Performance
All tests were performed on the ASUS Rampage IV Extreme motherboard using Intel SATA3 controller and the latest Intel AHCI drivers.
Benchmarks are as usual popular so easy to compare for all our readers. Except added recently PCMark8, all other benchmarks are free and easy to find in the Internet.
At this point I wish to thank to Futuremark Corporation which provided us license of PCMark8 to use in FunkyKit reviews.
ATTO Disk Benchmark
As we can see on the specification and features page, maximum declared speed of HyperX FURY SSD is 500MB/s read and write. I won’t hide that I was surprised to see maximum transfers of 556MB/s read and 536MB/s write. That’s simply great. Our review sample is standard retail SSD so specification and performance shouldn’t change.
CrystalDiskMark 3
CrystalDiskMark is also showing results above declared. It’s not as big difference as we could see in ATTO but 30MB/s higher read bandwidth is for sure nice. General performance in this test is also good. Random read could be however higher but it’s nothing really to complain about.
AS SSD Benchmark
AS SSD is showing slightly worse results. I wish to see here higher random read bandwidth as nearly 18MB/s in 4K test is already low. Except that all other numbers look good. Again sequential read is 30MB/s higher than we were expecting.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities
Similar sequential and random bandwidth results to previous two benchmarks we can also see in Anvil’s tests. We can also see IOPS that are not really as we could expect looking at HyperX FURY specification. Random IOPS in this test are about 3k lower while write is 10k higher. That’s quite a big difference and probably test file size used in this benchmark can’t use full read performance of HyperX FURY SSD.
PCMark8 – Storage Suite
PCMark8 tests are based on Microsoft and Adobe applications and popular games like World of Warcraft and Battlefield 3. Good enough to check daily performance of the SSD.
Looking at the previous tests I wasn’t expecting so good results in PCMark8. Results achieved in this benchmark are not much worse than the highest SSD series available on the market.
General performance of the Kingston HyperX FURY 240GB is maybe not the highest that we’ve seen but is good enough for every applications used everyday. For sure should be good option for gamers who will see visible improvement over standard HDD while it still won’t be as pricy as highest SSD series.
Kingston’s highest SSD series is still HyperX 3K but we are expecting new and faster SSD soon that will replace well known model already awarded many times. We also had a chance to test and award HyperX 3K SSD in Special Na’Vi Edition.
