Hynix SH920/910A 128GB SSD review

1. Introduction2. Hynix SH920 128GB3. Test Environment4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. IOMETER8. Closing Thoughts9. View All Pages

When systems like the Yoyotech Fi7EPOWER smashed world records for performance around the launch of the original Intel Core i7 965 in November 2008 it was booting from a 40GB Intel X25 drive that had a street price around the £400 mark.

In the 6 years that have passed since then, the humble Solid State Drive has moved from lifestyles of the ‘rich and famous' to being the drive of choice for anyone with an ounce of tech savvy.

Still, the cost per gigabyte can be around 8x that of a slower mechanical drive, which means we need to make a value judgement.

While the write performance of the SK hynix SH920/910A 128GB tops out around 330MB/sec, short of the speeds you're likely to achieve with the fastest Solid State Drives on the market, the read speed of up to 534MB/sec puts it near the top of what is possible through a SATA 6Gbps connector.

That leads us to the price. While memory is a commodity whose price will fluctuate over the course of a year, the SK hynix SH920/910A 128GB will be £49.99 at launch – exclusively from eBuyer. At this price it is going to be difficult to ignore.

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Pros:

• Fast drive.
• Attractive price point.
• Equally capable with compressible and incompressible data.
• IOPS is strong.

Cons:

• Facing a lot of competition in the market.
• Smaller drive has weaker sequential write performance.

KitGuru says: Useful size, major brand name and solid performance results mean that, at £49.99, this drive is a bit of a bargain. If you're not a ‘front to back' manufacturer of SSD products (i.e. from chips to final, packaged product), then seeing the name SK hynix entering the market with aggressive SSD pricing must be a worrying sight. For less than £50, this is a Must Have.

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