Seven to eight years ago enthusiasts, professionals and hardcore gamers who decided to trust a brand new and revolutionary storage technology called solid state drives only had products from a handful of manufacturers to choose from including Intel, Micron, SanDisk, Kingston, OCZ and Corsair.

- Constant Performance (For Some

August 10, 2015 by Lawrence Lee Product Kingston HyperX Savage 480GB 2.5-inch Solid-state Drive Manufacturer Kingston Technology Street Price US$200 US$215 (upgrade bundle) Compared to most solid-state drive manufacturers, Kingston has shown a surprising lack of bias as to what controller goes into...

In a sea saturated with solid state drives from every memory manufacturer under the sun, the Kingston HyperX Savage 240GB is one product that stands out -- literally. It does not strike me as common for an SSD to look good (Not saying they are usually ugly), but the HyperX Savage's eye catching red...

With both their enthusiast and entry level models recently refreshed it comes as little surprise to see Kingston round out their new lean and mean lineup with a more mainstream orientated option. That option is new new HyerX Savage.

Kingston is one of the companies that was affected during the SandForce merry-go-round of buyouts and acquisitions. Until recently, its HyperX SSD brand shipped exclusively with SandForce controllers. But that's changing. Kingston is no stranger to Phison's technology, either.

A return to the premium accessory package; Looks good with HyperX Savage RAM

Price; Real World Performance (what really matters)

The HyperX Savage SSD is available in stand-alone drive package or in upgrade bundle kit form and it replaces the Kingston Hyper 3K in the HyperX lineup. Capacity options range from 120GB to 960GB, all of which utilize a Phison PS3110-S10 controller with promised sequential speeds of 560/530 MB/s...

It wasn't until the other day that I actually realized I was barely paying attention to differences between SATA II and SATA III SSDs. I rarely benchmark any of the first generation drives; there is no sense, because the differences between then and now are numerically miles apart.

Exceptional Value; Bundle Price is Equal to most other prices for Single Drive; Eye Appealing Design; Acronis Software; Multi-Bit Screwdriver; USB 3.0 Enclosure; 7mm design; 3.5" Backplate; 7 to 9mm extender

3 Year Warranty; 1,000,000 MTBF

Kingston offers a wide variety of memory and storage products. They have grown to be the world's largest independent manufacturer of memory products. With global headquarters in Fountain Valley, California, Kingston employs more than 4,000 people worldwide.

Kingston is one of the known names in the Indian market thanks to its memory products such as RAM sticks, flash storage drives, wireless storage drives and so on. So much so, that even street vendors claim to be selling ‘Kingston' branded pen drives, which are obviously fake.

HyperX Savage 240GB SSD is well designed gaming storage. In all our tests results were good and in most cases we could see higher performance than that declared by Kingston. There were no problems with compatibility and everything was working as expected.

High performance; Looks great; Free cloning software; 3.5″ bracket; Three year warranty