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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Dragonstongue - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
what a stupid mofo drive design...have to use a 4 pin 12v power instead of just allowing the drive to use the power that it is given etc etc..Bravo Kingston, you get a reward for one of the dumbest moves to join the RGB disco light show craze and fail miserably at it.
olafgarten - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
It's so stupid when they put LEDs on everything.My Strix GTX980 has a white Led that can't be disabled and stays on even when the computer is shut down, I had to cover it up with tape as it was disturbing my sleep!
PeachNCream - Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - link
Strix-branded products are stupid anyway. They are part of that immature gamer-in-the-basement segment of the PC market. That doesn't justify the stupid LEDs, of course. Does your PSU have a physical switch it? You could use that or turn off power at the surge suppressor to shut the LED lights off without bothering with tape. Flipping the physical switch is a good idea anyway to reduce vampire draw from active devices to marginally reduce your electrical power bill while also cutting back on the risk of losing hardware to spikes caused by thunderstorms.MadAd - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
woohoo, all i need now is some LED cables, an LED optical drive and some LED thermal paste and im all set!!MrSpadge - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
> LED optical driveNope, you really want that light source to be a laser!
mobutu - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
yuckranran - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
So, this is like those people that buy the little Civic's or Corolla's and then pump tons of money into crazy wheels, air foils, noisy exhaust, and speaker systems that together probably cost more than the car is worth........... totally useless...Lolimaster - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
Over 22cents per GB when better SSD's from Crucial and Samsung are jumping around 16cents per GB :Dzodiacfml - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
Thanks for the useful title, I don't have to read the review. I clicked on your ads thoughqlum - Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - link
I feel for the poor guy who is inevitably going to put this in his laptop.