The Predator is a quite innovative product with support for some of the latest standards including PCIe 4X and M.2 storage standard. Enthusiasts who have M.2 support on their motherboards will be able to use this standard and those with older boards without M.2 will be able to use PCIe 4x.

The drive comes in 120GB to 960GB capacities and will start shipping in February in 120GB, 240GB and 480GB sizes, while the 960GB variant is expected in Q2 2015. The Predator drive uses Marvell’s X4-lane PCIe SSD Controller 88SS9293 that will enable speeds over 1500MB/s read and around 1000MB/s write. These were the numbers we saw at Kingston's CES booth, but you can expect at least 1400MB/s read and 950MB/s write, which is still significantly faster than the average 2.5-inch SSD SATA 6Gbps drive.

This is faster than most drives on the market and an innovative design that enables both PCIe 4X based optional half-height, half-length (HHHL) card and M.2 connector is definitely a refreshing change in this segment.

There is also a Savage line of refreshed HyperX drives called Savage series that will also come to market in the second quarter of 2015. It is based on the Phison S10 controller and we saw it running in Intel's NUC with Intel Core i5 Processor and 2.5-Inch Drive Support (NUC5i5RYH). The Savage line will replace HyperX 3K drives.