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

I purchased this to upgrade my old Optiplex 3020 and it works great! I think the boot time of the old drive was over a minute and now it is 7 seconds or less!

Buena calidad de disco duro , he probado su funcionamiento durante 2 meses y a funcionado sin problemas en una Imac 2007

I like the reasonable price, big brand for ssd, the speed is acceptable.if I have more budget, I will spend money on other models ssd.

Great price. Worked perfectly in my older laptop which now boots windows 10 in 15 seconds (used to take 2 minutes)

Bought this to boot my OS rather than use my HDD. What a difference in speed! great buy to those not looking to spend a lot!

Rugged and Reliable

I purchased this drive a year or two ago. It worked fine as a cheap laptop SSD, but after recently running benchmark tests, I have realized just how bad of a drive this thing is. For just a few extra dollars, you are FAR better off with a Western Digital Blue. I have both in their SATA form installed on my computer. My Western Digital can write a 48GB transfer in about 3 minutes and 20 seconds, with a sustained write speed of 220MB/s. The exact same transfer, from the exact same source drive, took 12:30, with a sustained write speed of about 55MB/s. For just a few more dollars, you can purchase a Western Digital or Samsung and get a 400% speed increase. Or, even better, jump up to an NVME drive and achieve 800% improvement. Im only still using this Kingston as a junk drawer on my computer because throwing it away would be a bit wasteful.

So this was the cheapest SATA 3 SSD at this capacity that was already recommended. Prior to install I resized the partitions to match and then cloned it to this drive. With the mechanical HDD that came installed in the laptop cold boot time was about 30 seconds. It takes about 9 with this drive to give you an idea at the value of swapping the HDD to SDD as the primary/OS disk. This drive is slightly thinner than a standard HDD but if your laptop has mounting rails it wont make a difference. Will likely buy a Kingston to replace the HDD in another laptop as well based on the performance and ease of install. It took about 30 minutes with the cloning process (USB 3.1 based drive station attached with this drive installed) and the actual install.

Anymore, inexpensive SSDs like this are a dime a dozen. Theyre cheap, faster than an HDD, and perform as advertised. Thats what this drive does. If you want something fancy, go somewhere else. If you want a basic, solid SSD for a low price. This is it.

Simple installation, customer service was quick to replace a dead drive.