Kingston SH100S3 User Manual

UPGRADE

SSD

MEMORY

SHOCK RESISTANT

HYPERX

FAST

PERFORMANCE

STORE

KINGSTON

COOL

SSD

SOLID-STATE DRIVE

SILENT

STORAGE

H Y P E R X S S D

SOLID-STATE DRIVE

Faster speeds for serious users.

Kingston’s HyperX® SSD combines the latest SandForce® controller
technology with premium NAND Flash, reducing load times while increasing
performance and endurance. It provides high-speed SATA Rev 3.0 (6Gb/s)
transfer speeds to provide the larger bandwidth required by power users for
advanced gaming, multitasking and multimedia computing power.

Kingston’s HyperX SSD lets users load games and applications faster, increase
frames per second (FPS) and quickly transfer and edit large media  les. It's
cool, silent and requires less power with no additional cooling requirements.

NOTEBOOK

HYPERX

HyperX SSD

When con guring the HyperX SSD partition, users can choose between
having the maximum available capacity for data storage, or give up a little
space to increase performance and endurance. This additional space is called
over-provisioning
increase depends upon the type of data being stored on the HyperX SSD.
The more data available in MPEG, JPG, ZIP and ARC  le types, the greater the
bene t from this increased over-provisioning.

HyperX SSD uses an advanced wear-levelling technology that distributes
writes evenly across all the Flash blocks in the SSD to maximise overall drive
endurance. Additionally, this ensures that the individual Flash memory blocks
are consumed at a very balanced rate, not to exceed a 2% di erence between
the most often written blocks and least written. This enables the HyperX SSD
to provide the longest possible life for the user while maintaining optimal
performance.

HyperX SSD is covered by a three-year warranty and backed by 24/7 live
technical support and legendary Kingston® reliability.

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on an SSD. The amount of performance and endurance

> SandForce Driven
> SATA Rev. 3 (6Gb/s)

Also available as a HyperX Upgrade Kit:

• Acronis Migration Software

• HyperX 3.5" desktop mounting plate

• HyperX USB external drive bay

• HyperX multi-head screwdriver

• HyperX coloured SATA Rev 3.0 (6Gb/s) cable

Applications

• Decreased load times of high-resolution PC
games

• Increased frame rates per second for a
better gaming experience

• HD video rendering, encoding and editing

• Adobe applications
(Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom)

• Pro tools and other professional digital
audio applications

• Faster transfers of large media files

• Multitasking

• AutoCAD

• Movie downloads, transfers and syncs

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Features/specs on reverse >>

HYPERX

COOL

UPGRADE

STORE

FLASH

FAST

HyperX SSD

FEATURES/SPECIFICATIONS

> Form factor 2.5"

> Controller SandForce® SF-2281

> Components Intel® 25nm Compute Quality MLC NAND

(5k P/E Cycles)

> Interface SATA Rev 3.0 (6Gb/s), SATA Rev 2.0 (3Gb/s)

> Capacities

> Sequential reads 6Gb/s

> Sequential writes 6Gb/s 510MB/s for all capacities

> Sustained Random 4K R/W

120GB – 20,000/60,000 IOPS
240GB – 40,000/60,000 IOPS

> Max. random 4K R/W

120GB – 95,000/70,000 IOPS
240GB – 95,000/60,000 IOPS

> PCMARK® Vantage HDD Suite score

120GB – 81,196
240GB – 81,394

> Supports SMART, TRIM, and Garbage Collection

> Power consumption

120GB: 0.455 W (TYP) idle / 1.6 W (TYP) read / 2.0 W (TYP) write
240GB: 0.455 W (TYP) idle / 1.5 W (TYP) read / 2.05 W (TYP) write

> Dimensions 69.85mm x 100mm x 9.5mm

> Weight 81g

> Operating temperatures 0 °C ~ 70 °C

> Storage temperatures -40 °C ~ 85 °C

> Shock resistance 1500G

> Vibration operating 2.17G

> Vibration non-operating 20G

> MTBF 1,000,000 hrs

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120GB, 240GB

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3

555MB/s for all capacities

SOLID-STATE DRIVE

MEMORY

SSD

COMPATIBILITY TABLE

Operating System File Transfer

Windows® 7 Yes

Windows Vista® (SP1, SP2)

Windows XP
(SP1, SP2, SP3)

Windows 2000 (SP4) Yes

Mac OS (v. 10.3.x +) Yes

Linux (v. 2.6.x +) Yes

KINGSTON PART NUMBERS

SH100S3/120G (stand-alone drive)

SH100S3/240G (stand-alone drive)

SH100S3B/120G (HyperX Upgrade Kit)

SH100S3B/240G (HyperX Upgrade Kit)

Yes

Yes

MEMORY

Test system: Asus P8P67 motherboard, Intel Core i7 2600k 3.4GHz CPU,
4GB system memory, NVIDIA GTX 460 video card

1 Note: The over-prov isioning can only be m odi ed at the use r’s own risk and will requ ire third party so ftware to par tition the drive. Kin gston recommends that o nly

experie nced and knowled geable users attemp t to customise the over-prov isioning area. Kings ton will not provide sup port or any additi onal tools to execute this
feature.

2 Please note: Some of t he listed capacit y on a Flash storage dev ice is used for formatt ing and other funct ions and is thus not availab le for data storage. A s such, the

actual av ailable capacit y for data storage is les s than what is listed on the p roducts. For mor e information, go to Kin gston’s Flash memory G uide at kingston.com /

 ash_memor y_guide.
3 Speed may var y due to host hardware, sof tware and usag e.
4 Based on “out-of- box performan ce” with IOMeter08
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This SSD is design ed for use in desktop a nd notebook computer w orkloads, and is no t intended for Serve r environments.

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