With both their enthusiast and entry level models recently refreshed it comes as little surprise to see Kingston round out their new lean and mean lineup with a more mainstream orientated option. That option is new new HyerX Savage.

After the controllers have cooled, I think it's perfectly safe to say that Kingston really did their homework with the HyperX Savage SSD, earning it an "A" in terms of performance and quality.

Enthusiast level performance; Gorgeous red enthusiast design; 240GB and 480GB relatively affordable

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Now that we have seen the inside and outside of the Savage and put it through our benchmark suite lets take a step back and see what we have when it is all said and done. As far as the performance is concerned in most situations the Savage pulled ahead of the other drives using the same Phison...

SSDs was once considered a luxury and unnecessary a few years back due to its high price that not many could afford even for the smaller capacity 60GB or 64GB variant. As competition arises, price of SSD has become much more affordable and the once dreamed 120GB / 128GB SSD would probably cost you...

Comes with 3 year warranty; Decent build quality; Decent performance; Good aesthetic aspects; Awesome bundled upgrade kit

A little costly

Kingston's HyperX Savage SSD is the drive for you if want what very well could be the best SATA3-based consumer drive available. Impressive Performance and a great bundle.

Impressive performance, Great bundle, Price vs; performance ratio is top, Phison PS3110-S10 controller and Toshiba A19nm NAND

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We were not really expecting this level of performance or quality from the Kingston HyperX Savage. Not that we expected a lacklustre performance or maybe even mildly exciting, we just never expected to be so wow'd.

The SATA-based SSD market is so saturated with good drives that it's nearly impossible for a mediocre offering to earn a recommendation. When the product's price is as high as Kingston's HyperX Savage (240GB for $150), it had better be impeccable or risk falling below Samsung's 850 Pro (256GB for...

A return to the premium accessory package; Looks good with HyperX Savage RAM

Price; Real World Performance (what really matters)

Kingston is one of the known names in the Indian market thanks to its memory products such as RAM sticks, flash storage drives, wireless storage drives and so on. So much so, that even street vendors claim to be selling ‘Kingston' branded pen drives, which are obviously fake.

With the arrival of the HyperX Savage SSD line it's quite obvious that Kingston is trying to phase out the older HyperX 3k model and although it's not really that old I think it's the right move.

Quality (Toshiba A19 Toggle NAND Flash; Very Good Performance; Feature Set; 1.000.000 Hours MTBF; 3 Year Warranty; Bundle; Color Combination (For Some; Price (For Some

Constant Performance (For Some

I wanted to jump to an SSD as my 2TB HDD was taking forever to boot as it was packed with Files, Music, Videos and Games so wanted one for a Boot Drive for OS and Software, went through lots of reviews and then chose this Hyper X Savage which does not disappoint, I have got around 1.2 TB used on my...