Testseek.co.uk have collected 220 expert reviews of the Kingston 2.5 inch HyperX 3K SSD Series SATA600 and the average rating is 83%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Kingston 2.5 inch HyperX 3K SSD Series SATA600.
May 2012
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220 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(88%)
184 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Great overall performance
Good quality asthetics
Affordable to the masses
3 years warranty
Affordable price point
Sought after performance
Reliable brand
Strong IOPs performance
HyperX branding
Enthusiastgrade performance
Available with an excellent upgrade bundle
Cheaper than the original HyperX
Decent performance
Price per gigabyte
Great compressible data performance
Bargain price
Strong 4k random IOPS throughput
3 year warranty with Kingston
The editors didn't like
Write performance suffers in some benchmarks
SandForce controller does result in low performance when handling incompressible data
Pricing needs to be even more aggressive
3K memory instead of 5K
Sandforce not the fastest anymore
Suffers with incompressible data
Stiff competition
Vertex 4 is only £20 more
Kitguru says
A high value for money drive
Ideal for a wide audience of enthusiast user. Less than £1 per GB
Abstract: SSD prices are dropping so quickly that it makes more and more sense to have one in your PC. 120 or 128 GB versions you can find already for £90, and for less than twice that you can buy an SSD with double the capacity. It will still take a long time be...
The performance of the Kingston HyperX 3K SSDs is in line with other SandForce SF-2281 SSDs.There is not a huge difference in performance between these models and the higher-end models. According to our own calculations, the lower 3000 erase cycles shou...
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Published: 2012-06-06, Author: David , review by: pcgameware.co.uk
I've really enjoyed my time with the Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB which has performed well and has put my current Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB to shame (but that's to be expected I guess as technology advances further and there are now no moving parts!)...
With its SandForce SF2281 based HyperX 3K SSD, Kingston doesn't reach the performance values they advertise in the specifications by a small margin We measured the following peaks: 512 MByte were possible when writing 128 KByte blocks randomly and 539 MBy...
Great overall performance, Good quality asthetics, Affordable to the masses, 3 years warranty
Write performance suffers in some benchmarks
Whilst there are obvious performance benefits to upgrading to a 6Gbps SSD many enthusiasts still struggle with the matter of pricing - but thanks to Kingston this no longer needs to be an issue.Kingston have taken their popular HyperX performance SSD ...
Great compressible data performance, bargain price, strong 4k random IOPS throughput, 3 year warranty with Kingston,
suffers with incompressible data, stiff competition, Vertex 4 is only £20 more, Kitguru says: A high value for money drive, ideal for a wide audience of enthusiast user. Less than £1 per GB, well done Kingston, Rating: 9.0, Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
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 i...
Abstract: I never thought this whole tech journalism gig would turn me into a mass murderer. Yet here I am, with the blood of six SSDs on my hands, and that's not even the half of it. You see, these were not crimes of passion or rage, nor were they products of acci...
Build Quality (Intel NAND, Enclosure), Performance (Almost Identical To The 5k Model), Upgrade Bundle (3.5" bracket/2.5" USB Enclosure), Price (For Some), 24/7 Support, 3 Years Warranty
3k Cycles (Not For Professional/Enterprise Use)
Just by taking a look at the charts it's quite evident that the HyperX 3k has almost zero performance differences with the 5k version since they both win each other in our benchmarks. True i can't really test the lifespan of both drives but all i can say ...
