Kingston's Hyper X SSD combines the Sand Force controller technology with premium NAND flash, reducing load times while increasing performance & endurance. It provides high-speed SATA Rev 3.0 transfer speeds for larger bandwidth, which power users require for advanced gaming, multitasking & multimedia computing power. Kingston's Hyper X SSD lets users load games & applications faster, increase frames per second (FPS) & quickly transfer & edit large media files. It's cool, silent & requires less power & no additional cooling requirements. When configuring the Hyper X SSD partition, the user can choose between having the maximum available capacity for data storage or giving up a little space to increase performance & endurance. This additional space is called over provisioning on an SSD. The amount of performance & endurance increase depends upon the type of data being stored on the Hyper X SSD. The more data that is MPEG, JPG, ZIP or ARC file types, the greater the benefit for this increased over provisioning. Hyper X SSD uses an advanced wear leveling technology that distributes writes evenly across all the flash blocks in the SSD to maximize overall drive endurance. in addition, wear leveling ensures that the individual flash memory blocks are consumed at a very balanced rate, not to exceed a 2-percent difference between the most often written blocks & least written. This enables the Hyper X SSD to provide the longest possible life for the user while maintaining optimal performance.