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A significant price drop by Futu on this SSD. Select 480GB model from dropdown and apply coupon at checkout. Enjoy :)
Kingston A400 SSD 480GB $136 Delivered @ Futu eBay
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Need 1TB to be <$250 :D
$252 > $250
We need MathNerd to confirm.
Just need to wait for the AU dollar to reach 0.7641 USD.
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Very tempting
Got one, need another- Samsung 850 evo to drop its price! Thanks TA!
Are these reliable and perform same as Samsung Evos (850 or 860) realising Sammies are pretty expensive compared to these?
I have the a400 120gb, it's a good entry ssd but i think the samsung evos run laps around this
Would this work in a MacBook Pro?
If you’re talking about the non retina MacBooks yes
In older Macbook Pro and Out of newer Macbook Pro
It's older Macbook Pro Retina.. 2012/2013 I think?
Will not fit any Retina MBP's.
How do I transfer windows from my old 120gb to this? Any gurus who can assist?
My recommendation is that you're generally better off to get a clean installation of Windows onto a new drive. You can clone the drives (I've previously used CloneZilla (Free) and Acronis Disk Image (Paid) and they work) but you tend to clone across any crap you have in your current install. Always better to perform a fresh install.
Not a problem if you're using Windows 3.11, 95, 98, 2000 simply make the new disk bootable and copy across the folders and sub-folders.
From XP to Windows 7 check this out
Install MiniTool Partition Wizard Free. After that, create a partition on the new SSD, and format it. Then click the button "Copy OS to Disk" to transfer the windows to the SSD. Now you can replace the old hard disk with the SSD.
BTW, I just bought two Kingston SSDs to replace the hard disks on my laptops, and they work great!
Just use windows System image backup and restore the image to the new disk. You will need to extend the volume afterwards. Can be done under disk management or diskpart. Not a real problem if you are going from smaller to larger. If you are going from larger to smaller you can use free tools out there from Easeus to shrink the current partition.
depends how big your current c: drive is …… it’s easy to clone to same as or bigger new drive i use easeus free, works great.
if your old drive is larger than 120gb, they you need to delete apps and get it down to fit on 120gb , then clone and reinstall apps you had to delete.
get the same size or bigger than current drive if you want the easy path and just clone.
always buy bigger than your current c: if you just want to clone.
Sometimes I feel I should ditch SAS drives and just stick a bunch of these SSDs in.
Do it.
sas was ok for servers that needed full duplex on spindle drives, i tell my customers go sata, it’s slower but large drives are cheap so can fit more storage into a server with same carbon footprint and the ssd are also cheaper.
Cheaper for me to buy servers from HP or Dell with SAS drives supplied than a barebone server and storage individually normally.
Are all ssd drives the same size? Like it would fit in a standard laptop u think?
If they are 2.5" it will be the same as 2.5" hard disk.
Make sure your laptop is using standard 2.5" drive.
Another question…. it says it does 500mb per second. I have an old plextor 128 gb m5s sata 6gb/s ssd i bought about 4 years ago for around $100. Am i right to assume the kingston one is a lot slower or am i not understanding it correctly?
It's important to keep your units straight - in this case that means Mb/s ≠ MB/s.
In general:
8 bits = 1 byte
So 800 Mb/s (megabits per second) = 100 MB/s (megabytes per second)
In this case, 6 Gb/s refers to the bandwidth of the SATA III bus interfacing the SSD and your computer. Even if you had super fast flash memory made by aliens, if you connect it through a SATA III interface to your computer, the most performance you'll ever get is 6 Gb/s. (In reality, the actual throughput is a little lower at 600MB/s = 4.8 Gb/s, due to signal processing and coding constraints.)
In the past, after the first generations of SSDs all reached the same level of technical maturity, the SATA interface used to be the limiting factor in SSD performance. You might have heard about some modern SSDs being marketed as "NVMe" with significantly faster speeds - that's because they operate via a different interface (namely PCI-e, the same interface that graphics cards use). They are not backwards compatible with SATA SSDs like the one being advertised here.
If you're just coming from a regular hard drive, and aren't doing anything crazy, SATA III is a great price-performance compromise. If you're coming from another SATA III SSD, you'll probably get similar performance, but it's always worth looking up reviews to see how physical samples perform and compare in the real world.
I think they are all already very fast I don't think you will feel it unless you use tools to test it.
There are drives that are thicker than this (say 15mm) but this being the thin standard (7mm) it will fit in any laptop that uses a 2.5" SATA drive.
My canon is going to love you for this… Thanks op
Aye, Pachelbel is going to be so happy!
My laptop thanks your TA
So cheap now, already bought WD