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
(83%)
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: Installing an SSD in your PC, be it a laptop or a desktop, is one of the easiest and most effective ways to boost the machine's overall performance. The change won't be merely noticeable—it will startle you. Your system will boot more quickly, windows and...
Top-notch performance, Good price/performance, Nice upgrade accessory bundle
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The Kingston HyperX 3K SSD delivers impressive performance at an excellent price point. It's the fastest SATA 6Gbps SSD I've tested to date and I have no problem recommending it. The HyperX 3K is a very nice alternative to the original, more expensive ...
As is often the case with SSD reviews, what we have here is a mixed bag of results, so now it’s time to sift through them to try and better understand where each SSD stands in terms of performance. Breaking down the file copy tests, if we combine the ...
sBefore we draw any conclusions after looking at all the results, we have to consider price. What do for our SSD reviews is take a snapshot of prices at various retailers. Since these drives can go on sale at any given time, it’s important to look at m...
Our Crucial M4 64GB review illustrated the possible performance implications of choosing a smaller solid-state drive. Thankfully the Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB doesn't suffer greatly in this regard — it lags behind the 240GB version but not by a whole l...
Abstract: In a contest of high-end consumer SSDs, the SandForce-based Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB takes on Samsung 830 Series 128GB which uses Samsung's own MCX controller and Toggle NAND chips.
Like I said when reviewing a single HyperX 3K 240GB, there is no drive that I could give a higher recommendation for you own. I would have to say that recommendation, like the drives themselves, overscales when 2 are run in RAID 0. No pair of SATA III ...
The Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB didn't impress when it came to our benchmarks then, returning well below-average results in most of our tests and being throughly out-performed by competing 128GB drives from Crucial and Samsung.It's not a drive for speed, the...
Kingston has done it. I can’t think of a drive that I could give a higher recommendation. Kingston’s choice of using lower P/E NAND to deliver lower cost is simply brilliant. The HyperX 3K’s lower cost was achieved in a better way than any other manuf...
Abstract: Whenever we receive new solid state drives based on SandForce controllers, we hope that the next batch of them won’t come to us soon. We’ve just tested too many of them and really want to try something completely new but, contrary to our expectations, ...
