Kingston SSDNow A400 480GB Internal Solid State Drive (SA400S37/480GIN)

So far so good

Good Product 👍

I wanted to change my HDD with new one, as my old HDD (WD Black) was gradually failing, searched lot of sites & products, wanted to get another HDD, but saw the reviews were horrible (about failure of products within few months), so decided to buy SSD (first time, as I trust HDD over SSD because SSD have limited read/write cycles); among them Kingston SSDNow A400 480GB was beating the Price in SSD 500GB segment with descent TBW. Same was available on other sites for ~5.7k but love the Amazon delivery so ordered it from Amazon for ~6.1K (So 4 Stars!). Delivery was super fast. When received the product it was in sealed Tetra Pack (Genuine Product), Assembled in Taiwan (Great Relief! You Know What I mean...).Pros:Very Light Weight (feels like a biscuit, wanted to bite!) than my HDD (WD Black).Thin than my HDD (WD Black).Easy to install in my laptop.Can be partitioned in GPT format (for UEFI BIOS).Faster Booting of Windows compare to my HDD (WD Black), total boot time on HDD was ~3Min now its ~40 Seconds.Faster Opening of Applications.For regular operation gets descent copying speed from 2MB-90MB/Sec.SOLVED FREQUENT HANGING PROBLEM PROBLEM OF MY LAPPY (ThinkPad E460).Cons:Poor speed while installing windows 10 Pro (1809) compare to my HDD (WD Black), took ~28 minutes (6th Gen i7 2.6Ghz / 16GB RAM), on HDD it was ~15 minutes.Poor copying speed from SSD to USB, ~2-3MB/Sec., On my HDD (WD Black) it was ~2-5MB/Sec.Poor copying speed from Phone to SSD, takes longer time to copy content of phone (S9 128GB) to SSD compare to my HDD (WD Black).THE POOR COPYING SPEED MAY BE BECAUSE OF PARTITIONING OF SSD (Mentioned in most of the forums) OR BECAUSE IT HAVE DUAL CHANNEL CONTROLLER.But when I compare the price paid for the product, I don't regret the buy.

I bought it few days back to upgrade my old dell laptop. It works perfectly fine. No issue. Thank you

Good and fits my requirement

This ssd is extremely fast. I replaced it with my laptop 5400rpm hdd. Sony vaio vpceh35en. Now my laptop is as fast as new ThinkPad or Apple laptops, though my processor is 2nd gen i3 with 2 cores, 2.3ghz. After putting this ssd my laptop boot time reduced and now it boots within a few seconds, white previously it used to take more than 2 minutes. Any large softwares like Photoshop cs6, premier pro cs6, Illustrator cs6, Eclipse, Android Studio, Adobe pdf, Chrome browser, Firefox, Opera, Word,Excel, PowerPoint, etc fully within max 3-5sec, which previously used to take almost a minute to launch specially after boot. Write speed has also increase but I have not measured yet so cannot give any opinion. Even my battery backup increased so much. Previously while booting the laptop battery reduces to 7%-8% but now it reduces only 1% -2%. It's because ssd has no physical moving parts while hdd has small motor which makes the disc rotate. In ssd all the data are always ready to use but in hdd it has to search the data throughout the disc by rotating it which results slowness. The ssd is very light in weight compared to the hdd. But my product came to my with a torned packed. Shame on you appario retail. Another point is that I am using it on Windows 7, if you use this on Windows 10 then you can more faster boot time and faster app launch time because Windows 10 is a very optimized OS compare to Windows 7 and MacOs. If you have a good processor and high speed ram with Windows 10 then I can assure you that using this ssd you laptop or PC will run many times faster than Macbook pro. Though MacBook pro has m.2 nvme ssd but Windows 10 is more optimized.

Having used this SSD for over five years, it's clear that it was a solid investment. The drive's performance has remained consistent, with fast boot times, quick file transfers, and reliable multitasking capabilities. Even after years of use, there are no signs of significant slowdown, which is impressive.One of the standout features of this SSD is its durability. Despite daily use, there have been no issues with data integrity or unexpected failures. The drive has maintained its health, showing minimal wear according to monitoring tools. This long-term reliability makes it a great choice for anyone looking to upgrade their storage.On the downside, the storage capacity may now feel a bit limited compared to more modern SSDs, which offer larger capacities at lower prices. Additionally, newer SSD models may offer faster speeds, but this drive still holds up well for most tasks.Overall, this SSD has proven to be a reliable and durable option over the years, offering great performance for its time and showing minimal degradation even after extensive use.

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I bought this in 2022 and it works flawlessly; I have three Kingston SSD's in my PC and they are perfect for my computing needs. Read & Write speeds are perfect; I recommend them.

Good

Working fine, my laptop being so fast

El artículo vino en perfecto estado de embalaje y protegido la instalación fue genial pues debido a mi portátil pes fue fácil de hacer el disco es bueno y del que estoy haciendo referencia esta muy pero que muy bien tanto en capacidad que es el que compre la marca pues ya aviendo utilizado otro disco de la misma marca y me fue perfecto durante toda la vida útil que me duro el propio portátil yo recomiendo tanto el disco de su capacidad como la marca 100x100.Jose Carlos.