Kingston HyperX 3K (240GB) SSD Review
by Anand Lal Shimpi on April 10, 2012 3:00 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench 2011 - Light Workload
Our new light workload actually has more write operations than read operations. The split is as follows: 372,630 reads and 459,709 writes. The relatively close read/write ratio does better mimic a typical light workload (although even lighter workloads would be far more read centric).
The I/O breakdown is similar to the heavy workload at small IOs, however you'll notice that there are far fewer large IO transfers:
| AnandTech Storage Bench 2011 - Light Workload IO Breakdown | ||||
| IO Size | % of Total | |||
| 4KB | 27% | |||
| 16KB | 8% | |||
| 32KB | 6% | |||
| 64KB | 5% | |||
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vandalizmo - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - link
As far as I remember in US dot "." is decimal separator, not thousands separator, which makesTotal Estimated Lifespan 8.219 years 13.698 years 27.397 years 82.191 years
look pretty small. Or is it actually ~8, ~13, ~27, ~82 years?
Ryan Smith - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - link
8 years, 13 years, etc is correct. A 1 write cycle a day, you'll go through 3000 cycles in a little over 8 years.Conficio - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - link
You state there are software tools that come with the drive. What OS platforms do they support? Windows? Mac OS X? Linux? BDS?I'm tired of hardware that is only supported on Windows. And I grow tired of tests that do not even bother to mention where the software is actually available. I don't expect you to test all versions, although that would be much appreciated, but please give us the basic information.
On that page, I'd love to hear a comparison of the tool support for SSD drives on Linux as well as on Mac OS X. I think that would be worth an extra article with unique content. Fellow readers, am I alone in this desire?
Senti - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - link
No you aren't alone. It's very frustrating that the ONLY platform supported for my OCZ Revodrive 3 is Win7. At least it also work in 2008R2. Tried 2003 - got blue screen.Coup27 - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - link
I did read on the comments of the Plextor review that they are going to start paying more article attention to the toolboxes which are offered with the drives.Suprising to see that the next article after that comment also skips over the toolbox program with no further information or screenshots.
Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - link
I can only talk on behalf of my reviews, remember that.Coup27 - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - link
"i agree wholeheartedly - Samsung's toolbox is definitely the new gold standard here. I've been pushing folks behind the scenes to ramp up the quality of their options as well. I want to start paying more attention to it as it's a huge part of the user experience.Take care,
Anand"
Wasn't aimed at you Kristian, this was the comment I remember seeing. Would have been a perfect opportunity to see another toolbox beyond Intels and Samsungs.
MrSpadge - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - link
Stating the manufacturers information on OS support is something the reviewer can and probably should do. However, with Linux and other exotic OSes this information may be short lived and as a interested customer one would probably have to dig for current information anyway.And support will always depend on the specific distribution.. then there will work-arounds / hacks to make it work elsewhere, which won't work for everyone. I hope you're not hoping to get this information from reviews ;)
Otherwise I pledge it should be on a separate page in the appendix called "linux support issues", which the rest of us can ignore.
Jaraxal - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - link
I also do not see links for or entries in the drop down box for the last part of the review (conclusion, etc).MrSpadge - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - link
Take a look at the 1st page, there's nothing more to say.