Last year, HardwareBunker went out to test the cheapest M.2 SSD 240Gb drive there was, no matter who made it, or what it was. We stumbled on the DREVO D1 M.2 2280 240GB Internal SSD, at the time it was the cheapest we could find in M.2 Form Factor.
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We have had the BX300 480Gb on the test bench for a while, so we have had a good run of its performance. We are going to see a lot of offers tempting you into your next SSD upgrade, is the Crucial BX300 is going to be one of them?
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Just like the Trion 150 line of SSDs by OCZ Kingston chose to use Toshiba 15nm 2D planar Triple-Level Cell (TLC) NAND flash memory for the brand new UV400 line (at least for now) but they paired it with the...
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With HD video and high resolution image capturing becoming common place on smart phones and inexpensive point-and-shoot cameras, this leaves us with a need for larger capacity and faster SD cards. Kingston has recognized this need over the years, and...
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New features & improvements of AIDA64 v5.75 AVX2 and FMA accelerated 64-bit benchmarks for Intel Kaby Lake and Broadwell-E/EN/EP/EX CPUs Microsoft Windows 10 Redstone RS1 Insider Preview support Improved support for AMD Zen Summit Ridge CPU AquaStream Ultimate and NZXT...
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Solid state drives are very different from the legacy HDD’s, but not just in a technology sense. HDD’s had pretty much hit their development peak when SSD’s started to take off. They have since seen a rebirth with much larger capacities and new technologies keeping them well ahead of the SSD variety of storage. This was more about capacity than anything else, whereas SSD’s have the untapped development edge to their name and having non storage manufacturers developing the technology.
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Kingston announced KC400 solid-state drive, the newest addition to its SSDNow family. Designed for enterprise client workloads, KC400 SSD is faster than a hard-disk drive delivering consistent performance for both compressible and incompressible data, and improved responsiveness in performance-hungry applications.
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We have a bit of a dual review today, in a couple of different ways. SSDs are the mainstay of enthusiast system configuration, in single or dual disk configuration. So it is only right that we have a look at single disk and RAID 0 configurations.
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Just like most current PCIex SSDs the HyperX Predator by Kingston is based on a “marriage” between a PCIex v.2 x4 lanes interface card and a M.2 2280 (m-key) form factor card. This pairing allows for much higher data transfer...
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SSDs in the Kingston HyperX line has always been known to come with very generous bundles, and the Savage 240GB is no exception. Right from the start, we are presented with the Kingston HyperX Savage 240GB solid state drive in...
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Kingston have always been manufacturers of RAM memory and flash devices, and in more recent years storage manufacturers. Why, well until the advent of SSD's, Kingston did not manufacture large storage discs, in fact we don't recall them ever creating an old school HDD. Let's jump ahead and enter the HyperX Savage range, their top SSD drive in their consumer range. Taking aim at the likes of Samsung and Crucial, the HyperX Savage range has some stiff competition
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The SSDNow KC310 features Phison’s PS3110-S10 8-channel NAND flash controller (supports AES 256Bit encryption and TCG) along with 19nm Toshiba MLC NAND flash memory modules and 1024MB DRAM cache by Nanya. It also fully supports power loss protection (firmware based),...
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The Kingston HyperX Predator PCIe 480GB is not sold at any Toys “R” Us stores near you, and with no little children to scare away, the company ships the SSD with the word “PREDATOR” — in red block letters and...
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The brown corrugated box containing the HyperX Skyn was sent to us from Fountain Valley, California. This city in Orange County has a small population of around 56,000, and is often referred to a commuter community, where many of its...
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Kingston Technology Company, Inc. is the world’s largest independent manufacturer of memory products. Kingston designs, manufactures and distributes memory products for desktops, laptops, servers, printers, and Flash memory products for PDAs, mobile phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players. Through its...
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