badtaylorx
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well now .....im thoroughly impressed.....well done Kingston....well done oc3d!!!
Kingston Hyper X 240GB SSD Review
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I play ArmA:2 and that is a game that really benefits from a fast SSD The Maps and game data is around 8Gb and this has to stream from the hard drive to RAM in relatively small chunks. Due to restrictions in the game engine it never occupies more than about 2Gb or system RAM. Quite a few ArmA players have SSD's and could be said to be a group of early adopters. something like this SSD is well high on my list of things to have. A higher priority than a new G/Card. save save save....
ruthless_villain
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to be fair they are already losing a few million on each one they make...
DwarfAdigginAhole
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Hmmmmm, should I get this..or the Corair GT 120GB, or maybe even the Vertex 3?
alienware
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Now now VB, we all know you can pop down the local car dealership and pick up a Ferarri for a tenner.. So how DARE Bugatti charge that for a Veyron !
Can you point to some reviews to support this? Its too late for me as I already invested in a pair of Vertex 3s but I'm curious. I had only found great things said about the Vertex 3s and not much info on the Corsair Force drives when I was building my last rig. At 249 USD (150 GBP?), they seemed like the right price, so i bought 2 (~300gbp) and am running them in Raid 0.
Wouldn't it be better to run a pair of smaller drives in Raid 0 than spend 400 GBP on a 240gb ssd?
Rastalovich
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No time soon. They're still considered "a luxury item". Similarly to why a 6990 OC SUPER MATRIX BAD BOI XXX 10G card costs £2000 (and the rest).
It's still a long process of setting the prices extremely high, as high as they feel they'll get away with for the small quantity they make, and as they become more popular, drop the price until the sales numbers balance the pricing.
The component costs are rediculously low in comparison, especially when you disect these drives and compare 60g to 240g. The p1ss take are the ones where the 240g is the same as the 120g, but with chips missing off the pcb. Not everyone does that, but it happens.
You think about it.. 240g... if someone were to offer you a 250g traditional hard drive for your pc, you'd laugh at them. Swap in the SSD and you still got to wait for your ISP to give you bandwidth to see your webpage, even tho it took you 10s to boot the machine up.
Still think in the long run SSDs need to mature. The way they've gone about the processing on hardware seems silly when you consider what they basically do, and consider how fast even your DDR pc is at read/writing to just the memory.
Ya93sin
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It works, but it will cause performance degradation, as TRIM isn't put in properly (I'm not completely sure how it works with Garbage Collection).
Wow amazing speeds and looks, one of the few SSDs that I would want to mount near a case window for people to see.
Also I know you've had bad experiences with OCZ before Tom, but they appear to be the most popular brand of SSD atm, although considering what you said about their Vertex 2, they probably wouldn't want to lend you one.
Only reason OCZ are popular is because they are cheap, have you seen the number of recalls they have to do? Their drives might look good in terms of numbers, but they degrade massively.
Moving on...
I can't watch the video because where I am atm the internet is too slow, but..
For CrystalDiskMark, what settings do you use (as in what filesize and how many runs/passes)?
Also it would be interesting to see performance degradation, and how the drive copes with being filled up. Say on a graph you could plot certain things' speeds against the % capacity filled.
Nice review though, and a nice SSD too by the looks of it.
What video?
Ya93sin
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Oh there's no video? In other forums the youtube video embed was taking about 30s longer than the rest of the page to come up, so I thought there was a vid
Even the youtube page takes about a minute to load up sometimes
Hmm, I remember paying £400 for a 4GB HD and I still have it in my drawer. Can't get myself to part with it
Yes they are expensive and manufacturing costs don't warrant this. But the development costs unfortunately do! This is the fastest or 1 of the fastest SSD's out there atm and that title costs. Just look at GPU's... Anyway, if we all actually checked what we used on our drives and deleted the crap, temporary folders and downloads, etc. and put our videos/pictures/mp3's onto cheap mechanical drives, then 240GB is just fine for size. That means uber speed for all your applications, games, OS and fun bits all on 1 mega drive.
Simples...
Simples...
Rastalovich
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Nah that doesn't cut it either when you have been able to buy these for a good while now.
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/220g...-1222-pci-e-x4-ssd-read-730mb-s-write-690mb-s
X3 are the newest ones I think, christ knows how fast they are. £362 tho.. (I know it's ocz
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http://www.scan.co.uk/products/220g...-1222-pci-e-x4-ssd-read-730mb-s-write-690mb-s
X3 are the newest ones I think, christ knows how fast they are. £362 tho.. (I know it's ocz
Rastalovich
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hehe yeah.
FYI, I just seen the X3 on Scan's Today thing for £465.... 1000M read times ! z-o-m-g.
That would be Veyron e-peen
FYI, I just seen the X3 on Scan's Today thing for £465.... 1000M read times ! z-o-m-g.
That would be Veyron e-peen
Natashaful
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Taking all Free samples of unwanted SSD's
