Kingston 480GB A400 SATA 3 2.5 Internal SSD SA400S37/480G - HDD Replacement for Increase Performance

IOPS were decent and speeds were good. extremely light. gave an old laptop a new life with windows 10 HUGE difference.

Excelente

Holds the bits well.

Ive bought a Kingston SSD just so I will be able to use it for my older 2009 Mac Mini, but when I went into the Mac OS installer, it didnt recognize it at all. I then put the SSD into my Dell Inspiron 3670 with Windows 10 installed and still nothing, no notification, or no drive showing in File Explore; it wont even show in the BIOS or in Device Manager. My heart plummeted when I realized that I have a out of a box defective drive. It even said when I ordered the product that it would only have wear in the package, not a totally non working SSD. I dont know if the drive has warranty on it, but that will be great to have my $35 back or swap to have a good working state drive. I thought these drives were good honestly; Ive seen lots of people making positive feedback towards this SSD for basic gaming builds, so I thought it was a bang of a buck for how much it costs.

I just bought a laptop and it only had a 256gb m2 ssd. After installing Visual Studio and Android Studio, I had about 150gb left. 150gb is not much for coding projects with large libraries so I looked at upgrading the hard drive.

Good enough, just not all that fast.

Be warned if you are considering buying this A400 to replace HDD - may not be as simple as it seems, with this model, Kingston fails to include or provide any support/access to any cloning software so Im dinging them for this. Ive wasted over 40hrs trying to get this to work, used the Macrium product to replace an HDD by setting up this new A400 SSD which now will not boot. Running Windows 8.1 on an ASUS Q500 laptop. Both SDD and HDD are GPT, UEFI boot, AHCI, about 235GB of space used, SDD capacity 500GB, HDD capacity 700GB. I first tried to create Macrium clone but kept getting ambiguous Macrium message error 0 after it would run for hour or so even after I did the suggested hours long chkdsk /f. Next I instead used Macrium to successfully create image of my ASUS HDD (all partitions - that took about 3hr) and then restore the Macrium image of my ASUS HDD (all partitions) to the new SSD (Kingston A400) connected via USB cable - took about 2hr to restore. Upon completion, was able to use file explorer and visually spot check that all files including system, hidden seem to have been moved to new SSD. Shut down pc, removed HDD, installed SSD, rebooted and was sent straight into BIOS which showed the SSD under SATA connections but did not show it under boot selections. Based on info found on other forums, turned off drive security in BIOS, rebooted, same result back into BIOS. Used the Macrium Bootable USB Flash Drive Id made prior to start, rebooted to that flash drive, ran the Fix Windows Boot Problems Utility which seemed to run successfully. Removed USB flash and rebooted. Still went straight to BIOS. At least now the new drive showed in BIOS under bootable devices/boot selections. Rebooted to Macrium flash drive and from command line for the SSD boot drive c:, ran bootrec /fixmbr and still same result. Also tried /fixboot and /rebuildbcd but SSD drive still will not boot, laptop just goes to BIOS. Used windows to make a repair/bootable USB and tried to repair the SSD, still would not boot. Went back to old drive, used windows to make system image, put SSD back in and booted with repair USB and tried to restore image by connecting via USB the old HDD containing windows system image but windows would not find the system image even though I could go to a command prompt and see it. Now trying to download Windows 8.1 ISO to try installing that on the SSD but little faith at this point. Unsure how I will get past this and get my SSD to boot, may return it.

Easy to install in my Toshiba laptop, and increased my drive capacity. Cloned my old drive to this one. it does have quicker response and is quiet. Laptop battery will last longer now.

Very worth it to own, I own both the 120GB and 240GB for my server and at those prices they cant be beat! Ive had no problems with them and their very fast!

Espero q sea original