14 DAY TRIAL // Kingston may be fond of its red color scheme when it comes to solid state drives, but it seems to have gone for a completely different style when it designed its series of USB 3.0 SSDs.
Kingston may have just released a collection of SSDs intended for a more or less unusual market segment, but the company has in no way neglected the consumer market.
In fact, Kingston has been working on a certain solid state drive which meets not just the storage and speed needs of users, but that of portability as well.
Simply put, the outfit has put together, or has almost finished putting together, the HyperX-branded portable SSD with USB 3.0.
USB 3.0, as consumers probably know, is the latest iteration of the USB standard and has a maximum theoretical transfer of about 5 Gbps.
This makes it about ten times faster than the USB 2.0 interface, hence why it is called the SuperSpeed standard.
According to Engadget Spanish, Kingston is just about ready to start shipping the newcomer, in three distinct storage capacities to be exact.
The smallest has 64 GB of storage, while the other two are of 128 GB and 256 GB, respectively.
Their design involved a smooth metal casing, colored blue, much in the same way as the HyperX series of PC RAM.
As for the actual performance, the report states that reading is accomplished at up to 195 MB/s, whereas writing tasks can go as fast as 160 MB/s.
Unfortunately, nothing was uncovered as far as pricing and availability goes, so consumers will have to wait for an actual press announcement or for stores to begin listing them online.
In the meantime, those interested in a demonstration can watch the actual videos that Engadget Spanish was able to make, with the unboxing and teardown.