 Whistle Thump Keyboard sounds Ding Welcome to my unboxing of the Kingston HyperX SSD. This is their first HyperX branded SSD, which to me indicates that Kingston is fairly confident in the performance Hup Gah Excuse me. Heh Yeah, I guess we'll just keep rolling then. Of this particular unit. So this is featuring a San Force controller, it runs controller, it runs on C to 3, 6 gigabit per second, and what they are claiming is that you can improve system performance by 60%. And let's find out what that asked, based on PCMark system performance suite. Well I will go ahead and say that Kingston is entirely wrong to make that statement. Completely, 100% wrong. You wanna know why? Because system performance will increase dramatically more than 60% by going from a hard drive to an SSD. That is a very conservative statement. Now, in some scenarios you'll see 0%, this is true. However, in other scenarios, like for example when you are in the middle of an intense task and you all of a sudden, you like, you wanna do something else? It can perform double, triple, quadruple even 10 times faster than a system that's still relying on an ancient mechanical hard drive. So this particular drive is rated for reads of up to 525 megabytes per second and writes of up to 418 megabytes per second. It comes with a 3 year warranty, 24-7 tech support, and it also includes a bunch of accessories that other SSD manufacturers do not include. Which I will show you. I'm gonna figure out how to get the box open. There we go. Alright. It is also by far the slickest looking SSD that I have ever seen. It is fully Kingston HyperX looking. It's got a big metal X on the top of it with a blue background with the Kingston guy and the Kingston logo. On the back it has a SATA power connector as well as a SATA 3 6 gigabit per second data connector and some jumpers that you probably won't need to use. It has some mounting holes on this side. Some mounting holes on this side and some mounting holes on the bottom including a warranty void if removed sticker. So don't remove that or your warranty will be void. I have no warranty on this particular drive though anyway. It's very heavy. It's quite heavy. Due to the plastic housing would be my guess. And the metal housing is very thick housing. Very robust feeling. Something to bear in mind about those mounting holes that are on the drive is that those are standard. This will fit in your notebook. It will fit in your desktop with this adapter right here. So here is a Kingston HyperX branded 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch SSD adapter. So you go ahead. You put your drive on there which will look nice and sharp. Look at that. See Kingston. Kingston considers things. This is smart because when you put the drive on you can still see the HyperX logo on the adapter. Check that out. See? Little things. We've also got included screws. Included other more different screws. So these ones are for mounting the SSD to the adapter. These are for mounting the adapter to your case. We have a solid state drive installation guide. Includes hard drive cloning software. Very nice. Including that hard drive cloning software is a big value add in my opinion. Because especially for notebook users it allows you to easily move your OS from your hard drive to your SSD. They also include a screwdriver. Check that out. So you got a flat head and two different Phillips heads. And it's in the convenient form factor of a pen like object. You can put the bits back in. You can close back up. And then you can put it in your front pocket. And it can sit there like that. Proud Kingston HyperX user. Alright. Next we have an external drive enclosure. Now why would Kingston include this? Very good question and I will provide you with the answer. The reason Kingston would include this HyperX branded external hard drive enclosure is so that you have a way when you unlock it. And put your old desktop drive, your hard drive in there. You will have a way to A. Transfer the data using their cloning software to your new SSD. And B. You will have a use for your old hard drive now. So you can just go ahead and put that cover back on. Put the cover back on. Lock it in place. Plug in the USB cable which they have conveniently included. And now you have an external hard drive to go along with your SSD equipped notebook. They've also included a SATA cable which if you are installing it in a desktop you will need. So it comes with everything you need to install it in a notebook or a desktop or even in your shirt pocket. Which once again I'm trying to demo and I don't have one so it is not working. Thank you for checking out this particular unboxing on Linus Tech Tips. Don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings, reviews and other computer videos.