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480GB Kingston A400 TLC 3D NAND 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive

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Kingston has select Kingston A400 TLC 3D NAND 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drives on sale from $19.99. Shipping is free on orders of $35+.

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  • 240GB (SA400S37/240G) $19.99
  • 480GB (SA400S37/480G) $29.99
  • 960GB (SA400S37/960G) $62.99
Amazon has select Kingston A400 TLC 3D NAND 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drives on sale from $19.99. Shipping is free with Prime or orders $25+.

Thanks to Community Member arnott for finding this deal.
  • 240GB (SA400S37/240G) $19.99
  • 480GB (SA400S37/480G) $29.99
  • 960GB (SA400S37/960G) $62.99
About this product:
  • Interface: SATA III (6Gb/s)
  • Form factor: 2.5" (7mm)
  • Sequential Read: 500 MB/s
  • Sequential Write: 450 MB/s (960GB & 480GB models) / 350 MB/s (240GB model)
  • MTBF: 1 Million Hours
  • 3-year limited warranty

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    • These solid state drives has an impressive 4.8 out of 5 star rating based on over 167,000 customer reviews on Amazon.
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Kingston 480GB A400 SATA 3 2.5" Internal SSD SA400S37/480G [amazon.com] - $30

Kingston 960GB A400 SATA3 2.5" Internal SSD SA400S37/960G - $63

Kingston 240GB A400 SATA 3 2.5" Internal SSD SA400S37/240G - $20
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Model: Kingston Technology A400 480GB SATA III M.2 Internal SSD

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Waiting for the $30 Black Friday SSDs with DRAM
Revived probably dozen of old PCs and laptops using these Kingston SSDs, never had any problem
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10-09-2022 at 09:11 AM.
10-09-2022 at 09:11 AM.
Lowest price on ccc, good reviews. Picked up a couple of the 480gb
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10-09-2022 at 10:02 AM.
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Waiting for the $30 Black Friday SSDs with DRAM
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10-09-2022 at 07:18 PM.
10-09-2022 at 07:18 PM.
Quote from J.treehorn :
Waiting for the $30 Black Friday SSDs with DRAM
I will wait for Black Friday, too.
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10-09-2022 at 08:49 PM.
10-09-2022 at 08:49 PM.
I don't know anything about this drive but I will never buy a Kingston or PNY product after they were caught component switching.

There's no shortage of quality SSD deals to be had.
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10-09-2022 at 10:51 PM.
10-09-2022 at 10:51 PM.
Quote from MaKlounkee :
I don't know anything about this drive but I will never buy a Kingston or PNY product after they were caught component switching.

There's no shortage of quality SSD deals to be had.
What component switching? You are posting misinformation.

If you are basing it on change TBW of PNY CS3030, there was no component switching and there was no performance difference.

Kingston is one of the best brands around. PNY nvme drives are good value drives with excellent performance.

The only component switching I would worry about is when the performance gets downgraded. The only ones that have done that as far as I know is Adata.

Samsung and Crucial have switched controllers with no performance difference for example.
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10-09-2022 at 11:04 PM.
10-09-2022 at 11:04 PM.
Revived probably dozen of old PCs and laptops using these Kingston SSDs, never had any problem
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10-10-2022 at 09:56 AM.
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Quote from WingsOfF :
What component switching?
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=ki...tching&l=1
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10-10-2022 at 01:15 PM.
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10-10-2022 at 01:21 PM.
10-10-2022 at 01:21 PM.
So your source is a 9 year old article that is a report on a user blog post that has now disappeared? And second hand reports of people complaining? If that was the standard for avoiding companies, you wouldn't be able to buy from anyone. Not Samsung, not Crucial, no5 WD. Nor would such blanket bans would be very practical across their product lines.

Like I said, almost every manufacturer has changed components - NAND or Controllers as they have gone through rapid changes.

https://www.extremetech.com/compu...-slow-ssds

What you want to avoid are proven performance changes like the Adata or the SMR drive introduction.

What companies aren't on your blacklist? Smilie
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10-10-2022 at 02:05 PM.
10-10-2022 at 02:05 PM.
I bought the 480 GB and got $25 off as a "courtesy credit". Anyone know what that credit is? Thanks
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10-10-2022 at 02:09 PM.
10-10-2022 at 02:09 PM.
Cool, thanks.

I have an old PC that I breathed some life into with a Samsung EVO SSD 860 EVO 1TB [amazon.com] (purchased in Nov 2019 for $110. It's currently $140.)

That PC has sat unused for over a year, and I want to use that EVO 1TB in my primary computer for extra storage (slotting between my NVME main drive and HDD bulk storage), but I don't want to completely kill the old one. This $30 drive will be just fine in my old PC, and allow me to use the bigger/better drive in my new PC.
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10-10-2022 at 02:27 PM.

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10-10-2022 at 02:27 PM.
Quote from WingsOfF :
So your source is a 9 year old article that is a report on a user blog post that has now disappeared? And second hand reports of people complaining? If that was the standard for avoiding companies, you wouldn't be able to buy from anyone. Not Samsung, not Crucial, no5 WD. Nor would such blanket bans would be very practical across their product lines.

Like I said, almost every manufacturer has changed components - NAND or Controllers as they have gone through rapid changes.

https://www.extremetech.com/compu...-slow-ssds

What you want to avoid are proven performance changes like the Adata or the SMR drive introduction.

What companies aren't on your blacklist? Smilie
The problem is not the company, but this line of drives. This is their trash line, they use whatever the cheapest components. It's could be downgraded to QLC NAND now.
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The problem is not the company, but this line of drives. This is their trash line, they use whatever the cheapest components. It's could be downgraded to QLC NAND now.
That is a fair comment. This is a problem with almost all budget/low-tier products as they try to cut corners to keep price down. I have not recommended this product. But have used a lot of Kingston for a long time and they have been great with their lifetime warranty for memory even when that type of memory was no longer in production. Have used their SSDs since their first generation V series and those still work.

I was responding to the post that labeled the entire company as if it was (1) recent and (2) unique to two companies to avoid all products.

Adata is on my blacklist because they were the most eggregious in replacing reviewed product quickly with a demonstrabally low performance components, so I am sympathetic to that kind of decision.

But there are a lot of blogs and articles flying around just detecting a component change as evidence of fraud or scam. Samsung replaced a controller almost silently but it was to a newer controller from 4th Gen into a 3rd Gen.

There are valid reasons to replace components over a model's life time and changing the model name or number midway is expensive marketing and packaging-wise. So, I would judge what the impact of the change is before knee-jerking on the whole compant hearing of a component change.
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