Kingston has launched the mass production of its latest solid state drive based on the SandForce SF2281 controller. The company can the drives, equipped with sata-600 interface and with capacities of 120GB and 240GB, deliver directly.
The specifications of the HyperX drives throughput speeds of 555MB/s read and 510MB/s for write, can drop. This is, of course, for sequential throughput. The 120GB drive is reading and writing of 4KB data blocks average, respectively, 20,000 and up to 60,000 iops pick up, while the 240GB large ssd to 40,000 and 60,000 iops, respectively. The maximum values amount to a 95,000 and 70,000 iops for read and write for the 120GB-HyperX and a 95,000 and 60,000 iops for the 240GB variant.
The HyperX ssds are built around the SF2281 controller from SandForce that is 120GB or 240GB flash memory drives. Intel provides the 25nm produced mlc-memory, certified at least five thousand, write-and delete-actions to undergo. The user can set the full capacity of the solid state drives use, or choose a part for overprovisioning to reserve to the life to maximize. Naturally, techniques like wear levelling it.
The drives as a single drive available and costs 230 euro for the 120GB version and about 439 euro for the 240GB version. For an additional cost of about fourteen euros the drives as an upgrade-kit. External enclosure, sata cable, a 3.5″adapter, screwdriver, and software to a hard disk to migrate be included.
