HyperX Savage 2.5" 960GB SATA III eMLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SHSS37A/960G

Pros: This is one super fast SSD, fastest I've ever owned, the build quality is great, the casing is thick and heavy and while it was operating to fill the entire drive and to transfer back files, the drive wasn't even warm.

Speeds as fallow:

On a Z97 chipest:

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 561.762 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 542.858 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 377.167 MB/s [ 92081.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 371.292 MB/s [ 90647.5 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 392.830 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 469.340 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 26.714 MB/s [ 6522.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 116.725 MB/s [ 28497.3 IOPS]

This is where the tricky part begins:

Hooked to an ASMedia SATA 106x Controller the speeds were that great due to "DRIVER" issues, nevertheless very fast:

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 400.833 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 377.299 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 240.217 MB/s [ 58646.7 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 151.153 MB/s [ 36902.6 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 373.435 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 353.411 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 28.167 MB/s [ 6876.7 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 66.330 MB/s [ 16193.8 IOPS]

On a Z97 USB 3.0 port with a USB 3.0 adapter speeds:

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 163.945 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 228.479 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 19.300 MB/s [ 4711.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 27.555 MB/s [ 6727.3 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 220.848 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 248.324 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 17.072 MB/s [ 4168.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 26.948 MB/s [ 6579.1 IOPS]

On an HM65 chispet USB 3.0 (Win7 Sandybridge i3):

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 108.434 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 113.362 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 7.890 MB/s [ 1926.3 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 101.297 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 110.738 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 11.167 MB/s [ 2726.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 20.125 MB/s [ 4913.3 IOPS]


On an HM65 chispet, fresh install of Win7 (and no updates):

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 497.818 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 500.948 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 337.024 MB/s [ 82281.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 231.177 MB/s [ 56439.7 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 342.305 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 462.710 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 18.692 MB/s [ 4563.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 32.408 MB/s [ 7912.1 IOPS]

Win7 HM65 i3 2440M Fully Updated:

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 549.248 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 497.788 MB/s

Cons: NONE

Overall Review: This drive is very fast, it tops SATA 6.
Although is really fast when it's connected directly to a SATA port via Intel's controller, it's a bit slow on an ASMedia SATA 106x controller, but that's not as slow as when the controller had old drives, speeds dropped to 45MBs write but with the new 3.0.2.0 ASMedia drivers the controller improved damatically and it helped the speeds overall as well.

In USB 3.0 mode using an enclosure, it performed fairly but I'll admit that the enclosure was very inexpensive and perhaps I need an enclosure that would have a high end USB 3.0 controller chip,

Overall it performed really well and it's faster than my previous Mushkin Reactor 256GB and 512GB, along with the 120GB OCZ in my laptop.

While the units is rated for 240GB, in the bios is recognized as a 228936MB drive.
Not formatted reads: 223.57GB
When ready to be formatted in the process it says you have 228934MB available to format.
Fully formatted reads: 223GB.

For the speeds you get with this drive and the price you pay, you cannot go wrong with this drive, the HYPER X SAVAGE, its' right on top with the competition and Kingston makes high quality products, this drive is built to last.

EDIT:
I've been using this SSD on my new Toshiba laptop now for about two months on a daily basis and staying on for about 4-6 hours average, so far I have not encountered any errors or lock ups or BSOD, the laptop runs smooth, no lost of data or corruptions either.
I also notice that the SSD does not run hot at all, I don't feel any eat coming from my laptop, it's always pretty much cool to the touch, as I expected this drive is very reliable, reason why I pretty much some of my USB storage devices are Kingston and the memory upgrade in this laptop was also a Kingston kit, but definitely the SSD is a must for a laptop nowadays. I'm going to buy a 2nd laptop since that I use this one for work and upgrade my new one with a 480GB Savage X and a 2GB memory kit (for a total of 6GB).
I, am so glad that SSD are this size, because a mechanical drive for a laptop is so slow.

Pros: it was DOA so I can't comment on Pros.

Cons: DOA

Overall Review: Unfortunately this will be the shortest and easiest review I've ever written while being an "Eggexpert" reviewer. The drive I received was DOA. I tried it in a laptop, my desktop and my cousins laptop. The motherboard in my laptop is a Clevo P150HM, the motherboard in my desktop is an EVGA 790i Ultra, and my cousins PC is AMD. None of the devices I installed it in recognized the drive in the BIOS which lead me to my conclusion. The HDD was DOA