HyperX Fury RGB SSD overview: give ’em the previous razzle dazzle

Give ’em the previous razzle dazzle, and so they’ll make you a star! Or so HyperX hopes with its newest Fury SSD. The HyperX Fury RGB SSD comes outfitted with, you guessed it, RGB lighting throughout its 2.5-inch chassis. Finally providing up a brand new degree of storage drive customisation you by no means thought potential… or obligatory.

The worth of your common SATA SSD has been declining as of late. Hurrah! But if you happen to fancy spending a bit extra in your SSD than is required within the title of A E S T H E T I C, then the HyperX Fury RGB may be simply the ticket. The good SSD for players that want a bit gentle of their life.

In the take a look at bench we’ve acquired the 480GB mannequin, sufficient area for an OS and a modicum of game installs by at present’s triple-A requirements. Both 240GB and 960GB fashions can be found if you happen to favor a bit extra elbow room in your important SSD squeeze, nevertheless, and all three fashions are made up with father or mother firm Kingston’s 3D TLC NAND and paired with certainly one of Marvell’s 88SS1074 controllers.

But this isn’t about interior magnificence. No, the HyperX Fury RGB SATA drive is a completely useless and ostentatious creature. Controlled through a single USB cable straight to the drive, the HyperX Fury RGB options sunken lighting bars on both facet of its entrance facade and an illuminated emblem. These are each daisy chain-able and play good with most main motherboard manufacturers’ RGB lighting suites to sync up with the remainder of your rig.

Though the RGB ought to improve efficiency tenfold, the Fury RGB solely manages to maintain apace with trendy SATA drives from the likes of Samsung and Crucial, and hardly ever ever surpasses them. Most SATA drives nowadays are held again by the interface itself somewhat than any theoretical NAND limitations within the die, however that doesn’t cease Samsung’s 860 Evo from popping out on prime in real-world and artificial benchmarks.

Maybe that third-party controller isn’t as optimised because the rival’s chip could be. Nevertheless, the outcomes present the Fury RGB falling noticeably behind the Samsung in a 30GB file switch – a mixture of compressible and incompressible knowledge. The identical could be mentioned for 4k AS SSD benchmarks, throughout which the Fury RGB noticeably lags each the Samsung drive and Crucial’s MX500.

For probably the most half, nevertheless, the HyperX drive lands proper within the combine alongside the inexpensive Crucial drive. Only in AS SSD does the HyperX efficiently surpass the Samsung 860 Evo, managing to take care of equilibrium throughout each learn and write efficiency. Whereas the Samsung and Crucial drives each gradual within the latter.

But, whereas that’s all properly and good within the grand scheme of issues, each the Samsung and Crucial drives are cheaper at $83 (£75) and $68 (£63), respectively. There’s a premium related to RGB lighting that the HyperX drive simply can’t kick, and meaning you might be paying not an insignificant sum extra for lesser efficiency.

But I don’t maintain the Fury RGB to a fault for its worth. Lighting is a premium characteristic, and if you happen to don’t need your drive to gentle up just like the 4th of July there’s a plethora of drives in the marketplace – many others from HyperX even – that can satiate your restrained necessities.

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Though If you do worth aesthetic above all else – even mates, household, and monetary accountability – the HyperX is the de facto SSD of selection. And with efficiency nonetheless within the upper-bands of the SATA normal, you received’t should sacrifice a terrific deal for the razzle dazzle.