When it comes to SSD shopping you have to consider your budget, speed requirements, and also your brand preference. For me personally, I have been using Kingston drives in basically all of my builds as well as all of our test benches for a few years now. This is partly because Kingston has always been great about supporting us but it is also because when I visit their offices and their US manufacturing I watched them jump through hoops testing and retesting their Memory. I realized that they take their quality very serious and for me more than anything else I can’t afford to have my SSD die. So while there have been other drives that are faster, I stuck with them. Why am I telling you this today? Well that is because today I will be taking a look at a MUCH needed new SSD in their product line called the Savage. The Savage line from HyperX isn’t new, they have a nice set of RAM under the name already but today they officially introduce the new SSD. So kick back for a few while I dig into the HyperX Savage SSD and see what it is all about.
Product Name: Kingston HyperX Savage 240GB SSD
Review Sample Provided by: Kingston
Written by: Wes
Pictures by: Wes
Amazon Link: HERE
Specifications | |
Form factor: | 2.5" |
Interface | SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s) – with backwards compatibility to SATA Rev. 2.0 (3Gb/s) |
Capacities | 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, 960GB |
Controller | Phison PS3110-S10 |
Power Consumption | 0.39W Idle / 0.5W Avg / 1.4W (MAX) Read / 4.35W (MAX) Write |
Storage temperature | -40°C~85°C |
Operating temperature | 0°C~70°C |
Dimensions | 100.0mm x 69.9mm x 7.0mm |
Weight |
120GB, 240GB, 480GB: 96g 960GB: 92g |
Vibration operating | 2.17G Peak (7–800Hz) |
Vibration non-operating | 20G Peak (10–2000Hz) |
Life expectancy | 1 million hours MTBF |
Warranty/support | 3-year warranty with free technical support |
Total Bytes Written (TBW) |
120GB: 113TB 0.89 DWPD 240GB: 306TB 1.19 DWPD 480GB: 416TB 0.81 DWPD 960GB: 681TB 0.66 DWPD |
HyperX Savage SSD Upgrade Bundle Kit comes with: |
USB 3.0 enclosure 3.5′′ bracket and mounting screws SATA data cable Multi-bit screwdriver 7mm to 9.5mm adapter Acronis data migration software |