Kingston Shows External USB 3.0 HyperX SSD
We get a peek at another high-performance external SSD coming this summer.
Kingston demonstrated at a private event in Taiwan an early working model of its upcoming external SSD solution that runs on the USB 3.0 interface.
As part of its high-performance line, the external SSD will bear the HyperX brand as well as the blue-colored theme. The official target speed is 195 MB/s sequential read and 160 MB/s sequential write, but we got to see a real working model in action.
The drive comes with an external cable that's able to auto-detect and switch between USB 2.0 and 3.0. The drive itself will also indicate which interface it is running on, with a green light indicating USB 2.0 and a blue light signaling USB 3.0
The drives will come in 64, 128 and 256GB capacities. Kingston isn't ready to talk about price or which controller and NAND chips that it is using for this product yet, but we'll find out soon before the planned August 2010 launch date.








Are you really going to store movies and music on an SSD? Even if you did, would you need that kind of speed?
What use is a smaller, faster external drive?
Are you really going to store movies and music on an SSD? Even if you did, would you need that kind of speed?
What use is a smaller, faster external drive?
Off topic, what coolers are they using in that case?!?!
I would think the benefiet would be more for installing intensive programs CADD, photoshop ect on something like a labtop that can only contain 1 drive, So lets say your main is a SSD already but your size requirements arnt large, but u run alot of intensive programs..
It's Kingston
You know, the "memory" company.
I like this, because you could take your drive with you, and then the computer will not boot up. great computer security!!
Two words: Virtual Machines
My VMs run as fast on my laptop with an SSD than they do on my desktop with a regular HD - even though the CPU on the desktop blows the laptop away. Additionally, if you're a developer-on-the-go, being able to easily move your whole workspace, email, development tools, documents, etc around from machine to machine (as long as the machine has VMWare installed) kicks ass.
Now if only someone would just put USB3 ports on a laptop that has a decent display and doesn't look/feel like a PoS I'd be able to upgrade my laptop, get one of these drives, and stop copying my VHD snapshot-files back and forth... Thought Dell was going to put USB3 on this year's Covet, but apparently that's not the case...
Cheers,
CList
Surely this is not a micro sd card so 4k should be minm 80MB/s at least.
512k ?
My XP64 sp2 can go max 64k and have to have 64k minm for OCZ ssd to get it up to rated speed.
Don't tell me to downgrade to Vista or Win7 as the performance knock is not worth the partial speed gained using larger 256k / 512k on I7c-930.
Can anyone comprehend this?
Seriously what did he say? +1
Either way, I'm not going to get my hopes up that the price would be something I'd pay for when I'd probably manage x2 the storage at the same price if not less.