Testseek.com 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.
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, ...
Now you may be asking yourself, what is a program erase cycle? Simply put, it is when data is written to a NAND flash memory cell, then erased, then rewritten. PE cycles are a measurable number to determine the lifespan of flash storage. Kingston's firs...
One area of concern with this SSD is the pricing, and we might as well jump out with it here. The HyperX 3k is selling right now at very low prices, and easily outstrips the price of the other drives tested in all capacities. We will compare the prices of...
