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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

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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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