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The SK Hynix Gold S31 SSD definitely offers improved speeds over HDD and some other SATA III SSD drives. While it doesn't match NVMe speeds, it's still a decent and affordable upgrade for gamers and content creators on a budget or who are limited by the...
We find the SK Hynix Gold S31 is a solid SSD which offers good performance. This is even after hammering the drive for several days with pre-conditioning and repeated benchmarks, the numbers remained steady. The Gold S31 is positioned well for...
It is extremely easy to dismiss the traditional 2.5" form factor SATA SSDs with the recent price drops of M.2 SATA and NVMe drives to the point that price parity exists between the form factors. When given the chance I would go NVMe every time, but...
SK hynix Gold S31 1TB SSD$1208.6Design8.0/10Installation9.0/10Capacity8.0/10Performance9.0/10Value9.0/10ProsGreat speedLow costConsOnly available in up to 1TBOfficial Sitehardware SK Hynix Gold S31 1TB SSDm sk hynix ssd...
With real-world performance matching not only advertised rates, but also theoretical maximums, there is no doubt that the S31 delivers on its promises. The warranty period is second to none, with SK Hynix delivering a 5 year promise versus the 3 year or...
We just wanted to let our community know what we have been working on behind the scenes and this is just a quick look at a couple of the new things that we are doing. The new SSD test system will be heavily used in the months ahead and we look forward...
The SK Hynix Gold S31 SSDs are capable mainstream SATA drives. They are consistently a bit slower than most of the recent competition in this market segment, but the differences are seldom big enough to matter (and performance sensitive users should be...
While you may never have heard of SK Hynix (nee Hyundai), it's one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers on the planet. The company has been developing NAND and controller technology since the get-go, and while it's been the SSD OEM for numerous...
After spending some time with the SK Hynix Gold S31 1TB SSD we have a pretty good feel for how this drive performs. We were able to reach the drives rated sequential Read/Write speeds of 560 MB/s read and 525 MB/s write on CrystalDiskMark. Random 4K...
The SK hynix Gold S31 was sent to me for review about a month ago, but we're just getting to it at the moment because I had some amazing unrelated hardware issues we'll talk about another time.The SK hynix Gold S31 that I'm reviewing is a 1TB (1000...
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