Those enthusiasts looking for a high-end PCIe SSD will be glad to know that Kingston's M.2 HyperX Predator, with sequential transfer speeds of up to 1400/1000 MB/s should be available in February.


While Kingston did not provide any other performance numbers, other than the ones seen earlier which suggest that we will have sequential transfer performance of up to 1400MB/s for read and up to 1000MB/s for write, the company did reveal more details regarding the controller and NAND. According to Kingston, the new HyperX Predator will be based on Marvell's 88SS9293 controller paired up with Toshiba's A19 MLC NAND.

While this four-lane Gen2 interface controller is not as fast as the new Marvell's Gen3 controller and uses AHCI instead of NVM Express protocol, it will be bootable on standard desktop motherboards at least. The HyperX Predator SSD is based on an M.2 form factor which could have been a limiting factor if Kingston did not ship it with a half-height expansion card that plugs into a PCIe slot.

According to Kingston, the new HyperX Predator M.2 SSD will be available in February in 240 and 480GB capacities, while 960GB version is expected later in Q1. Unfortunately, Kingston did not reveal any details regarding the price but we will surely keep an eye out for this one.



Source: Kingston.com via Techreport.com.