Kingston introduces the Solid State Drive SATA 6Gbps HyperX Savage
It arrives on the market a new family of SSD produced by Kingston, indicated by the name HyperX Savage. Controller moves from Phison S10 quad-core to eight channels, these units are placed at the top of the production Kingston with SATA 6 Gbps.
Kingston presents HyperX Savage a new series of SSD with SATA 6Gbps interface, designed to offer maximum performance (of course with the bond interface, not absolute). The potential customer is then the user and the consumer demanding gamer, a bit like all the Kingston components credited HyperX brand.
The units HyperX Savage are the controller Phison S10 quad-core, with eight channels, allowing these units to reach stated performance of 560 MB/s read and 530 MB/s write and IOPS read/Writing of 100K and 89K respectively.
It is a controller already used by other brands such as Mushkin, Patriot and Corsair, designed to offer both high performance and features more typical of the enterprise sector. It is not clear at the time what kind of memory Kingston has chosen to adopt, if the asynchronous NAND flash type MLC 16 nm Micron as Patriot, or memory to 19 nanometers in line with Toshiba as Corsair Neutron XT.
The controller Phison S10 still allows to use without problems type memory TLC (three bits per cell) that MLC (two bits per cell). The line of SSD Kingston HyperX Savage is available in four capacities from 120 GB up to 960 GB; the offer is made only by the SSD and a limited bundle of accessories, or a more comprehensive package that includes everything from a chassis to create a USB 3.0 external SSD, the Acronis True Image software to duplicate the existing data on the SSD and a support for mounting in slot 3.5 inch.
Aesthetically was chosen an aggressive look, while on the front of the range price category includes cuts 120 GB, 240 GB, 480 GB and 960 GB. Each of these units may be purchased or as a single unit, or with a bundle that includes housing USB 3.0 by 2.5, bracket 3.5″ mounting screws, SATA cable, software hard drive for data migration, screwdriver tips and multiple adapter from 7 mm to 9.5 mm.
