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Kingston SSD Review

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Official Product Description (from Amazon):


Official Drive specifications:
    Current US Amazon Price: $109.99
    Form factor: 2.5"
    Controller: SandForce SF-2281
    Components: MLC NAND (3k P/E Cycles)
    Interface: SATA Rev 3.0 (6Gb/s), SATA Rev 2.0 (3Gb/s)
    Capacity: 120GB
    Sequential Read/Write (SATA Rev. 3.0)2:  555/510MB/s
    Sustained 4KB Random Read/Write3: 20,000/60,000 IOPS
    Max 4KB Random Read/Write3: 85,000/73,000 IOPS
    Dimension: 69.85mm x 100mm x 9.5mm
    Supports S.M.A.R.T., TRIM and Garbage Collection
    Shock Resistance: 1500G
    Storage Temperatures: -40° C to 85° C
    Operating Temperatures: 0°C to 70°C
    Vibration Operating: 2.17G
    Vibration Non-operating: 20G
    MTBF: 1,000,000 Hrs
    PCMARK® Vantage HDD Suite Score4: 60,000
    Power Consumption: 0.455 W (TYP) Idle / 1.58 W (TYP) Read / 2.11 W (TYP) Write
    Warranty/Support: Three-year warranty with free technical support

HyperX 3K SSD - HyperX performance at an exceptional price

The drive we are reviewing and giving away is the Upgrade Kit. The Upgrade Kit comes with the SSD itself, a 2.5" to 3.5" bay adapter, a very nice external USB2.0 Enclosure for transferring your data to the drive before installation, Acronis drive-cloning software CD (which is excellent software!), a SATA6 cable, and a multi-bit screwdriver to use for drive installation.



The HyperX 3K Series of SSDs are ideal for:
- Decreasing load times of high-resolution PC games
- Increasing frame rates per second for a better gaming experience
- Faster transfers of large media files
- Multitasking
- Movie downloads, transfers and syncs

One of the best ways to directly compare an SSD to the competition is by checking it's PassMark score:


As you can see from the chart, the HyperX 3k 120GB SSD ranks pretty evenly with other drives in its pricerange. We really like this drive and it has been rated well by numerous hardware enthusiast websites and won awards such as TweakTown's "Best Features" SSD award.

I would definitely use it for game storage. That way, I could download my entire Steam catalogue onto it and could easily transfer it between my PC and Laptop. Would make my custom playing a lot easier too.

That, and the fact I am too cheap to buy a portable HDD.

Cool 
When I bought my new PC I wanted an SSD, but I didn't have the money for it. A free one would definitely be nice.

I would use it to store Games,and hopefully increase the potential of my pc. Also it would really help me with expanding my game library with newer games  . Btw good review

That's awesome.
I'd use it to place my os and the most important programs on it. My custom maps didn't find place on my current hdd anymore so I had to tweak my os to move them onto the other one.

I would use it to store my steam games because i have over 200Gb of games on steam i would also need this for my very big WAW folder , when i builded my PC i did not have money for a portable HDD

i have a pretty small harddisk so i am only able to have like 1 or 2 games at the same time and with this i can switch games when im bored with the other one

I have a portable HDD where I have my WaW modtools stored and all my stuff on it. I had an SSD drive 10 months ago, but unfortunately it broke for no reason and I didn't had a chance to get a new one. The current HDD I have is a normal disc and it's pretty slow. But 500GB of storage is why I still use it. My dad said that an SSD drive would make my maps and mods compile faster and as well load stuff faster than usual. So the reason I would be using the SSD drive is to store all my modtools data as a backup on the go. When one of these drives would break I would restore the data from the other one, so I can still keep all my wins
EDIT: Oh, and my steam is Ray1235 as usual

I would probably put it to use recording, editing, rendering, and moving large videos.
Also transferring games to the 4 other computers that my siblings play on. 

Personally, If I could win it I would use it for installing the OS and most important programs so PC wil be like a thunder.

I'd just use it for Windows or a Linux distro. 120 GB, even if it is SSD, isn't much to work with for game storage but it'd help big time for booting.

Just wondering, if by any chance that my computer doesn't have the proper SATA cable connections, i could just boot it from USB like a flash drive correct?

i wanna start to create nazi zombies mods and mas and i think i need to a upgrade give to me please 

Just wondering, if by any chance that my computer doesn't have the proper SATA cable connections, i could just boot it from USB like a flash drive correct?

I've gone ahead and created a discussion topic for this kind of stuff: http://ugx-mods.com/forum/index.php?topic=1773.

i would love to have this ssd so i could install win xp pro for my girlfriend, her hard drive failed the other night and she lost everything she had done in The Sims 3 for the past year. its her pride and joy thats why i have not finished a map yet because i tell her to use the computer as much as possible and i have cod for xbox so im good. i use it when shes not home lol.

 thanks for your time

I would want this to store things on it so my computer will go faster.