HyperX, a division of Kingston Technology Company, just released a new SSD called Predator. This top-notch solid state drive has whooping speeds of – 1.4GB/s to read, and 1GB/s to write. Predator will be available in 240GB for the price of 230$, and in 480GB for the price of 460$. Kingston.com is stating that a 960GB version is in the works, and will be available for the public starting Q1/Q2 .
They are not cheap, and they are also not expensive at all, considering the fact that it also comes with a 3-year warranty and Kingston claims that it can write up to 805GB per day, and still maintain a , tech-wise, healthy aspect – it’s more than the usual user writes on a drive on a daily basis.
“As enthusiast desktop users and datacenter customers seek greater performance to break through 6Gb/s SATA limitation, Marvell’s X4-lane PCIe SSD Controller 88SS9293 provides lightning fast, next-generation SSD performance,” said Mike Chen, director of product marketing, Storage BU, Marvell. “We are proud to work with the HyperX team to deliver higher bandwidth and throughput for client systems and datacenter customers seeking to maximize storage performance.” It’s the first time we see Marvell 88SS9293 controller being used on a shipping product, and I, for one, can’t wait to see what other boundaries Kingston, working hand in hand with HyperX and Marvell, will break.
The PCIe interface in M.2 form factor, with an optional HHHL adapter, will ensure next-generation platform support with an M.2 PCIe slot, and also for existing motherboards without an M.2 socket.
“HyperX is happy to unleash its fastest HyperX SSD to date. The PCIe form factor showcases extreme speeds while processing both compressed and uncompressed data,” said Lawrence Yang, business manager, HyperX. “We worked closely with Marvell to engineer this HyperX Predator PCIe SSD for higher performance and it more than delivers through its ultra-responsive multi-tasking and faster system performance.” HyperX is revolutionizing the industry with their high-performance products targeted not only towards businesses, enterprises, home users, but also towards die hard gamers – sponsoring over 20 eSports teams all over the world, and being the main sponsor of Intel Extreme Masters.
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