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Kingston SA400S37/480G

A400 480GB

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Controller: Phison PS3111-S11. Flash Memory: Toshiba 15nm TLC. Release date ≈ Q1 2017.

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Average Bench: 70% (578th of 1003)

more Based on 14,303 user benchmarks.  Models: KINGSTON SA400S37480G, KINGSTON SA400S37480, KINGSTON SA400S37480G, KINGSTON SA400S37480G, KINGSTON SA400S3748, KINGSTON SA400S3, KINGSTON SA400S37120G
Poor: 38%Average: 70% Great: 92%

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Above average average bench

The Kingston A400 480GB averaged 30.0% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed 137MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 26.2MB/s

Below average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Kingston A400 480GB is 54.3%. This is a relatively wide range which indicates that the Kingston A400 480GB performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sustained Write Speed 199MB/s
Avg. Sequential Write Speed 237MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 14,303 samples)
Rank 57870%
Min Avg Max
181 Read 360 490
98.1 Write 237 425
82.8 Mixed 269 388
61.1 SusWrite 199 393
59.6% 266 MB/s
Min Avg Max
12.2 4K Read 26.2 35.5
18.8 4K Write 64.4 94.7
9.02 4K Mixed 28.7 42.8
111% 39.8 MB/s
Min Avg Max
14.1 DQ Read 200 284
15.4 DQ Write 234 333
14.4 DQ Mixed 137 220
126% 190 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest SSD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
260GB free (System drive)
Firmware: SBFKB1D1
SusWrite @10s intervals: 305 264 267 268 268 257 MB/s
88.4% Excellent
Read 436
Write 371
Mixed 332
SusWrite 272
79% 353 MB/s
4K Read 27.2
4K Write 74
4K Mixed 39.9
132% 47 MB/s
DQ Read 272
DQ Write 323
DQ Mixed 216
185% 271 MB/s
304GB free (System drive)
Firmware: SBFKB1D1
SusWrite @10s intervals: 285 287 287 306 299 301 MB/s
38.1% Below average
Read 103
Write 45.5
Mixed 66.3
SusWrite 294
29% 127 MB/s
4K Read 17.2
4K Write 17.3
4K Mixed 12.2
51% 15.6 MB/s
DQ Read 14.8
DQ Write 15.9
DQ Mixed 14.8
11% 15.2 MB/s
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Typical A400 480GB Builds (Compare 10,927 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.
Gaming
Gaming 68%
Battle cruiser
Desktop
Desktop 73%
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Workstation
Workstation 68%
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Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H - $71

CPU
Ryzen 5 2600AMD  $127Bench 87%, 170,402 samples4,144x
Ryzen 3 2200GAMD  $79Bench 75%, 52,296 samples1,857x
Ryzen 5 2400GAMD  $100Bench 72%, 43,213 samples1,013x
GPU
RX 580AMD  $180Bench 70%, 230,174 samples1,760x
RX 570AMD  $150Bench 61%, 72,520 samples997x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $250Bench 70%, 635,304 samples862x
SSD
A400 480GBKingston  $50Bench 70%, 14,303 samples1x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $68Bench 87%, 230,653 samples573x
Aegis DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL  $69Bench 87%, 35,659 samples481x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 1x8GBCorsair  $34Bench 42%, 24,331 samples345x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 136% - Outstanding Total price: $496

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 Comments

Controller: Phison PS3111-S11. Flash Memory: Toshiba 15nm TLC

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USA-User
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Excellent (edit your comment) Add link

1 month ago.

DEU-User
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3,491

Good

1 month ago.

terrible performance. absolutely unusable as a main drive, so much stuttering, freezing and slow loading speeds

ROU-User
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2,535

Terrible

7 months ago.

OS (win10 and linux mint 19) freezes and stutters for a few seconds when installed on this SSD.

NLD-User
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2,080

Average

2 months ago.

Cheap drive that is suitable for gaming, but performs poorly in Windows and can stutter/freeze with heavy usage. Kingston should release a new firmware to address these issues.

MYS-User
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1,873

Good

15 days ago.

i need some opinion, do u guys encounter freeze in game while put this A400 on main drive windows, i get freeze game on csgo and pubg everytime i play on it.

SRB-User
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1,726

Terrible

2 months ago.

Poor write performance, its fast when its empty ~ 200MB/s, however when it passes 20%, it becomes terrible, about 40-50MB/s, on occasion it drops below 10. On linux its useless, ubuntu 18 freezes every few minutes.

HND-User
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586

Poor

1 month ago.

Has a freezing problem, kingston need to update the firmware on these things

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