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We use Futuremark’s PCMark Vantage in many of our system reviews and we felt that it was worth an inclusion in this review. It is still a synthetic suite, but it uses many real world characteristics to try and judge overall performance levels. We are using the 64 bit version of the HDD Suite for this testing. We also compare against a Samsung F1 1TB drive on this page.
A PCMark score is a measure of your computer’s performance across a variety of common tasks such as viewing and editing photos, video, music and other media, gaming, communications, productivity and security. From desktops and laptops to workstations and gaming rigs, by comparing your PCMark Vantage score with other similar systems you can find the hardware and software bottlenecks that stop you getting more from your PC.
This time we compared the Kingston HyperX Max 3.0 against a Samsung F1 1TB 7,200rpm Hard Disk Drive.
The Samsung HDD had a tough time competing with the SSD based HyperX Max 3.0, getting hammered in every test by huge margins. This is to be expected with flash memory and the capable Toshiba T6UG1XBG controller.
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