Kingston Unveils First PCIe SSD: 1800 MB/s Read Speeds
Lookie what we found at Kingston's booth!
Kingston is showing off something special at CES this year. The company today demonstrated a prototype HyperX drive in its ballroom at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. The drive is the company's fastest SSD and its very first PCIe SSD.
The HyperX SSD, which doesn't yet have a name, utilizes the LSI SandForce SF3700 Flash controller and will off read speeds of up to 1800 MB/s. The photo you see below is an early one, (courtesy of Kingston because official shots weren't available at the time of writing) and, as we mentioned above, this is just a prototype, so the final name, color and look have not yet been determined. One thing we do know is that it will carry the HyperX branding.

Though Kingston hasn't yet commented on availability, the company said it will be the first of many offerings that will 'revolutionize' Kingston's SSD portfolio. We're excited!
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No, look at the picture. Clearly PCI Express.
not sure i agree with this because i know for a fact that loading bf3 and especially bf4 is way faster. get the best vehicles.
not sure i agree with this because i know for a fact that loading bf3 and especially bf4 is way faster. get the best vehicles. [/quotemsg]
There are a few reviews around, Toms has one and BF3 is one of the few that it makes a difference but it's just not enough to make up for the price gap. Get a 2.7TB disk drive for $130 or a 0.45TB SSD for $375 and not see much difference in most all tasks or save that $250-ish towards a better GPU or CPU. At this point SSDs are still kind of a waste.
not sure i agree with this because i know for a fact that loading bf3 and especially bf4 is way faster. get the best vehicles. [/quotemsg]
There are a few reviews around, Toms has one and BF3 is one of the few that it makes a difference but it's just not enough to make up for the price gap. Get a 2.7TB disk drive for $130 or a 0.45TB SSD for $375 and not see much difference in most all tasks or save that $250-ish towards a better GPU or CPU. At this point SSDs are still kind of a waste. [/quotemsg]
I'm planning on my next build to use an SSD as a boot drive, and a SSHD as my main drive