Home / Tech News / Featured Tech News / Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB SSD Review

Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB SSD Review

Rating: 9.0.

Today we are taking a look at the latest Solid State Drive from Kingston – the HyperX 3K 120GB which utilises the performance oriented Sandforce SF 2281 controller.

There is no doubt about it, the market today is flooded with solid state drives. Prices are dropping all the time and a wider audience are beginning to realise that adding one into a new system can dramatically improve the overall experience.

Sandforce SF-2281 powered drives are a dime a dozen in 2012, but Kingston have released the Kingston HyperX 3K series with a primary focus on getting the lowest possible price. The 120GB version we are reviewing today for instance is only £118.99 inc vat from Overclockers in the UK. Six months ago, a drive like this would have cost £50 more, at least.

‘3K' means that Kingston have moved to cost effective 3k PE (program/erase cycles) NAND. ‘3K' means that the drive should last 3,000 full writes of the disk capacity. In reality the 3K drives will still last a long time, many years, under normal use.

Specifications:

  • Capacity: 120GB
  • Controller: SandForce SF-2281
  • Maximum Read: 555MB/sec
  • Maximum Write: 510MB/sec
  • Max I/O Per Second (IOPS): 95000 IOPS (4KB File, READ)
  • NAND Flash: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
  • Interface: SATA-III / 6Gbps (Backwards compatible with SATA-II / 3Gbps)
  • TRIM Support (Requires Windows 7)
  • Warranty: 3 Years

Become a Patron!

Check Also

Among Us 3D announced with free PC demo for Steam Next Fest

Among Us became widely popular in its original 2D form but the development team at InnerSloth is looking to change things up soon with the release of Among Us 3D. As the name suggests, this is the same social deduction game we all know and love, but in a 3D environment instead. 

13 comments

  1. Yay, the first of many I hope. Nice job from Kingston indeed !

    120Gb for £99 who will crack that one? 🙂

  2. Scan are doing these for 65 quid now.

We've noticed that you are using an ad blocker.

Thank you for visiting KitGuru. Our news and reviews teams work hard to bring you the latest stories and finest, in-depth analysis.

We want to be as informative as possible – and to help our readers make the best buying decisions. The mechanism we use to run our business and pay some of the best journalists in the world, is advertising.

If you want to support KitGuru, then please add www.kitguru.net to your ad blocking whitelist or disable your adblocking software. It really makes a difference and allows us to continue creating the kind of content you really want to read.

It is important you know that we don’t run pop ups, pop unders, audio ads, code tracking ads or anything else that would interfere with the KitGuru experience. Adblockers can actually block some of our free content, such as galleries!