Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB m.2 PCIe SSD Review

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80% Random Read Mixed Workload

The HyperX Predator 480GB delivers exceptional 4KB random write performance, though random read performance turns out to be lower than some of our comparison products. Moving that over to random mixed workloads, the Predator is faster than some SSDs that came before. But the high random write performance isn't enough to challenge Samsung's SM951.

Chris Ramseyer
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Chris Ramseyer was a senior contributing editor for Tom's Hardware. He tested and reviewed consumer storage.