Kingston HyperX SandForce SSD Bundle Kit

Test Rig:

Motherboard: MSI Z68A-GD65G3
Processor: Intel Core i3 2100 dual core
Data Drive: Western Digital Green 1TB
Operating System: Windows 7 ultimate
Video Card: Sparkle Nvidia GTX480+
Case: Thermaltake Level 10 GT
PSU: NZXT HALE 90 750

Installation:

Because of the hard drive trays provided in my case I did not require the 2.5″ conversion bracket. the provided screws worked perfectly though. Windows was up and running from a DVD install in 13.3 minutes.

Testing:

Utilizing the Kingston HyperX as the primary operating system drive provides us very accurate benchmarks for what the drives actual usage would be however, it prevents us from running the Write Benchmarks for most synthetic Benchmarks. I am very skeptical of Kingston’s boasted speeds over 500MB/s for both read and writes. The manufacturer performed their testing with ATTO Disk Benchmark 2.41 and PCMARK Vantage HDD Suite lets see how it stacks up.

Atto Results:

Take a close look at those results. For all Sizes larger than 128Mb this drive writes Better than manufacturers listed performance. The Read speeds are virtually spot on with manufacturer specs starting at 512Mb. I ran this test four times. That result reproduces.

Crystal Disk Mark:

Opening this benchmark and taking the results from the default settings will produce some interesting numbers.

These numbers a remarkably different than that of ATTO. The Default settings for Crystal Disk mark is a random data format that is not compressible by the drives processor, consequently the measurements differ. Take a look at the settings and performance difference when we use the 0 fill and 1 fill methods as opposed to random.

Settings

0 Fill

1 Fill

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