. The time to copy our mixed file folder was reduced by between 400-550%, when we switched from USB 2.0 to the USB 3.0 interface. If you need to copy files in a hurry, then this drive is going to be hard to beat.

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