Kingston A400 SSD Internal Solid State Drive 2.5" SATA Rev 3.0, 960GB - SA400S37/960G

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PayPal Credit and PayPal Pay in 3 are trading names of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH. Rugged - A400 is shock- and vibration-resistant for rugged reliability when used in notebooks and other mobile computing devices. Say goodbye to frustratingly slow boot times and application launches – the A400 SSD accelerates these processes, making your computer more responsive and efficient. Additionally, the Kingston A400 SSD boasts durability and reliability, thanks to its solid-state construction. Please note that this SSD is sold in multiple variants with different NAND flash or controller, which could affect performance, the "Notes" section at the end of this page has more info.

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Finance is only available to permanent UK residents aged 18+, subject to status, terms and conditions apply. This SmartCacheFlush technology allows incoming data to only have a “pit stop” in the cache and then move to the NAND flash at once. You can also replace your hard drive or a smaller SSD with a drive big enough to hold all your files. This drive was also a victim of many component swapping, since the flash has changed many times over time, and also it's controller, that in some revisions came with Silicon Motion SM2258XT or even 59XT.

Many of the SMART attributes are unknown and vendor-specific, with 0xE7 appearing to be the media wear-out indicator while 0xAA seems to indicate pre-failure state and may be an indication of accumulated bad blocks at a guess. While I could not assess reliability, the performance of this drive is virtually uncharacteristic of most SSDs. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. The compression benchmark shows a slight advantage on reads for compressible data – there may be some logic inside the controller that detects very sparse patterns to speed up performance.The apparent speed may come from a pSLC cache that lives in some of this overprovisioning space, covering up a relatively slow arrangement of planar TLC flash (from what I know from other sources about this particular range). I’ve previously owned a number of SSDs which were considered by some to be “very unreliable” but not encountered any issues (e. Note well though , this is a BIG drive - about 14 hrs to low-level format in NTFS via USB 2 , not really a problem but an overnight job! With a spacious 960GB capacity, this SSD offers ample room for your operating system, applications, games, and multimedia files. With a generous 960GB capacity, the A400 SSD provides ample storage for your files, applications, and games.