Welcome to my unboxing of the Kingston
HyperX SSD. This is their first HyperX
branded SSD, which to me indicates that
Kingston is fairly confident in the
performance, excuse me. Yeah, I guess we'll just keep
rolling then, of this particular unit. So this is featuring a sandforce
controller. It runs controller controller. It runs on SATA 3 6 Gbit per
second. And what they are claiming is that you can improve system performance
by 60%. And let's find out what that asked based on PC Mark system
performance suite. Well, I will go ahead and say that Kingston is entirely wrong
to make that statement. Completely 100% wrong. You want to know why? because
system performance will increase dramatically more than 60% by going from
a hard drive to an SSD. That is a very
conservative statement. Now, in some scenarios, you'll see 0%. This is true.
However, in other scenarios, like for example, when you are
uh in the middle of a of an intense task and you all of a sudden you like you
want to do something else, it can perform double, triple, quadruple, even
10 times faster than a system that's still relying on an ancient mechanical
hard drive. So, this particular drive is rated for reads of up to 525 megabytes
per second and writes of up to 480 megabytes per second. It comes with a
three-year warranty, 24/7 tech support,
and it also includes a bunch of accessories that other SSD manufacturers
do not include, which I will show you when I
figure out how to get the box open. There we go. All right. It is also by
far the sickest looking SSD that I have
ever seen. It is fully Kingston HyperX
looking. It's got a big metal X on the top of it with a blue background with
the Kingston guy and the Kingston logo. On the back, it has a SATA power
connector as well as a SATA 3 6 Gbit per second data connector and some jumpers
that you probably won't need to use. It has some mounting holes on this side,
some mounting holes on this side, and some mounting holes on the bottom,
including a warranty void if removed sticker. So, don't remove that or your
warranty will be voided. I have no warranty on this particular drive, though anyway. It's very heavy. It's
quite heavy. uh due to the plastic housing would be my guess and the metal
housing. It's very thick housing, very robust feeling. Um something to bear in
mind about those mounting holes that are on the drive is that those are standard.
This will fit in your notebook. It will fit in your desktop with this adapter
right here. So here is a Kingston HyperX branded 2 and 1/2 in to 3 and 1/2 in SSD
adapter. So you go ahead, you put your drive on there, which will look nice and
sharp. Look at that. See, Kingston Kingston considers things. This is smart
because when you put the drive on, you can still see the HyperX logo on the
adapter. Check that out. See little things. We've also got included screws.
Included other more different screws. So, these ones are for mounting the SSD
to the adapter. These are for mounting the adapter to your case. We have a
solid state drive installation guide. Includes hard drive cloning software.
Very nice. including that hard drive cloning software is a big value ad in my
opinion because especially for notebook users, it allows you to easily move your
OS from your hard drive to your SSD.
They also include a screwdriver. Check that out. So, you got a flathead and two
different Phillips heads. And it's in the convenient form factor of a pen-like
object, which you can put the bits back in, you can close back up, and then you
can put it in your front pocket, and it
can sit there like that. Proud Kingston HyperX user. All right. Next, we have an
external drive enclosure. Now, why would Kingston include this? Very good
question, and I will provide you with the answer. The reason Kingston would
include this HyperX branded external hard drive enclosure is so that you have
a way when you unlock it and put your
desktop, your old desktop drive, your hard drive in there, you will have a way
to a transfer the data using their cloning software to your new SSD and B,
you will have a use for your old hard drive now. So, you can just go ahead and
put that cover back on.
Put the cover back
on, lock it in place, plug in the USB
cable, which they have conveniently included, and now you have an external hard drive to go along with your SSD
equipped notebook. They've also included a SATA cable, which if you are
installing it in a desktop, you will need. So, it comes with everything you
need to install it in a notebook or a desktop or even in your shirt pocket,
which once again, I'm trying to demo and I don't have one. So, it is not working.
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