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Following on from the Overclockers most awesome competition to win a HyperX Savage 240gb (which I managed to win somehow) is my super, wicked, smashing, great review. Well my attempt at one anyway!!
Kingston – HyperX SAVAGE – 240GB SSD
Features:-
Powered by Phison S10 controller.
Up to 560MB/s read and 530MB/s write.
The Review:-
My local friendly neighbourhood DPD delivery driver came a tap tapping at my door this morning. In his hands he was brandishing a very nice package (ooh errr) and it was for little 'ol me. It was a prize that I had won from Overclockers, in the form of HyperX Savage SSD.
Eagerly I tore into the packaging looking for the thing I have been waiting on since winning the competition last week. After what seemed like an eternity, there it was in all its glory, a pack of Haribo Tangfastics! Less I forget, a mighty fine SSD drive was in there too. I quickly ate the Haribo's whilst my son and daughter stared in my direction but no, these were my Haribo and I was not going to be sharing.
After the sugar rush wore off I took to examining the SSD.
Looking at the packaging, it came in a reasonably small box with a rather nifty eye catching design. SAVAGE it says in bold red lettering. SAVAGE! Surely it has to be a speed demon with a name like that?
Opening the box I was greeted with a rather in your face SSD drive. With its striking red, black and silver design its not going to appeal to everyone that’s for sure. If your in the market for a subtle, merge into the background aesthetic to your drive then you need to look elsewhere. For me however, it is a thing of beauty and would sit happily in my Phanteks EVOLV rig that I recently finished building (which as it happens is of a red and black theme).
Included with the drive is HyperX sticker, Acronis True Imager HD Software activation key, Getting started instruction leaflet, spacer, screws and 2.5” to 3.5” metal bracket (which also has a Hyperx logo stuck to it). Its also worth mentioning here that the drive comes with FREE technical support and a 3 year guarantee (stated on the outer box).
So after looking at it, there was nothing else to do other than slap it in my rig and fire that bad lad up. After installing I fired up my rig and . . . . . . . . nothing but a black screen. It seems that the drive did not like what my existing Overclock and M.2 drive were selling, so a quick reset of the BIOS and I was back in action.
As expected the drive was not showing in Windows, so a quick fire up of the Disk Management application to format and create a Primary Partition was needed. Windows now reported a usable 239.791gb of space for all of my storage needs.
I’m not normally one to benchmark my storage medium as a rule but I know a lot of you love that kind of stuff, so I took to running a few benchmarks to see if it performs as advertised (for those that are interested my rig details are in my signature).
The packaging states that the drive is 240gb which I can confirm minus the usual overheads it is. It also states that the read speed is 560MB/S and can write at 530MB/S. In my experience its quite normal for the speeds to be a little below when testing at home.
SSDLife-Pro reported the disk as 240gb with 239.9gb usable space with TRIM being supported. Interestingly though the SSD drive does not provide any throughput statistics.
So then my 'little' SAVAGE what say you? How fast are you really?
First off I fired up CrystalDiskMark and set it loose on the SAVAGE.
WOW, it weighed in at 561.3MB/S Read and 539.0MB/S Write. Well then Boys and Girls, that's faster in both the stated Read and Write speeds. Overall it performed as well, if not slightly better than I was expecting.
Next up I ran it through AS SSD Copy-Benchmark to see how it faired.
And then, just because I could I ran further benchmarks:-
Now I do not have a wealth of SSD's that I can actually compare it to in the real world. I could trawl the net and pick out statistics but feel this would be a bit like cheating. So unless Overclockers want to send me there entire SSD range (I wont mind 5UB honest) for testing you will have to make do with the results in isolation.
I do rock a Samsung M.2 SM951, which to compare this drive against would not really be fair (completely different animal). That said (bragging rights insert here) here's what you too could be rocking should you have rig capable of brandishing such an epic bit of kit:-
My Conclusion
Kingston have done themselves proud with this drive. It looks the part and certainly does have a quality feel to it. Comes with all the bits and pieces you are going to need and for the price as advertised on Overclockers represents good value for your money.
Speeds are as stated by Kingston (well actually its a little quicker) and looking online is comparable to the latest drives out there.
As mentioned it cant compare to an M.2 on an X99 platform but as an SSD drive (in my opinion) this drive is up there with the best of them.
Would I purchase this drive? If I was after an SSD drive today then yes, I would definitely recommend this drive and would purchase one myself.
So now my review is done what lies in store for my 'little' SAVAGE? Quite honestly, I’m going to keep her. She looks great in my rig and performs well, so will utilise the drive for my photos / Lightroom.
Finally I would just like to say thanks again to Overclockers / 5UB for selecting me to win this competition. You guys ROCK!
She's a keeper!
Kingston – HyperX SAVAGE – 240GB SSD
Features:-
Powered by Phison S10 controller.
Up to 560MB/s read and 530MB/s write.
The Review:-
My local friendly neighbourhood DPD delivery driver came a tap tapping at my door this morning. In his hands he was brandishing a very nice package (ooh errr) and it was for little 'ol me. It was a prize that I had won from Overclockers, in the form of HyperX Savage SSD.
Eagerly I tore into the packaging looking for the thing I have been waiting on since winning the competition last week. After what seemed like an eternity, there it was in all its glory, a pack of Haribo Tangfastics! Less I forget, a mighty fine SSD drive was in there too. I quickly ate the Haribo's whilst my son and daughter stared in my direction but no, these were my Haribo and I was not going to be sharing.
After the sugar rush wore off I took to examining the SSD.
Looking at the packaging, it came in a reasonably small box with a rather nifty eye catching design. SAVAGE it says in bold red lettering. SAVAGE! Surely it has to be a speed demon with a name like that?
Opening the box I was greeted with a rather in your face SSD drive. With its striking red, black and silver design its not going to appeal to everyone that’s for sure. If your in the market for a subtle, merge into the background aesthetic to your drive then you need to look elsewhere. For me however, it is a thing of beauty and would sit happily in my Phanteks EVOLV rig that I recently finished building (which as it happens is of a red and black theme).
Included with the drive is HyperX sticker, Acronis True Imager HD Software activation key, Getting started instruction leaflet, spacer, screws and 2.5” to 3.5” metal bracket (which also has a Hyperx logo stuck to it). Its also worth mentioning here that the drive comes with FREE technical support and a 3 year guarantee (stated on the outer box).
So after looking at it, there was nothing else to do other than slap it in my rig and fire that bad lad up. After installing I fired up my rig and . . . . . . . . nothing but a black screen. It seems that the drive did not like what my existing Overclock and M.2 drive were selling, so a quick reset of the BIOS and I was back in action.
As expected the drive was not showing in Windows, so a quick fire up of the Disk Management application to format and create a Primary Partition was needed. Windows now reported a usable 239.791gb of space for all of my storage needs.
I’m not normally one to benchmark my storage medium as a rule but I know a lot of you love that kind of stuff, so I took to running a few benchmarks to see if it performs as advertised (for those that are interested my rig details are in my signature).
The packaging states that the drive is 240gb which I can confirm minus the usual overheads it is. It also states that the read speed is 560MB/S and can write at 530MB/S. In my experience its quite normal for the speeds to be a little below when testing at home.
SSDLife-Pro reported the disk as 240gb with 239.9gb usable space with TRIM being supported. Interestingly though the SSD drive does not provide any throughput statistics.
So then my 'little' SAVAGE what say you? How fast are you really?
First off I fired up CrystalDiskMark and set it loose on the SAVAGE.
WOW, it weighed in at 561.3MB/S Read and 539.0MB/S Write. Well then Boys and Girls, that's faster in both the stated Read and Write speeds. Overall it performed as well, if not slightly better than I was expecting.
Next up I ran it through AS SSD Copy-Benchmark to see how it faired.
And then, just because I could I ran further benchmarks:-
Now I do not have a wealth of SSD's that I can actually compare it to in the real world. I could trawl the net and pick out statistics but feel this would be a bit like cheating. So unless Overclockers want to send me there entire SSD range (I wont mind 5UB honest) for testing you will have to make do with the results in isolation.
I do rock a Samsung M.2 SM951, which to compare this drive against would not really be fair (completely different animal). That said (bragging rights insert here) here's what you too could be rocking should you have rig capable of brandishing such an epic bit of kit:-
My Conclusion
Kingston have done themselves proud with this drive. It looks the part and certainly does have a quality feel to it. Comes with all the bits and pieces you are going to need and for the price as advertised on Overclockers represents good value for your money.
Speeds are as stated by Kingston (well actually its a little quicker) and looking online is comparable to the latest drives out there.
As mentioned it cant compare to an M.2 on an X99 platform but as an SSD drive (in my opinion) this drive is up there with the best of them.
Would I purchase this drive? If I was after an SSD drive today then yes, I would definitely recommend this drive and would purchase one myself.
So now my review is done what lies in store for my 'little' SAVAGE? Quite honestly, I’m going to keep her. She looks great in my rig and performs well, so will utilise the drive for my photos / Lightroom.
Finally I would just like to say thanks again to Overclockers / 5UB for selecting me to win this competition. You guys ROCK!
She's a keeper!
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congrats on the win!
