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Kingston HyperX Max 3.0 128GB Drive Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell November 22, 2010 Drive Caddy, Featured Announcement, Hard Drives, Laptop / Mobile, Mobile, SSD Drives

I have been using HDTach for many years now and always find it is an invaluable benchmark to ascertain potential levels of performance. HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices such as hard drives, removable drives (ZIP/JAZZ), flash devices, and RAID arrays. HD Tach uses custom device drivers and other low level Windows interfaces to bypass as many layers of software as possible and get as close to the physical performance of the device possible.

Again we see huge differences when moving from the USB 2.0 to USB 3.0 interface. Our average read rate is around 160MB/s via USB 3.0 which drops to 33MB/s on the older technology – a 378% speed difference, not only noticeable in our benchmarking, but in our real world file performance testing (more on this later).

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9 comments

  1. Garth
    November 22, 2010 at 2:36 pm

    Holy Snit batman, thats a performance USB drive and a half ! I need to gets me a USB 3 controller 🙁

  2. Samuel
    November 22, 2010 at 2:37 pm

    Damn, thats another great product from Kingston. Excellent drive, toshiba controller is proven too, good choice.

  3. Thomas
    November 22, 2010 at 2:39 pm

    This is a great idea, only problem is, people in work etc, will more than likely be stuck on USB 2 machines for eons. so unless you are just using it for single machine or offline backups, its expensive !

  4. Garry
    November 22, 2010 at 2:40 pm

    Well this is rather sexy innit? the usb 3 drives ive seen reviewed so far were lucky to hit 100MB so this is vastly superior. nice work Kingston.

  5. Ned
    November 22, 2010 at 2:42 pm

    USB 2.0 really does need replacing. ive an old 500gb USB 2.0 drive and its facking painful to back up files. I normally do it overnight when im kipping. Look forward to one of these, but it will be a while as I just bought a motherboard a few months ago.

  6. Tech Head
    November 22, 2010 at 2:43 pm

    Spend £15 on a USB 3.0 controller, best way to get usb 3 without forking out 150 quid again for a motherboard.

  7. Tri Color
    November 22, 2010 at 2:50 pm

    Awesome, im buying a 64gb for my documents. any rough time for retail? mid dec? start? dec 2011? lol

  8. Fluffychicken
    November 22, 2010 at 3:26 pm

    I think this is the first time ive really seen usb 3.0 external drives really shine with the performance. excellent performance results.

  9. Chaos
    November 22, 2010 at 5:33 pm

    massive gains over USB 2.0 very nice for an external drive

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