Toshiba HK3R2 960 GB Review 9

Toshiba HK3R2 960 GB Review

(9 Comments) »

Value and Conclusion

  • The Toshiba HK3R2 960 GB retails for around $600.
  • Incredible low-thread MySQL performance
  • Power-loss protection
  • High read performance
  • 5 year warranty
  • 7 mm thin—ultrabook compatible
  • Significantly higher price than similarly performing consumer SSDs
  • Slightly lower write performance than other drives
  • Plain branding
Toshiba's HK3R2 SSD is targeted at entry-level enterprise customers, which is reflected in the product's packaging and branding, which are both pretty much non-existent. Toshiba is one of the few manufacturers to produce both NAND chips and flash controllers, which puts them in a leading market position, both in cost and technology, letting them fine-tune all aspects of the product around their requirements.
In our real-life testing we see the HK3R2 perform very well with read-heavy workloads, which is the specialty of the SSD. More write-intensive applications see the drive in average spots, right where it competes with more value-oriented drives. What really sets this drive apart, though, is the amazing MySQL Enterprise performance, especially at low-thread counts, where the drive delivers more than three times the throughput of other SSDs. This data point suggests that the HK3R2 will do very well as a drive in a database server. For other scenarios, I lean toward recommending plain cheap consumer drives that deliver similar performance at much lower cost per Gigabyte.
Recommended
Discuss(9 Comments)
View as single page
Feb 6th, 2025 22:38 EST change timezone

New Forum Posts

Popular Reviews

Controversial News Posts