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.
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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
Published: 2012-06-14, Author: First , review by: zdnet.com
Abstract: The SSD business is becoming ever more competitive: even in the niche high-capacity end of the market, drives are coming in under the magical £1 per gigabyte level as manufacturers try to cut costs to make their products more appealing. The latest high-ca...
Inexpensive for an SSD surely, Includes everything you need to upgrade to an SSD in notebook or desktop, Includes 2.5” to 3.5” adapter, Includes handy 2.5” USB enclosure, Nice tool kit included, Very fast drive, Excellent read and write speeds
Published: 2012-06-06, Author: Ali , review by: wccftech.com
Despite its lower rated NAND and a rather sparse set of goodies, the drive performs as advertised. When compared to its elder (and more expensive brethren), it offers a competitive performance. For light work load environments this is an ideal drive, but ...
Great performance, Upgrade kit, 3 year warranty, Kingston made it more affordable
None that I found
The solid state drive market is continually growing and as prices keep on dropping more and more people are getting their hands on these incredibly fast drives. Kingston is now making this even easier with their HyperX 3K drive. Using the less expens...
Published: 2012-05-25, Author: Steven , review by: techspot.com
Abstract: After the success of its SF-1200 (1222) controller, virtually every SSD maker was eager to climb aboard the SandForce express. That bandwagon continued trucking through last year, as the second-gen SF-2200 (2281) powered many of 2011's noteworthy flash dr...
Kicking off the conclusion with performance, the HyperX 3K is among the top performing drives we've tested so far. Whereas most companies would opt to use slower asynchronous NAND in all their budget SSDs, both Kingston's HyperX and HyperX 3K models use I...
As you can see by the test results, Kingston has managed to provide a high performing SSD at a substantially reduced price. This is music to the ears of budget minded gamers and enthusiasts who have been looking to add the performance gains a SSD adds to ...
The HyperX 3K competed well in the tests used for this review. Transfers were high, up to 546 MB/s in reads and 521 MB/s writes in ATTO Disk Benchmark. The maximum IOPS I experienced with the HyperX 3K in IOMeter 2008.6.18 were 81,172 in reads and ~60,0...
Stylish HyperX appearance, Lightning fast speeds, TRIM Support, Three year warranty
3k P/E Cycles instead of the 5k P/E Cycles found on the earlier HyperX SSD
With the HyperX 3K Kingston continues its trend in producing reliable, fast solid-state drives. Coming in at a lower price point than the older version, the HyperX 3K provides lightning fast read/write speeds for the enthusiast, gamer or power user. I...
An outstanding package, Excellent operation as a system drive, Excellent sequential read/write speeds and access times, Very good 4K random I/O performance at low queue depths, SATA 6Gbps support, External case to ease the cloning process, TRIM supp
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Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowPositiveAn outstanding package.Excellent operation as a system drive.Excellent sequential read/write speeds and access times.Very good 4K random I/O performance at low queue depths.SATA...
