Another entrant into the budget SSD ring. SK hynix is better known as the provider of memory chips often found on graphics cards and system memory. The company is also spearheading efforts into bringing high-bandwidth graphics memory for new GPUs - AMD's Fury X card is using hynix's know-how.

Completing the memory jigsaw, the South Korean giant, with annual revenues exceeding $13bn, is now making a concerted play into the retail solid-state drive market. We took at a look at the SH910A model last year which impressed with a combination of solid performance and attractive street price. Now, a second drive is introduced to the fold: enter the Canvas SC300.