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I was one of the fools who thought this was worth buying. It had mostly good reviews and various test data seems to indicate it does what it says on the box. However, these trumped up results are only under certain circumstances. I had the opportunity to compare this to a similar spec but much more capable SSD, the Samsung 5, which can be had for less than half the price of this. When transferring a high volume of varying files of near the drive's capacity on a regular formatting system (I used Mac HFS) with no encryption, if does perform okay. I got an average speed of 99mb/s on a 480gb transfer, which was only marginally behind the Samsung T5 SSD's 114mb/s average for the same set of files. This was in copying from an external HDD across. The bottleneck may be the HDD or the Machine but surely not the super speed drives (?) However, when writing data encrypted, from an SSD to another SSD, I got speeds of 295mb/s with two Samsung T5s. The HyperX on the other-hand performed terribly, taking 7 hours, 15 minuets to copy the same data. The Samsung T5 taking a mere 16 minuets to write the 280gb. Both the HyperX and the Samsungs were formatted to the same encryption, so this test would only measure drive vs drive speed. Really, I can't think of any reason one would buy one of these over the far superior Samsung T5. They are less than half the price and can be obtained through many legitimate suppliers. Size wise, apart from the cable, there isn't much difference. The Samsung is wider but not as long or thick. It also doesn't project 70 odd millimetres out of the machine. Maybe gaming direct from this drive would work, providing it wasn't encrypted but I could barely get a 1080p video to play and looking though folders with a large number of files isn't quick as previews need to load; issues I have not had with the SSDs or even medium spec HDDs. For the price, I would certainly not recommend buying one of these. The most disappointing Kingston product I have bought.Read full review
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Excellent way to store data, more practical than a hard drive.
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