Kingston’s A400 solid-state drive dramatically improves the responsiveness of your existing system with incredible boot, loading and transfer times compared to mechanical hard drives. Powered by a latest-gen controller for read and write speeds of up to 500MB/s and 450MB/s , this SSD is 10x faster than a traditional hard drive1 for higher performance, ultra-responsive multi-tasking and an overall faster system. With incredible read/write speeds, the A400 SSD will not only increase performance but can also be used to breathe new life into older systems. Rugged We recommend that you apply this update if the firmware version on your SV300 product label reads “605ABBF1”. Now issue the hdparm command again. If it worked the output will show "not frozen" (instead of "frozen").

Here we can see that the V Series is a consistent if rather slow performer. As mentioned earlier, though, the raw read and write speed is only of so much importance. So long as this drive still exhibits the snappy response that you expect from an SSD, has sufficient read/write performance, and doesn’t suffer too much from stuttering it will be worth considering. These steps, loosely called "formatting", use some of the memory cells within the device and thus reduce the capacity available for data storage by the end user.

Next we ran our gaming test whereby we perform one run through of our standard Crysis time demo and time how long it takes. Graphical settings and resolution are kept to a minimum to ensure as much time as possible is spent loading and unloading the game.

Creating a File AllocationTable (FAT) or other directory. To enable flash storage devices to store and access customer files conveniently, a file management system must be created to allow any device or computer to identify the files stored in the flash storage device. KINGSTON DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE FIRMWARE OR FIRMWARE UPDATES WILL ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE, ACCESSIBLE, UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, ACCURATE, COMPLETE OR ERROR-FREE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY INFORMATION, TEXT, GRAPHICS, LINKS OR OTHER ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN THE FIRMWARE. Kingston® SSD Manager is an application that provides users with the ability to monitor and manage various aspects of their Kingston® solid state drive.The cloning process is now complete. When the computer is shut down, you may disconnect the source disk from your computer. Now turn on your computer and you will boot to your Kingston SSD. For additional information related to the Acronis® True Image™ OEM software, please refer to the appropriate User Guide. We started our testing by adding the drive as a blank, unformatted slave drive to our test bed then ran the read and write tests of the defacto standard benchmarking app, HDTune.