14 DAY TRIAL // After just a few days ago Kingston announced the retail availability of the high-performance HyperX solid state drive, the unit has now been listed on Newegg, with prices starting at $269.99 US.
So far, Kingston's SSD solutions were pretty successful in the low-end and mainstream market, but the HyperX marks the company's entrance in the high-end SSD space, since this is their first storage device to be based on a SandForce processor.
This is the same second generation SF-2281 controller as that found in OCZ's top of the line Vertex 3 model, and is paired together with 25nm NAND Flash memory cells manufactured by IMFT.
As a result, the HyperX SSD is capable of reaching sequential read/write transfer speeds of 525MB/s and 480MB/s, respectively, and its 4K random performance is rated at 95,000 read IOPS (input/output operations per second) and 60,000 write IOPS.
Like most other SF-2000 SSD models, the HyperX connects to the system via a SATA 6Gbps interface, and Kingston has also added support for configurable over provisioning, enabling users to increase the drive's speed and performance at the expense of overall capacity.
The SSD offers either 120GB or 240GB of storage capacity, and just like most of Kingston's other solid state drives is also available in a kit form and is backed by a five-year warranty.
Besides the drive itself, this kit includes a 2.5-inch to 3.5-inch adapter, an external USB enclosure, the Acronis imaging software, a SATA cable and a screwdriver.
Both the 120GB and the 240GB HyperX solid state drives are available right now on Newegg. Pricing for the standalone 120GB unit is set at $269.99, while opting for the special kit version increase it to $299.99.
As far as the 240GB SSD is concerned, the standalone and kit versions are priced at $499.99 and $549.99, respectively.