Introduction
SSDs are becoming more and more mainstream these days, with costs gradually coming down making them more accesible in more useful capacities, to more people. SATA III is a recent development that has seen these solid state discs almost doubling their read/write sequential performance, something that seems rediculous considering the relatively slow speed of our fastests HDDs just a few years ago.
Today I’m looking at one of these new SATA 6GBps drives from Kingston. It’s part of their HyperX range with a 240GB capacity. Let’s see how it performs.
Features
- SandForce controller technololgy
- High-speed SATA Rev 3.0 (6 Gb/s) transfer speeds
- Performance – incredible speeds for advanced gaming, multitasking, and multimedia computing power
- Reliable – much less likely to fail than a standard hard drive
- Shock-Resistant – dropping your notebook no longer means losing your data
- Cool & Quiet – runs silent and with no moving mechanical parts to generate heat
- Innovative – uses NAND Flash memory components
- Supports S.M.A.R.T. TRIM and Garbage Collection
- Guaranteed – three-year Kingston warranty, 24/7 tech support
Specifications
- Form factor – 2.5″
- Controller – 2nd Generation SandForce Controller SF-2281
- Components – Intel 25nm Compute-Quality MLC NAND (5k P/E Cycles)
- Interface – SATA Rev 3.0 (6Gb/s), SATA Rev 2.0 (3Gb/s)
- Capacity – 240 GB
- Sequential reads 6Gb/s 3 – 525MB/s for all capacities
- Sequential writes 6Gb/s – 480MB/s for all capacities
- Sustained Random 4k Read/Write – 240GB – 40,000/60,000 IOPS
- Max Random 4K R/W – 240GB – 95,000/60,000 IOPS
- Supports S.M.A.R.T. TRIM and Garbage Collection
- Warranty/support – Three-year warranty with free 24/7 support
- Power Consumption – 240GB: 0.455 W (TYP) Idle / 1.6 W (TYP) Read / 2.05 W (TYP) Write
- Dimensions – 69.85 x 100 x 9.5mm
- Weight – 81g
- Operating Temperatures – 0°C ~ 70°C
- Storage Temperatures -40°C ~ 85°C
- Shock Resistance – 1500G
- Vibration Operating – 2.17G
- Vibration Non-Operating – 20G
- MTBF – 1,000,000 Hrs
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