Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB Solid State Drive Review

Anvil’s Storage Utilities is a new benchmarking utility that we have started using here at eTeknix, it’s completely free to download and has the ability to test mainly hard drives and solid state drives, but also any other form of storage medium that you can throw at it. As well as testing the drive in a variety of benchmarking tests, it also has a drive endurance test that consistently reads and writes data to the selected medium to give days, months and potentially even years of use in a shorter period of time to see how the drive copes in the longer term.

When we compare the IOPs performance between compressible and incompressible data, like sequential read and write speeds there is a drop in performance seen when using incompressible data, however this is still a SandForce trait and not a fault of the flash itself.