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May 1, 2023 3:41 AM

Kingston A400 2.5" SATA III 2.5" Internal SSD: 480GB $24, 240GB $17, 120GB

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Amazon has Kingston A400 2.5" SATA III 2.5" Internal Solid State Drives on sale from $14.99. Shipping is free with Prime or on $25+ orders.

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  • 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)
  • 3-year limited warranty

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Amazon has Kingston A400 2.5" SATA III 2.5" Internal Solid State Drives on sale from $14.99. Shipping is free with Prime or on $25+ orders.

Thanks to Community Member ChicoDad for sharing this deal.

Available: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)
  • 3-year limited warranty

Editor's Notes

Written by slickdewmaster | Staff
  • About this Offer:
    • This sale prices beats this previous FrontPage Deal from December 2022 which received over 40 thumbs up from the community.
  • About this Product:
    • This is rated 4.8 out of 5 stars based on over 192,600 ratings at Amazon.
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May 1, 2023 5:51 AM
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R3DTR1XMay 1, 2023 5:51 AM
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so cheap!
May 1, 2023 2:09 PM
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TurtlePerson2May 1, 2023 2:37 PM
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Quote from DrMASE View quoted comment :
TLC NAND, so relatively short lifespan / TB of writes.
To clarify for those who aren't knowledgeable, SSDs have a number TBW (TB written) for which the manufacturer warranties that the drive will not fail. SSDs also have a time warranty (in this case 3 years). So with the 120 GB drive, if you stay under the TBW (40 TB) and have the drive fail within 3 years, they'll replace it for you.

Many people mistakenly assume that the TBW rating is an estimation of how long the drive will last (e.g. half will fail at the TBW rating), but this isn't the case. While TBW does correlate with the expected lifetime of the drive, most SSDs will last well beyond the TBW rating.

TBW is proportional to the size of the drive. For example, the 120 GB version is 40 TBW and the 240 GB version is 80 TBW.

Usually, I'd tell people that they'll never hit the TBW number on any drive before the warranty expires, but since the 120 GB drive is so small, it's possible that an almost normal use case could hit that. It's kind of weird to think about someone turning over the contents of their drive 400 times in 3 years, but I could imagine a professional photographer writing 100 GB each weekend to the drive, editing the files and then moving them to some kind of long-term backup storage. If that's you, then you can probably spend the extra money for the $20 drive.
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May 1, 2023 3:28 PM
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MYokeRNetEMay 1, 2023 3:28 PM
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TBW for all the sizes on the deal:
120GB — 40TB
240GB — 80TB
480GB — 160TB
960GB — 300TB
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MWinkMay 2, 2023 3:33 AM
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Quote from TurtlePerson2 View quoted comment :
To clarify for those who aren't knowledgeable, SSDs have a number TBW (TB written) for which the manufacturer warranties that the drive will not fail. SSDs also have a time warranty (in this case 3 years). So with the 120 GB drive, if you stay under the TBW (40 TB) and have the drive fail within 3 years, they'll replace it for you.

Many people mistakenly assume that the TBW rating is an estimation of how long the drive will last (e.g. half will fail at the TBW rating), but this isn't the case. While TBW does correlate with the expected lifetime of the drive, most SSDs will last well beyond the TBW rating.

TBW is proportional to the size of the drive. For example, the 120 GB version is 40 TBW and the 240 GB version is 80 TBW.

Usually, I'd tell people that they'll never hit the TBW number on any drive before the warranty expires, but since the 120 GB drive is so small, it's possible that an almost normal use case could hit that. It's kind of weird to think about someone turning over the contents of their drive 400 times in 3 years, but I could imagine a professional photographer writing 100 GB each weekend to the drive, editing the files and then moving them to some kind of long-term backup storage. If that's you, then you can probably spend the extra money for the $20 drive.
I'm glad to see more people pointing this out. The most host writes I've ever personally seen on a drive was 27TB on a 5 year old SK Hynix 128GB that was being taken out of service. To my surprise the drive was still reporting 95% life left. Most people aren't going to come close to hitting the TBW limit during the duration of the warranty. As for your example, I can't imagine many professional photographers are using the cheapest 120GB SSD for work. To take things further, is anyone going to bother doing an RMA on a $13 drive?

Quote from DrMASE View quoted comment :
TLC NAND, so relatively short lifespan / TB of writes.
Assuming these drives are even still TLC, what more do you want? There are no more MLC drives in the consumer space, let alone SLC. Be glad it's not QLC. 3D TLC is currently the best case scenario.
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Luigis3rdcousinMay 2, 2023 3:46 AM
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This is probably my favorite cheap dram cacheless drive on the market at the moment. These are very reliable and I've never had a bad one.
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If you need cloning software, there's so many good ones that are free like clonezilla, macrium reflect free edition, aoemi backup,
If you need a usb cable to clone it, you can get a Sabrent usb cable and download the sabrent version for free
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May 2, 2023 1:32 PM
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SuperMonkeyMay 2, 2023 1:32 PM
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Is this good for security cameras like Eufy?
May 2, 2023 1:39 PM
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tominctMay 2, 2023 1:39 PM
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Does this come with a software migration / drive cloning software?
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Quote from SuperMonkey View quoted comment :
Is this good for security cameras like Eufy?
I would personally do a spinning disk for security cameras. Seagate and WD make surveillance HDD that are specifically for constant writing
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Quote from OrangeShow9395 View quoted comment :
I would personally do a spinning disk for security cameras. Seagate and WD make surveillance HDD that are specifically for constant writing

This. If you record 24x7x365 and have a decent number of cameras, you will need a large amount of space to hold the recordings for a reasonable amount of time. "Reasonable" would vary by application\user, but I generally want to keep at least a week or 2. The constant writing will burn up SSDs a lot faster in theory and that is not even factoring in the added cost of larger ssds.
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May 2, 2023 1:54 PM
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VeeTeeFMay 2, 2023 1:54 PM
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Slightly more than $0.04/GB for the 960GB model is hard to pass up even though I don't have any need for it. Decisions decision...
May 2, 2023 2:32 PM
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alcieMay 2, 2023 2:32 PM
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Just curious, what is the use case people have for these drives in 2023?
Mine is a replacement drive for an old to a very old computers which have some support role, not a primary desktop machine. Equipment control, for one.
THose have pretty low use of resources, so TBW rating is pretty irrelevant...
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Birdlawyer93May 2, 2023 2:55 PM
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Quote from alcie View quoted comment :
Just curious, what is the use case people have for these drives in 2023?
Mine is a replacement drive for an old to a very old computers which have some support role, not a primary desktop machine. Equipment control, for one.
THose have pretty low use of resources, so TBW rating is pretty irrelevant...
I use these to rehab older machines without m2 ports. Mostly 4th to 9th gen intel boxes. Some are for homelab shenanigans, others I setup for nonprofits or my buddies in their garages. They are also cheaper than good flash drives at this price, so i have some of the larger drives as portable media storage using a cheap USB to sata cable.

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May 2, 2023 3:11 PM
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johnny121May 2, 2023 3:11 PM
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Same price thru B&H Photo, without the $25 minimum order of Amazon.

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