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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: 68.5% (594th of 1000)

more Based on 8,952 user benchmarks.  Models: KINGSTON SA400S37480G, KINGSTON SA400S37480, KINGSTON SA400S37480G, KINGSTON SA400S37480G, KINGSTON SA400S3748, KINGSTON SA400S3, KINGSTON SA400S37120G
Poor: 38%Average: 68.5% Great: 91%

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Above average average bench

The Kingston A400 480GB averaged 31.4% 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 150MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 25.6MB/s

Below average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Kingston A400 480GB is 53.2%. 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 193MB/s
Avg. Sequential Write Speed 213MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 8,952 samples)
Rank 59468.5%
Min Avg Max
165 Read 333 478
98.7 Write 213 410
83.5 Mixed 268 355
67.7 SusWrite 193 302
56.3% 252 MB/s
Min Avg Max
12.8 4K Read 25.6 36.3
18.8 4K Write 61.9 93.9
9.84 4K Mixed 29.3 43.2
109% 39 MB/s
Min Avg Max
14.2 DQ Read 202 302
15.5 DQ Write 241 333
14.5 DQ Mixed 150 221
133% 198 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest SSD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
407GB free (System drive)
Firmware: SBFKB1E1
SusWrite @10s intervals: 322 272 277 306 264 266 MB/s
84.3% Excellent
Read 293
Write 157
Mixed 251
SusWrite 284
55% 246 MB/s
4K Read 32.5
4K Write 69.7
4K Mixed 40.8
138% 47.7 MB/s
DQ Read 246
DQ Write 297
DQ Mixed 207
174% 250 MB/s
288GB free (System drive)
Firmware: SBFKB1D1
SusWrite @10s intervals: 308 278 317 274 272 309 MB/s
68.2% Good
Read 229
Write 97.4
Mixed 83.6
SusWrite 293
39% 176 MB/s
4K Read 10.8
4K Write 37.1
4K Mixed 37.1
84% 28.3 MB/s
DQ Read 269
DQ Write 326
DQ Mixed 204
180% 266 MB/s
244GB free
Firmware: SBFK61K1
SusWrite @10s intervals: 340 387 103 103 102 104 MB/s
67.1% Good
Read 299
Write 98.2
Mixed 271
SusWrite 190
48% 215 MB/s
4K Read 24.4
4K Write 48.3
4K Mixed 26.4
96% 33 MB/s
DQ Read 311
DQ Write 318
DQ Mixed 134
150% 254 MB/s
337GB free (System drive)
Firmware: SBFK71B1
SusWrite @10s intervals: 239 17 32 82 29 27 MB/s
66.7% Good
Read 445
Write 102
Mixed 334
SusWrite 70.9
52% 238 MB/s
4K Read 25.2
4K Write 64.8
4K Mixed 27.1
107% 39 MB/s
DQ Read 262
DQ Write 271
DQ Mixed 178
158% 237 MB/s
238GB free (System drive)
Firmware: SBFK61E1
SusWrite @10s intervals: 167 110 113 111 98 21 MB/s
34.1% Below average
Read 289
Write 107
Mixed 90
SusWrite 103
32% 147 MB/s
4K Read 17.8
4K Write 19.7
4K Mixed 11.3
52% 16.3 MB/s
DQ Read 14.6
DQ Write 16.2
DQ Mixed 15.3
12% 15.4 MB/s
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Gaming
Gaming 68%
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Desktop
Desktop 73%
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Workstation
Workstation 68%
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Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H - $66

CPU
Ryzen 5 2600AMD  $145Bench 88%, 129,164 samples3,018x
Ryzen 3 2200GAMD  $84Bench 75%, 39,208 samples1,326x
Ryzen 5 2400GAMD  $132Bench 73%, 32,859 samples743x
GPU
RX 580AMD  $168Bench 70%, 184,543 samples1,294x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $208Bench 70%, 570,243 samples687x
RX 570AMD  $150Bench 61%, 57,168 samples653x
SSD
A400 480GBKingston  $45Bench 69%, 8,952 samples1x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $90Bench 86%, 166,861 samples354x
Aegis DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL  $74Bench 89%, 26,269 samples353x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 1x8GBCorsair  $40Bench 43%, 20,426 samples282x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 130% - Outstanding Total price: $514

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 Comments

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

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DEU-User
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Poor

3 months ago.

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

ROU-User
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2,445

Terrible

5 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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Average

24 days 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.

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Terrible

2 days 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.

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