Last week I took a look at Kingston’s latest HyperX SATA SSD the Savage. Now today I have the chance to look at their flagship SSD the Predator. The Predator is an M.2 x4 drive that is available with and without a PCI Express card to M.2 adapter. For our testing today I will be using it with the adapter to see what everyone can expect for performance, but if your PC supports a x4 M.2 slot you can save yourself a lot of space and keep a PCIe slot open by running the drive through it. M.2 is the replacement for mSATA. Running the drive over M.2 gives a direct connection to the CPU and when run in a x4 configuration it gives us up to 20GB/s bandwidth. In other words for the first time in a long time we aren’t limited by the SATA connection. With that I’m extremely excited to see what the Predator is capable of!
Product Name: HyperX Predator M.2 PCIe G2 x4 480GB
Review Sample Provided by: Kingston
Written by: Wes
Pictures by: Wes
Amazon link: HERE
| Specifications | |
| Form factor | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe Gen 2.0 x 4 |
| Capacities | 240GB, 480GB |
| Controller | Marvell 88SS9293 |
| Power Consumption | 1.38W Idle / 1.4W Avg / 1.99W (MAX) Read / 8.25W (MAX) Write |
| Storage temperature | -40°C~85°C |
| Operating temperature | 0°C~70°C |
| Dimensions |
80mm x 22mm x 3.5mm (M.2) 180.98mm x 120.96mm x 21.59mm (with HHHL adapter – standard bracket) 181.29mm x 80.14mm x 23.40mm (with HHHL adapter – low-profile bracket) |
| Weight |
10g (M.2) 73g (with HHHL adapter – standard bracket) 68g (with HHHL adapter – low-profile bracket) |
| 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) |
240GB: 415TB 1.6 DWPD 480GB: 882TB 1.7 DWPD |
