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welcome back to our unboxed hope you're all doing well unfortunately Tim is still sick but the good news is he tells me he's getting better and he should be back to work very soon in fact we are still planning to do that live stream build tomorrow he's not a hundred percent today but well he's not gonna be hundred percent tomorrow either he reckons but he'll be good enough to do the live stream builds we're gonna be doing that on the channel should be a lot of fun so keep an eye on your notifications for that line because it won't be at the regular time anyway because Tim is out of action we didn't have a video ready for today's slot I've got to benchmark videos planned about the testings not quite done yet so yeah no video already not a big deal though we can just skip today or at least that's what I thought we were going to do while reading over your comments on yesterday's a Seuss build video I noticed a huge amount of people talking about how GB SSDs and that's because I included well partly because I included this RGB SSD in the build video and one of the first comments on that video really really confused the hell out of me basically we went along the lines of something like the system's probably going to be unstable because I made the mistake of using an RGB SSD I was really really confused by this comment I thought the person just had to be trolling me it was some sort of RGB meme or something like that anyway shortly after I just got more and more comments about the our GB SSD that I should check it to make sure that it wasn't running superhot and there was some problems with it nor this my where is this coming from then finally someone said were you having the same problems that J saw J from Jay's two cents and then I thought ok I've got to go find this video from J went over to his channel couldn't find it turns out it's the latest video he's done surprise surprise just didn't have anything to do with SSDs or RGB in the title I guess it was meant to be a surprise or something so the first thing I noticed was that J wasn't even using the same SSD he had the Kingston HyperX fury RGB SSD yeah it's an RGB SSD but that's about all they have in common they use different controllers different NAND flash memory and complete different RGB lighting the issue Jay had with his drive was entirely down to the LED lighting with it disabled the drive worked perfectly fine now the fury X uses a staggering 75 RGB modules all of which are mounted on the same PCB as the storage related components and we know this because an antique took the thing apart and showed us what it looks like inside basically all the lights are on one side of the PCB while the controller and memory are on the other this means the vast majority of the heat generated by these lights is absorbed into the PCB and well that helps cook everything else attached to it an antic concluded their review by saying this the LED lighting on the Kingston HyperX fury RGB SSD drives up the price of this SATA SSD to nvme levels and draws enough power to make the drive more prone to overheating than almost any m2 nvme SSD out there and we tested with only one of the three colour channels illuminated Kingston's designed for this drive uses probably twice as many LEDs as necessary to provide the backlit logo and narrow highlights though a lot of the light is blocked as it passes through the translucent plastic diffuser sheet and metal grading something I found of interest is the fact that an antique didn't note the horrendous stability issues that Jay saw but then they did only test for the third of the lighting enabled so probably had enough of the LEDs disabled to avoid any major problems that said Tom's Hardware did tests with all the LEDs enabled and they also didn't notice the horrendous stability issues that Jay saw though they did note poor performance after moderate write and copy workloads which does suggest a throttling issue not super uncommon for an SSD but more so when discussing nvme SSDs rather than the slower two and a half inch models housed in aluminium enclosures having now read a few reviews from leading tech sites I feel Jay probably got a dud a defective model of what is still a rather poor product but I'm not convinced it's as terrible as what Jay found so while I don't think his findings are the norm it's still a flawed product that costs too much for what it is and it has way way too many LEDs if I were Jay I'd digress no but seriously I would have pulled the thing apart to see where the LEDs were placed try and work out why they were getting so hot and just mess around with a bit check out the internals and yet just see what's going on I would have been really interesting but at least an antic did tear it down and they did give us a look at the internals I've watched Jays video twice now and I'm still not showing a few things like did he reach out to Kingston to see what they had to say about the issue so is it a common issue does it impact all drives was his just effective which is what I suspect was the case here again we know it runs hotter than it should but I haven't seen a single other review complaining about Windows but Windows not working out of curiosity I've decided to buy one of these things we don't have a contact at Kingston so I've just decided to buy one the 480 gigabyte models it's like $150 I'll see somewhere around there so not terribly expensive so yeah just ordered one so we can see what the deal is I'm really mostly just interested to see if it actually works with all the RGB Zhan J noted that it was particularly bad when they were all set to white so yeah I want to see if all the drives when set to white just fail or have some sort of weird issue so yeah it'd be pretty mind-blowing if they all had that issue that J saw surely surely there's no way Kingston could have released a product that's really that broken surely what I can tell you is that me looking at this thing won't change the fact that Kingston's HyperX fury RGB SSD is flawed and you should really avoid it so regardless of my findings J is right about that however if you want an r gb SSD then i can highly recommend the team group model it doesn't run hot it doesn't suffer any stability issues and as far as I can tell the RGB lighting on this one is completely harmless the T force Delta R GB SSD packs just eight RGB LEDs and yet despite that in my opinion it lights up better than the Kingston model the LEDs are also on a completely separate PCB which doesn't come in contact with the main PCB housing the controller DRAM cache and NAND flash using an IR gun I measured a peak surface temperature of just 32 degrees in a 21 degree room after a 20-minute stress test that was also barely warm to hold though I'm not sure if I've become desensitized to hot surfaces after all that zeb 390 vrm testing that i did but this SSD certainly didn't feel warm to touch anyway I'll just stick to using these scientific instruments that I have at my disposal and trust them over my touch test pricing is also super competitive despite the flashy RGB lighting team groups charging just sixty-eight dollars us for the 500 gigabyte model and for some pricing context crucial is selling their MX 500 500 gigabyte for seventy dollars right now while Samsung's 860 Evo 500 gigabyte costs $80 us as for performance it's not class leading by any means but it's certainly not slow either basically there's no chance you'll notice the difference between any of the models I just mentioned anyway I just wanted to make this quick video to address the crazy amount of comments I saw bashing the team group Delta R GB SSD because another completely unrelated RGB SSD is hot garbage see I thought was a bit unfair that this SSE was getting completely bashed because of another SSD anyway we've addressed that now this one is perfectly fine and if you want to flash your lookin SSD then yeah I do recommend it but yeah RGB is on SSD is kind of a weird one that but as we found in the bill yes that does kind of look cool if you can put it on display and if you're into your RGB lighting and whatnot anyway that's going to do it for this one again we will have our live stream bill tomorrow so keep an eye out for that hopefully Tim well hopefully he'll be doing better than the Kingston RGB SSD you won't be throttling that hard hopefully he's over his illness and yeah hopefully you guys didn't mind this sort of filler video I thought it was interesting to cover normally this is the kind of thing I would do as a patreon behind-the-scenes video discuss these kinds of issues with the patreon embers but because this was something that came from a main channel video and was discussed by a lot of people that probably aren't patreon members I thought I would just make this video because we had we had a free slot and this video really didn't take me much time or effort to make so yeah there's that so hopefully it was still enjoyable anyway I'll be back with some big in-depth benchmark videos which I know you guys love on the channel very soon I have some pretty cool benchmarks lined up so yeah you don't want to miss those anyway like the video if you liked it subscribe for more content and if you appreciate the work we do our box then consider supporting us on patreon and yeah thanks for watching I'm your host Steve see next time you