HyperX Savage 240GB SSD Review and RAID Performance Testing

MSI Z170A Gaming M7 – Z170 Chipset
Intel Core i5 6600K (3.5Ghz) Quad Core 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache
Thermaltake Water 2.0 Performer
1x nVidia GTX 980Ti
2x GSKill TridentZ PC4-27700 8GB DDR4 (16-18-18-38)
HP dvd1260i Multiformat 24x Writer
Thermaltake Toughpower Grand 1050 Watt PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit SP1

Storage Tested
HyperX Savage SATA6 240GB SSD - SHSS37A/240G

Reference Storage
HyperX Predator M.2 240GB PCIe SSD – SHPM2280P2H
HyperX 3k SSD SATA6 240GB SSD – SH103S3240G (as the third drive)

I will be testing not only single drive performance but also comparing that to the performance of two drives in both RAID 0 (stripe) and RAID 1 (mirror).  Then just for fun I added a third HyperX 3k drive in RAID 0 just because I could.  For a performance reference I’ll be using the HyperX Predator which is a very fast PCI Express based SSD and currently the fastest HyperX drive you can buy until they release their NVMe version.

For the benchmarks I choose to give a mix of synthetic and real world tests that are both repeatable and should provide a good basis for comparison.  The problem is knowing exactly what people are looking for when choosing a storage solution.  While some sites might go into the timing ticks of the individual NAND chips or latency of the controller I find that to be a little too technical.  (says the reviewer who benchmarks CPUs down to the thousands of a second)

Bottom line, the format may change let me know what you would like to see.