The Kingston HyperX Fury RGB SSD Review: Bright Idea, Dimmed Performance
by Billy Tallis on September 24, 2018 8:35 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench - Light
Our Light storage test has relatively more sequential accesses and lower queue depths than The Destroyer or the Heavy test, and it's by far the shortest test overall. It's based largely on applications that aren't highly dependent on storage performance, so this is a test more of application launch times and file load times. This test can be seen as the sum of all the little delays in daily usage, but with the idle times trimmed to 25ms it takes less than half an hour to run. Details of the Light test can be found here. As with the ATSB Heavy test, this test is run with the drive both freshly erased and empty, and after filling the drive with sequential writes.
When the Light test is run on an empty drive, the HyperX Fury RGB provides an average data rate that is only slightly below normal for mainstream SATA SSDs. When the test is run on a full drive the Fury RGB suffers more than a typical mainstream drive but does not fall all the way down to the performance level of DRAMless SSDs.
The average and 99th percentile latencies from the Fury RGB on the Light test are reasonable for a SATA drive and don't indicate any serious issues on gentle workloads.
The full-drive test run's average read latency is a bit higher than normal but otherwise the Fury RGB scores about as well as any other SATA SSD.
Read latency again stands out when looking at 99th percentiles, and the Fury RGB actually scores a bit worse than even the DRAMless HP S700. It does not appear that the Fury RGB is capable of suspending write operations in order to quickly handle new read requests.
The energy usage of just the SSD side of the drive is similar to other SATA SSDs, and the LEDs continue to use far more power than the storage operations.
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Amandtec - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
Samsung sneakily dropped prices on the 860 EVO's to make them the cheapest SSD's with a dram cache on the market (per pcpartpicker, at least).MrSpadge - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
The MX500 is still cheaper in Germany, but not by a lot.Death666Angel - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
Especially the M.2 SATA versions. Not contest there, really.Impulses - Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - link
SanDisk Ultra is also cheaper, at least at 2TB & SATA... I've got three Samsung drives in my desktop right now (256GB SM951 & 2x 1TB 850 EVOs) but the next one will likely be a 2TB Crucial/WD based on pricing alone.DanNeely - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
So, if I understand this correctly, the only forms of chemotherapy for the RGB cancer in this drive are to buy a mobo that is also suffering from RGB cancer so I can plug into it and use it's software to disable the lights, or to use a sata power cable that has been modified to disconnect the 12V rail?melgross - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
No, you just don’t buy gamer oriented goods. Pretty simple.mjz_5 - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
Find me a high end AMD motherboard without LEDs?29a - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
Just don't turn them on. I'd rather have it and not need it than not have it and want it.eddman - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
That statement only applies to useful tools, like a wrench, or a hammer, or a knife, etc. These LEDs have ZERO functional use, except for producing light pollution and being an eyesore.melgross - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
Well, they all have LEDs, the question is whether they’re diagnostic LEDs, or there for decoration. I don’t follow every mono out there (or most of them, thuthfully) so I don’t know what they all have.