Kingston A400 SA400S37/960G 960 GB

One of the most affordable and popular SSD drives on the market, which does not even think of dropping out of the top sales even though it went on sale back in 2018. The manufacturer positions it as an affordable and reliable system drive in a PC or laptop, from which it is not required to overwrite 300-500 GB of data daily. Due to its affordable price, it is an inexpensive and much faster alternative to old and clumsy HDD drives.

Refers to the 2.5” format and supports connection via SATA 3 bus. Kingston A400 SA400S37/960G is assembled from a 4-bit 3D TLC NAND flash memory array, the available Phison PS3111-S11 solution is used as a control controller. To keep up with the times in 2020, Kingston engineers equipped the device with a small 32 MB DRAM buffer, which helps it keep speed at an acceptable level when writing large amounts of data, whether it be gaming distributions, a collection of favorite 4K movies, work projects in conditional Pro Tools, etc.

To further improve efficiency, about 6% of the total drive capacity was allocated for the SLC cache. The sequential read and write speeds declared by the manufacturer are 500 and 450 MB / s, respectively. It is important to note that this is the ceiling for the SATA3 bus, only M.2 SSD drives supporting the NVMe protocol can provide faster performance. The manufacturer declares a guaranteed write resource of 300 TB, thanks to which the user can rewrite about 150 GB of data daily for 5 years.