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A400 480GB

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

Average Bench: 74.3% (587th of 1071)

more Based on 237,487 user benchmarks.  Models: KINGSTON SA400S37480G, KINGSTON SA400S37480, KINGSTON SA400S37480G, KINGSTON SA400S37480G, KINGSTON SA400S3748, KINGSTON SA400S3, KINGSTON SA400S37120G
Poor: 39%Average: 74.3% Great: 102%

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Good average bench

The Kingston A400 480GB averaged 25.7% 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 113MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 26.8MB/s

Poor consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Kingston A400 480GB is 62.1%. This is a particularly wide range which indicates that the Kingston A400 480GB performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sustained Write Speed 266MB/s
Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 287MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 237,487 samples)
Rank 58774.3%
Min Avg Max
185 Read 399 503
26.9 Write 302 451
31.7 Mixed 287 410
81.5 SusWrite 266 460
70.2% 313 MB/s
Min Avg Max
14 4K Read 26.8 36
12.1 4K Write 64.1 109
7.32 4K Mixed 26.9 41.8
109% 39.2 MB/s
Min Avg Max
21.3 DQ Read 180 282
14.8 DQ Write 234 355
14.5 DQ Mixed 113 216
111% 176 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest SSD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
383GB free (System drive)
Firmware: SBFKK1C3
SusWrite @10s intervals: 370 363 378 384 409 421 MB/s
89.5% Excellent
Read 399
Write 321
Mixed 307
SusWrite 388
80% 354 MB/s
4K Read 29.4
4K Write 73.1
4K Mixed 31.2
123% 44.6 MB/s
DQ Read 218
DQ Write 337
DQ Mixed 169
158% 241 MB/s
95GB free (System drive)
Firmware: S3Z40107
SusWrite @10s intervals: 307 35 290 16 113 11 MB/s
72.3% Very good
Read 506
Write 431
Mixed 392
SusWrite 129
81% 364 MB/s
4K Read 22.8
4K Write 76.4
4K Mixed 27
110% 42.1 MB/s
DQ Read 163
DQ Write 328
DQ Mixed 43.9
91% 178 MB/s
445GB free
Firmware: S3H01103
SusWrite @10s intervals: 308 202 138 96 63 77 MB/s
67.8% Good
Read 444
Write 341
Mixed 125
SusWrite 147
59% 264 MB/s
4K Read 26.2
4K Write 69.9
4K Mixed 18.8
101% 38.3 MB/s
DQ Read 182
DQ Write 330
DQ Mixed 86.4
114% 200 MB/s
43GB free
Firmware: S3H0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 334 305 196 67 59 60 MB/s
58.8% Above average
Read 357
Write 290
Mixed 280
SusWrite 170
61% 274 MB/s
4K Read 26.4
4K Write 38.1
4K Mixed 22.3
89% 28.9 MB/s
DQ Read 166
DQ Write 158
DQ Mixed 103
93% 142 MB/s
235GB free
Firmware: SBFKB1D1
SusWrite @10s intervals: 347 290 334 301 322 319 MB/s
40% Average
Read 184
Write 96.3
Mixed 76.8
SusWrite 319
38% 169 MB/s
4K Read 12.5
4K Write 18.9
4K Mixed 9.8
42% 13.7 MB/s
DQ Read 14.6
DQ Write 15.7
DQ Mixed 85.5
45% 38.6 MB/s
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Typical A400 480GB Builds (Compare 13,878 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.
Gaming
Gaming 44%
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Desktop
Desktop 79%
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Workstation
Workstation 40%
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Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H - $85

CPU
Ryzen 5 2600AMD  $165Bench 73%, 446,215 samples3,097x
Ryzen 5 3600AMD  $89Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples2,301x
Ryzen 5 2600XAMD  $140Bench 74%, 142,983 samples923x
GPU
RX 580AMD  $179Bench 52%, 360,351 samples1,120x
RX 570AMD  $170Bench 45%, 473,685 samples843x
GTX 1660S (Super)Nvidia  $210Bench 71%, 428,800 samples815x
SSD
A400 480GBKingston  $28Bench 74%, 237,487 samples357x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples790x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples522x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL  $41Bench 84%, 287,720 samples361x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 83% - Excellent Total price: $497

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 Comments

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

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USA-User
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9,398

Good (edit your comment) Add link

14 months ago.

complete garbage, needs a firmware update, freezes and stutters for 5-20 seconds every few minutes, makes for anything but the most basic of internet browsing/youtube checking impossible or mind numbingly annoying to do.

GBR-User
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5,542

Poor

19 months ago.

Started getting really slow and inconsistent after 1 and a half years

DEU-User
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5,489

Terrible

2 years ago.

i have the same freeze prolems its garbage

CAN-User
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4,748

Liked

2 years ago.

Comment 

Still better than HDD in most cases, but is probably the worst SSD around. Definitely not for boot/OS as it doesn't have dram. Write speeds will disappoint once it fills up (after 50%). It gets to 30 MB/s writing, much slower than HDD. I even got 15 MB/s writes when 75% was full. But good for gaming with its good read speed—Dec '20

ROU-User
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4,437

Poor

8 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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3,352

Excellent

3 years 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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3,123

Poor

24 months 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.

ARG-User
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3,112

Good

10 months ago.

It's been reported to have lots of issues

SRB-User
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2,638

Excellent

2 years 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.

FIN-User
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2,410

Terrible

3 years ago.

Worst drive i have ever owned, freezes frequenltly, unusable

HRV-User
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2,204

Excellent

3 years ago.

i use it for a while and i can say all good things about this SSD, it is not the fastest around but for the price is everything u looked for and that's it! Thumbs up! Good SSD from 1 to 5 = solid 4

EST-User
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1,528

Good

16 months ago.

No problems for me. Works just fine as expected.

HND-User
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920

Poor

3 years ago.

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

ExecutableFiles
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124

Average

3 years ago.

needs DRAM as booting causes stutters on this one

LitHoYin
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34

Terrible

19 months ago.

I don't recommend this even for a budget build. DO NOT use it as a system drive. Yes it'll be faster than a hard disk but the reliability is questionable. Buy yourself a dram ssd for system drive, don't cheap out on it this is very important. Terrible write speed

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