Kingston Replaces HyperX 3K SSD With Phison-Powered Savage SSDs

Kingston has taken the wraps off its new flagship HyperX Savage brand of SSDs powered by the Phison S 10 controller. The S10, (or PS3110), is a typical quad-core eight-channel NAND controller which gives it enough oomph to easily saturate the standard SATA 6Gb/s interface. Phison has become a staple name in the SSD space alongside others such as Silicon Motion or Marvell.

Interestingly, the Savage brand will be directly replacing the venerable but aged SandForce powered HyperX 3K SSD family, marking one important step closer to the end of second generation SandForce drives. In addition to the stronger sustained performance Savage SSDs should deliver, the S10 controller will maintain the same level of performance regardless if the data is compressible or not.

As is standard with Kingston SSDs, the HyperX Savage will be available as a stand-alone SSD or as a “upgrade ready” bundle that includes everything shown above, namely “a 2.5″ USB 3.0 enclosure, 3.5″ bracket and mounting screws, SATA data cable, hard drive cloning software, multi-bit screwdriver and a 7mm to 9.5mm adapter.”