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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.
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