Kingston HyperX 3K SSD

On June 16 2012 01:40 Myrmidon wrote:
It's an SSD with SandForce SF-2281 controller (typical firmware) and 3k P/E cycle-rated toggle NAND. 3k cycles is no concern for a desktop workload, especially with a SandForce controller, which has low write amplification, and toggle NAND means it's among the fastest of the SandForce drives, so among the fastest consumer SSDs on the market. Comparing with other modern SSDs for desktop usage, it's the difference between really fast and really fast, so I wouldn't be too impressed with the performance.

As is typical with SandForce, it will probably work just fine and most likely you will be happy with it, but don't say you weren't warned if you run into a hardware incompatibility or BSOD issue.

On June 16 2012 01:37 CatNzHat wrote:
If you're going to be using it for mass storage, save yourself the money and get a 7200 RPM HDD. You don't need all your storage to be solid state, the only reason you'd be using SSDs for mass storage would be a surplus of money, or need to transfer large amounts of data quickly on a regular basis. If your motherboard supports it, you might be better off with a caching solution (using the SSD to cache frequently accessed files, and relying on the HDD for storing less-frequently accessed files such as movies, pictures, old documents).

Hopefully this opens your mind to more options, and you don't feel locked into getting a fairly expensive SSD that you won't make full use of, and will fill up relatively quickly.

HyperX is not better in terms of read/write speeds compared to other SSDs with the same controllers and type of NAND flash, if you are really concerned with speeds then what are you doing here, you should be analyzing benchmarks and comparing pricing vs performance vs capacity with nifty line graphs and pie charts.

TL;DR: If you just want mass storage, get an HDD, if you really want an SSD, establish performance needs, and then compare prices.