CHF52.90 CHF55.10/1TB
Kingston A400
960 GB, 2.5"
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112 reviews
Well, this SSD is not exactly a rocket, but what can you say at this price?
Well, the SSD is quite good for everyday use, but as soon as a larger file has to be moved or the SSD has to work actively for a longer period of time, the data rate falls back to 20 MB/s read and write.
Pro
- cheap....cheap....cheap
- A lot of memory for the money
Contra
- Throttling of the SSD speed at over 50 degrees to 20 MB Read/ 20 MB Write)
You get what you pay for
The SSD is cheap, but write performance is bad (even for sequential writes).
This makes the SSD good for backup purposes, where one would write large files to them infrequently but read from them regularly. But I wouldn't recommend them for anything else.
Regarding write speed:
For a movie-sized file (2-3 GB), the performance is initially good (~400MB/s, for the first 200-300 MB). It then drops to ~100MB/s for the next 200-300MB. And then drops to ~30MB/s for the rest of the file, which is slower than a traditional HDD. Writing a 10GB file takes ~10 minutes.
Pro
- Cheap
Contra
- Slow
Price performance winner.
Very satisfied I got it at a special offer price for it is top
SSD works
SSD works as expected, easy installation and connection. But simply plugging it in is not enough, because the SSD has no label/partitions. After physically connecting the SSD, you first have to use the Disk Manager (under Windows) to create a partition and drive letter. Only then does the computer 'see' the SSD.
1 terabyte, cheap
Pro
- Favourable
- Much faster than the HD before
Price/performance TOP
You can't go wrong with Kingston SSDs. Brings a breath of fresh air to any old laptop/PC with a hard drive.
Pro
- Favourable
- Reliable
- Fast
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