Product Details
- Size: 120 GB
- Color: Black
- Brand: Kingston
- Model: SH103S3B/120G
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 2.38" h x
9.00" w x
7.00" l,
1.00 pounds
- Memory: 122880MB
- Hard Disk: 120GB
Features
- Kit includes 2.5-Inch SSD, 2.5-Inch USB Enclosure, 3.5-Inch bracket and mounting screws, SATA data cable, hard drive cloning software and installation guide, multi-bit screwdriver
- 555MB/sec read and 510MB/sec write speeds
- Faster boot times and application loads than hard drives
- No moving mechanical parts gives it longer life and ability to handle rougher conditions
- Backed by Kingston's three year warranty and free technical support
- 2.5-Inch SSD Drive with 9.5mm height
- Support for SATA Rev 3.0
Product Description
Budget-minded gamers and enthusiasts will benefit from the lower price of Kingston's new HyperX 3K SSD. This solid-state drive combines premium 3000 program-erase cycle synchronous NAND with the second-generation SandForce controller. Its lower price means more users can experience ultra-responsive gaming, multitasking and multimedia computing power. 3K loads games and applications faster, increases frames per second (FPS) for an improved gaming experience and allows for quick transfers and edits of large media files. HyperX 3K provides high-speed SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s) performance and blazing fast random and sequential read/write speeds. SandForce DuraClass technology provides the latest data integrity protection for ultimate endurance over the entire life of the drive. HyperX 3K SSD comes in a sleek, black and aluminum case design, accentuating the look of any power user's system. For added peace of mind, HyperX 3K SSD is backed by a three-year warranty and legendary Kingston reliability.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
By Jeffhdz
This SSD kit is excellent. It comes with everything you need to upgrade a computer to SSD. In addition to the extremely fast 2.5" SSD drive, there is a USB HDD enclosure to help with the data migration, a mounting bracket in case you need to fit a 3.5" drive bay, the USB and SATA cables, the software, and even a nice screw driver with multiple tips for installation.I initially installed this drive on an older laptop running Windows XP. The installation was very easy. First I took out the old laptop hard disk and put it into the supplied USB enclosure. Next I installed the new SSD into the laptop computer. For the third step, I connected the USB enclosure with the old drive in it to the computer's USB port. After that, I turn on the computer and put the supplied software CD into the laptop's DVD-ROM drive. The computer booted up from the CD and launched the disk cloning program. Following the on-screen instructions the entire old hard disk was cloned to the new SSD. When the disk cloning was done, I took out the CD and disconnected the USB enclosure with the old HDD. The computer was rebooted and everything worked fine off the new SSD. For most users running Windows XP, vista or 7, this would be the easy steps to upgrade and the smooth experience to expect.Over the weekend I decided that it would be a better use of this drive if I put it into another laptop computer that runs Ubuntu Linux. (Samsung RC512-A01 similar to Samsung RC512-S01 Core i7-2630M 2GHz 6GB 750GB DVD±RW NVIDIA Optimus 15.3" LED Notebook Windows 7 Home Premium w/Webcam, 4G WiMAX & 6-Cell). I am working on some project that requires compiling large software packages. I guessed that the faster SSD drive might speed up the compiler so off I went to move the SSD to this Linux computer. I took out the SSD from the Windows XP computer and put back the original HDD. For the Linux computer, I decided to do a fresh installation as I doubt the Acronis disk cloning software would support my version of Linux. After installing the SSD into the Samsung laptop computer, I ran Ubuntu Linux installation from a Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS i386 CD (I need this specific version although it is an older release). There was no surprise. The SSD was properly identified as KINGSTON SH103S3120G device /dev/sda. The SSD was partitioned and the Linux system was installed. The supplied USB HDD enclosure became handy again. I put the old HDD into the enclosure and connected it to the computer. It was a breeze to copy my data and project files over to the newly installed SSD. The SSD was indeed faster - compiling time was reduced from about 10 minutes to slightly over 8 minutes. System monitor indicated that all 8 cores of the Intel Core i7 CPU were pushed to 100% utilization when the compiler was running. This is simply amazing!My experience using this SSD on both Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux is very positive. For anyone looking for a bit more performance out of his/her system, Windows or Linux, this is the drive to upgrade.
28 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
By JustinCruse
I bought the Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 240GB a while ago to replace the HDD in my late 2009 iMac 21.5". The drive isn't only SATA III compatible, but compatible with SATA II as well. Even with SATA II connection, it is still lightning fast. I have no complaints about the SSD itself, but if you are going to install it into an iMac, it will not fit in the HDD bay the same as a 3.5" HHD will. The SSD comes with a mounting bracket that is suppose to span the same dimensions that the 3.5" HDD does, but in reality, it won't in an iMac. If you are looking at putting the SSD into a Mac that is newer than 2009, take note of the S.M.A.R.T. temperature sensor that is built into the old HDD. This SSD comes with S.M.A.R.T. technology built in but it doesn't communicate with the Mac very well. The Mac will tell the temperature of the drive but will not adjust the fans accordingly. This is not due to the Kingston SSD, but apple itself. Apple only wants you to install their SSD Drives to get the complete compatibility. To correct for the fans kicking on to full blast 24/7, install SSD Fan Control and set the fan RPMs to the minimum speed for the HDD bay only. Also, Kingston ships the drive with trim support so that the life of the drive is at its maximum through monitored wear. Apple computers will not recognize the trim support for the Kingston SSD so if you are installing it in a Mac, download SSD Trim Enabler and that should fix that problem. If you are installing it into an Apple computer, you are going to need to reformat it to be compatible to the OS.For the Windows Users, I think that windows will allow you to pop the SSD drive in and load the OS on it with no reformatting of the drive itself. I suggest making sure that the SSD has trim enabled in your OS as well to prolong the life of the drive. This is a very fast SSD and I have had not one problem with the drive itself. The Kit comes with everything you will ever need for installing it in your computer and even comes with software to transfer everything from the old hard drive to the new SSD. If you are looking at putting it in an Apple computer, I will provide the links below to help out the installation process. If you have any questions iFixit.com should be able to help with the installation process. Overall, I would have to say that this is probably the best SSD I have owned.SSD Fan Control: [...]Trim Enabler: [...]
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
By Jeffrey Pittman
I got this on a whim without doing any real research because I'd heard SSDs would make a system scream. I hoped I could replace the original hard drive in my Acer Aspire One 722 series netbook to speed it up. In retrospect that's kind of stupid - just hoping isn't much of a plan - but this worked so well and installed so easily that it's almost as if it were made specifically for my netbook. Your mileage may vary but I am pretty impressed. Disclaimer: this is my first SSD so I may be more easily impressed than folks with more experience.Also, I am replacing an existing 2.5" drive in a netbook with the Kingston 2.5" drive, so this describes my experience doing that. You might be adding the Kingston as a second or third drive in a desktop, or setting up the Kingston as an external storage device, or something else. These are things I did not attempt, so my experience may not be applicable to your situation.My Acer had a 220GB hard drive with about 60GB used and Win 7 64 Home Premium installed. I got the 120GB version of the Kingston drive. The instructions say that the used space on your old drive should be no more than 85% of the space on the SSD (in the event you are replacing your hard drive with the SSD, which I was), so the 120GB SSD capacity was more than adequate for me. If you're looking at replacing a drive, be sure you have at least 15% headroom in the new drive vs. what was used on the drive you want to replace.Before I did anything I ran CCleaner to clean off extraneous junk, did a defrag (didn't need to), got a full image backup of the original hard drive and made a fresh recovery DVD. (You need an optical drive, preferably a DVD R/W in this day and age, internal or external, to make a recovery DVD and to run the software included with the SSD.) Then I found several YouTube videos showing how to swap hard drives in an Aspire One 722 and reviewed a couple to get familiar with the process. The thing I *didn't* do was make any kind of performance benchmarks before swapping the hard drive with the SSD, so any conclusions I draw later on are subjective. Apologies.I found instructions on the software CD as a PDF. If you're replacing the drive in your note/netbook, don't start following the instructions as soon as they appear; the first section is for a desktop. Keep going until you get to the section for notebook installation. These are the steps I followed in a nutshell:* Swap the notebook's original hard drive with the new SSD and reassemble the notebook (YouTube made this a snap for me)* Put the original hard drive from the notebook into the included external drive enclosure (in my case I had to carefully peel off a layer of foam padding that was attached to the drive so it would fit in the external enclosure)* Clone the original hard drive (now an external drive) to the Kingston SSD (now inside your notebook) using the bootable CD included in the package. You need to be able to boot your notebook from the CD so you need to configure your BIOS to use the optical drive as a boot device.* Follow the well-done (I thought) instructions in the PDF and the prompts from the software as it clones your original drive to the new SSD. Be forewarned that the time remaining estimator underestimates a little, or did in my situation.* I got several write errors at the very end of the drive cloning process. Not knowing what else to do after hitting "retry" a few times, I chose "ignore" and eventually "ignore all" and the cloning process completed almost immediately thereafter and reported that it was successful. That's not comforting at all, but if there were serious any errors or omissions they haven't surfaced yet (so far, 3 days in using the netbook pretty constantly with the SSD). I did have one spontaneous reboot while I was away from the netbook, and Windows reported that it had recovered from an unexpected shutdown. I hope that's not a sign of bad things to come and will update this review if that continues.* At the end of the process you need to remove your "new" external hard drive (the drive that originally came with your notebook), remove the software CD and (in my case) reconfig your BIOS so that your new SSD is either at the top of the boot list or 2nd in line behind your external optical drive if you prefer (normally I don't have an optical drive connected so it doesn't matter). This last bit isn't discussed in the documentation but it makes sense - you have a new bootable hard drive and you want all those leftovers out of the picture.My netbook is ready to use noticeably faster than before (again, I can't quantify that due to poor planning). It became pretty clear what was taking time during bootup, and not all of it is waiting on the disk. The computer itself takes just as long to start reading the SSD as it took to start reading the original hard drive (this is the period during which you have the chance to press a key to enter setup). The "Starting Windows..." screen with the pretty Windows appearing as shiny lights and then morphing into the Windows logo takes just about as long - maybe a little less time - with the SSD as with the original drive. I assume that Windows is sniffing around the hardware and its own state from the last shutdown and that this is mostly a memory-intensive period. All that said, the login screen does seem to appear significantly more quickly than with the original disk drive.Once you login things get a lot crisper in a hurry. The desktop appears almost immediately and programs that don't need a network connection will open about as fast as you can click them. These are things like local copies of Word, Excel, etc. with local documents or spreadsheets. I keep a lot of stuff on network-attached storage so files like that aren't going to load until Windows finds the network and connects to it. Likewise with web pages - when I click my Firefox icon the browser loads in a flash now, but it still takes a second or two to load my home page. Makes sense - my home page is out there in the world somewhere, not on my local drive.Once Windows is loaded and the network connections are all settled, I see dramatically increased performance pretty much everywhere. The least impacted area is browsing websites because I'm waiting on anything and everything but the SSD...it can't make remote servers run faster or goose the performance I get from my ISP. Anything I'm doing locally - even locally over my home network, which is no speed demon - is whoa-that's-nice faster. Stuff that involves all local disk I/O is tablet-fast - in effect, everything is in memory, even the stuff on "disk."The review from JustinCruse mentioning TRIM was very helpful - I'd never heard of it so I did some web searching and got a little education on it. Any SSD user should look into it.Another reviewer mentioned receiving mounting hardware to make this 2.5" SSD fit into a 3.5" bay. I thought mine didn't include that, but it did. What I assumed was pretty blue trim in a piece of padding was actually the 3.5" mounting bracket and extra screws, so dig around. It's there.I'm giving this a 4 instead of a 5 and I'm not sure that's fair - this was just impossibly easy to install and makes my formerly slow-by-comparison Acer netbook run so much faster than my main computer (a full-sized HP laptop) that I'm thinking about a bigger one for the HP. I guess I wanted my head to snap back from power up onward and that's probably not reasonable. The performance boost is like having a new computer, but as an upgrade the cost of this is a pretty large percentage of the original price of my Acer netbook (I do love AMZN but you should really shop around as prices for this vary a lot...a whole lot!).If everything (or almost everything) you do on a computer is inside your browser, you're probably not a candidate for this or any other SSD until the prices come down even more, because most of what you're waiting for isn't stuff on your hard drive. Yes, you will boot way faster and your browser will load faster but after that, you're at the mercy of your ISP and the servers you're hitting and an SSD isn't going to do much for you there.If you want much faster boot times and much faster local performance along with noticeable improvements with apps that are using files in your local network, an SSD should be on your list to consider and this one in particular since it was so amazingly easy to install.
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