Kingston A400 SSD Internal Solid State Drive 2.5" SATA Rev 3.0, 960GB - SA400S37/960G

This is a great ssd, and honestly my only regret is not buying a second. This is a great value ssd for its price, capacity and speed.Yes the speed may not be the fastest like others but for its speed its a lot. For gaming the speed is more than adequate for daily use and gaming. As this is my main drive for games I have a decent bit to say. The write speeds to begin with are amazing as with a a good internet speed of 250 I am having a stable 1 GB written to the disk in 20s. This makes installing games fast. In game the performance is also great with open world games loading with ease and games like cyberpunk in seconds with low wait times.For price, this is defiantly one of them products you wait to get best bang for buck. In my case I got 480 GB for 19.99 which is a great deal.Use in PS4 is adequate, but most importantly a significant one and I could easily recommend this as games have benefit crazy amounts with open world games and environments seeing the most improvements. But coming from hdd this is expected. A sizable improvement while still staying light on the wallet.So overall great, cheap product that is excellent for old pc and console but need to wait a bit before buying.

I have three very old laptops, two running linux and one Win10. All are showing their age, so I decided to bite the bullet and see what difference upgrading one of them with an SSD would make. I downloaded the latest version of the GParted Live CD swapped the blank SSD into the laptop and the old SATA into a USB caddy, and booted up the Live CD. Checking that GParted saw both drives, I then used the linux command dd to clone the 320GB to the 480GB SSD. Took a good couple of hours but when it had completed successfully I then used GParted to resize the partitions up to the full capacity of the SSD. Unplugged the caddy, took out the CD, and rebooted. The laptop had previously taken 2 minutes to boot to logon, and then a further minute to get to a workable desktop. With the SSD, it now took a minute to get to the desktop, and every program now runs much quicker. A further plus is that the SSD takes less power, so battery life has increased. This SSD has breathed new life into my laptop.Flushed with such success, I bought two more, and now all three laptops boot up and operate much faster than before. I'm now looking speculatively at my linux server's 320GB system drive and may well make a 4th purchase. Of course it's early days, and of them may still fail (I have no experience with SSDs) but I picked Kingston as they're a reputable name so here's hoping this will remain a 5-star review.For anyone wondering what cloning software to use, GParted is the one for me. The interface is pretty intuitive, and you don't need to know linux to use it as it's graphical. It's reliable, it's free, and it can copy linux or Windows file systems.

Bought to speed up a relatively new but low-spec Lenovo laptop which was painfully slow to use even after a clean Win10 install. Enough RAM so upgrading the sluggish 2.5" hard drive to a solid state drive the next logical choice for a quick cheap boost to performance.The upgrade has transformed the base computer from having a ponderous and slow startup to one which takes a few seconds. The desktop loads instantly and everything runs beautifully even with visual effects enabled. To be fair any SSD will do similar but I've always had good experience with Kingston - excellent price/performance ratio.The owner only uses the laptop for basic web apps and browsing so 120GB for Win10 and LibreOffice is more than adequate. Any files saved to disk are uploaded straight to the cloud via Google Drive and can then be safely deleted. The basic process follows:Prepare a bootable USB drive with the Windows 10 image downloaded from Microsoft.Ensure any files you need to keep are backed up. The data on the old drive can still be accessed so don't panic too much. Remove original drive from the machine and replace with SSD.Boot from your previously prepared USB stick to install Windows on the new SSD. This gives you a nice clean version of Windows - even Lenovo add a bit of bloatware to their OEM installs and they are better than most! Click through any activation prompts as Windows will be activated automatically during final setup. Setup the desktop as desired and install any programs you really need including your preferred cloud storage ​- if you wish to install a lot or save large files then a bigger SSD will obviously be required to allow the OS to 'breathe'.£20 for 120 gigabytes of flash memory is so cheap - prices fluctuate so it's a good time to grab one. I've used several Kingston drives and I'm yet to have a problem. If you have a slow computer and can use a screwdriver it's the best and most cost-effective upgrade you can make.Sadly the days of easily swapped drives and memory are rapidly becoming a thing of the past as laptops get thinner and thinner so do make sure it is viable on your machine first. The old drive was retained and converted into an external with a £3 caddy.

Ideal for me, speeded up an elderly laptop. Not the quickest, but satisfactory for the price

Works well and easy installation, i got this so i didnt have to use my external hardrive to play games on as it was very slow but with this ssd games run far better and loading times are great, no need for an NVME ssd if you are a casual gamer like me

fast, smaller than expected and my laptop's battery life hasnt changed when using it as a secondary drive

Superb purchase. Using this external 1TB SSD massively boosted my workbenches boot time, as well as having a secondary for gaming. I would one-hundred-percent recommend to those interested.