KitGuru KitGuru.net – Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards
The product we received was straight from the factory and wasn't supplied in any retail packaging. Kingston informed us that the final product may look slightly different… the sticker with the product name for instance on our review sample wasn't adhered very securely and kept slipping off.
The HyperX Max 3.0 is supplied in a blue metal chassis which is an attractive design. On the rear are four rubber feet which cover sealing screws. The final retail product is likely going to have a sticker over one of these screws which would invalid the warranty if it was opened.
The HyperX Max 3.0 ships with a USB 3.0 power cable specifically created for this product. This cable is also backwards compatible with a USB 2.0/1.1 port, so no power leads are required.
After removing the rubber feet to expose the screws we were able to pry open the chassis.
Internally we can see the Toshiba T6UG1XBG SSD controller. This is used in other Kingston products, such as the second generation SSDNow V+ units. This design is optimised to help enhance the thermal performance of the product – the IC components have a thermal filler pad to transfer heat to the metal enclosure for instance.
The Toshiba T6UG1XBG processor is a 43nm part with native TRIM support and in theory it can offer speeds of up to 230 MBps (read) and 180MBps (write). Inside the chassis there is a small adapter module to convert the SATA drive to USB 3.0. Buffering is handled by the 128mb Micron 9LA17-D9HSJ DDR DRAM module, a very good performer.
Holy Snit batman, thats a performance USB drive and a half ! I need to gets me a USB 3 controller 🙁
Damn, thats another great product from Kingston. Excellent drive, toshiba controller is proven too, good choice.
This is a great idea, only problem is, people in work etc, will more than likely be stuck on USB 2 machines for eons. so unless you are just using it for single machine or offline backups, its expensive !
Well this is rather sexy innit? the usb 3 drives ive seen reviewed so far were lucky to hit 100MB so this is vastly superior. nice work Kingston.
USB 2.0 really does need replacing. ive an old 500gb USB 2.0 drive and its facking painful to back up files. I normally do it overnight when im kipping. Look forward to one of these, but it will be a while as I just bought a motherboard a few months ago.
Spend £15 on a USB 3.0 controller, best way to get usb 3 without forking out 150 quid again for a motherboard.
Awesome, im buying a 64gb for my documents. any rough time for retail? mid dec? start? dec 2011? lol
I think this is the first time ive really seen usb 3.0 external drives really shine with the performance. excellent performance results.
massive gains over USB 2.0 very nice for an external drive