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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TitanX - Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - link
i have an asus x470 prime..it has a turn off lights thing in the bios.mr_tawan - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
I'm looking for a new SSD for my laptop. This might be a good fit ...Oh wait, my laptop has no glass panel.
Lolimaster - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
Blame your laptop manufacturer for not making the mobo pcb and you keyboard clear :Ddcole001 - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
All Flash and I recommend to Pass!! Just go with the Samsung 860 Series SSD Drive and you will have the best SSD Drive you can get for Desktops.jabbadap - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
Or crucial mx500, at least it's cheaper than samsung where I live.Lolimaster - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
On amazon the difference is about $10-20. EVO's got twice the endurance.But MX500 got hardware powerloss protection (physical capacitors).
TitanX - Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - link
man, unless you are doing enterprise workloads or 4k video edit, that whole endurance thing on 500gb+ SSDs is a moot point now. i had a 5 year old Mushkin Chronos deluxe 240GB SSD as a primary drive and only wrote 37 TB in that time. i have a 1TB crucial M2 now and its endurance is multiples of that..i'll replace with with the next big thing or whatever long before it konks out on endurance.casperes1996 - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
I really don't get the RGB thing... It really isn't even pleasant to look at, and in a lot of cases you lock it away in a non-see-through case anyway. I'd much rather just have a sleek and simple design like the old Cheese Grater Mac Pro than pay extra for flashing lights on everything. I'm willing to pay extra for a great, simple design. But not for lights that ruin the aesthetic. Red lights would disturb my peripheral vision. Keyboard backlighting I can get behind since that serves a good purpose and can look good in the dark when the purpose is there. RGB on GPUs, SSDs, RAM etc. I don't understand.seamonkey79 - Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - link
I'm not huge on RGB, but it's kind of funny that you would mention buying a Mac of any type, which is going to cost more than anything (I've seen) that uses RGB in the Wintel world (for the same hardware).rpmurray - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
I'm waiting for them to include a radio receiver so that the lights can pulse to the beat of your favorite FM station.