14 DAY TRIAL // HyperX is a brand that Kingston used to apply only to its best DDR3 memory products, but eventually, it slapped onto solid-state drives as well. What we have here is the latest and oddest of the bunch. Oddest pair to be exact.
There are two new drives, you see, in the collection of SSDs from the well-known, world-class memory provider. They have capacities of 120 GB and 480 GB.
It puts them squarely in the ”normal” crowd. As normal as high-speed solid-state drives can ever be considered anyhow.
It might be an odd choice of words, until you run into things like the OCZ Vector 180 SSD of up to 960 GB.
Not that the capacities of the drives are the only “underwhelming” or odd things here. For one thing, Kingstron strayed from the normal blue theme of the brand, coloring the storage units black instead.
Moreover, the speed rating is unusual, with both the read and write rates said to be of the same 500 MB/s.
Usually, it's either 500+ MB/s and 30-400 MB/s write, or even less on low-capacity units. Or both read/write speeds are above 500 MB/s, but aren't equal.
It makes the Kingston HyperX Fury SSD quite unusual, unique almost. Although things do get “back to normal” as it were when you look at Incompressible Data Transfer (as reported by AS-SSD and CrystalDiskMark benchmarks).
The 120 GB HyperX Fury SSD can read incompressible data at 330 MB/s and write it at 130 MB/s, while the 240 GB one reaches 390 MB/s and 250 MB/s, respectively.
Random 4K performance is the same across the board, however: 72,500 read and 79,000 write IOPS (input/output operations per second).
Finally, the power consumption is, on average, of 0.35W, but will fall to 0.31 in idle mode and jump to 1.65 W when reading, and 2.76W when writing.
In addition to the Kingston HyperX Fury SSD series, Kingston brought a number of memory modules and kits to Computex 2014, the trade show currently unfolding in Taipei, Taiwan. We'll get to them soon enough.
The HyperX Fury drives ship, or will ship, with 7 mm to 9.5 mm adapters. Unfortunately, if it's prices or times of arrival you're rooting for, we’re afraid we can't oblige you, because the IT company didn't release that information.
Retailers should take care of that loose end in short order though, hopefully. Items that appear at trade shows often sell within days of the event after all, even if others sit back for months.