5.0 out of 5 stars Super fast high quality SSD for games storage.

J. · 3 May 2025

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great price you can't go wrong .

D. · 28 May 2025

For the price it's a must... SSD works perfectly fine and fast too, perfect for gaming PS4, PC or TV box , or inclosure. A +++++

5.0 out of 5 stars How to speed up 3 very old laptops

S. · 1 September 2023

I have three very old laptops, two running linux and one Win10. All are showing their age, so I decided to bite the bullet and see what difference upgrading one of them with an SSD would make. I downloaded the latest version of the GParted Live CD swapped the blank SSD into the laptop and the old SATA into a USB caddy, and booted up the Live CD. Checking that GParted saw both drives, I then used the linux command dd to clone the 320GB to the 480GB SSD. Took a good couple of hours but when it had completed successfully I then used GParted to resize the partitions up to the full capacity of the SSD. Unplugged the caddy, took out the CD, and rebooted. The laptop had previously taken 2 minutes to boot to logon, and then a further minute to get to a workable desktop. With the SSD, it now took a minute to get to the desktop, and every program now runs much quicker. A further plus is that the SSD takes less power, so battery life has increased. This SSD has breathed new life into my laptop.Flushed with such success, I bought two more, and now all three laptops boot up and operate much faster than before. I'm now looking speculatively at my linux server's 320GB system drive and may well make a 4th purchase. Of course it's early days, and of them may still fail (I have no experience with SSDs) but I picked Kingston as they're a reputable name so here's hoping this will remain a 5-star review.For anyone wondering what cloning software to use, GParted is the one for me. The interface is pretty intuitive, and you don't need to know linux to use it as it's graphical. It's reliable, it's free, and it can copy linux or Windows file systems.

4.0 out of 5 stars Power at a small price

J. · 27 April 2023

Bought this for £15 and arrived by 10pm same day.Service was amazing, price was amazing at £15 for an SSD of this spec.The package arrived promptly and was well packaged in a sealed card what you may expect from a micro SD. The device didn't come with any screws or anything, just the physical 2.5" style drive and the printed packaging.It was an easy swap out on the laptop and the screws / process to install in physical device and software worked with out problems. It was notably slower than a modern m2 style ssd but compared to the likes of Samsung Evo, the difference was marginal. This was bought to replace an aging mechanical hdd which instantly showed a performance boost.Boot times halved (About 10 seconds on Win 11)Opening programs such as Chrome / MS Word was 1-2 seconds on low load and about 4-5 seconds on high load which was likely more RAM constrained.Doing a basic file transfer it took about a minute to transfer a couple of gig from one location to another. After extensive use, It is still running strong, I wouldn't advise it's use for gaming, however; to give that old laptop or PC a new lease of life, it is well worth the £15-25 price tag.I purchased the 240 GB which was more than sufficient for the purpose and if anyone wants a reasonable 240gb ssd portable, you could buy this and small usb 3.1 hdd caddy for about £8 to have a well performing portable.

5.0 out of 5 stars PC using a hard disk with Windows? This SSD will transform it! Includes Acronis cloning software.

E.P. · 26 April 2025

I have a 5-year-old Dell laptop with a conventional hard disk, 4GB RAM and a Pentium 4415 CPU with a CPU Mark of 2244. It's quite slow running Windows 10 - particularly launching apps.So I upgraded the RAM from 4GB to 12GB and launching was around 80% faster i.e. apps that took 60 seconds now took around 40 seconds; better, not bad for £15. Swapping between launched apps was faster too, but there was still a long sluggish period after launching Windows during which disk activity (reported by Task Manager) was around 100%; setting up the swap file?(I bought the RAM upgrade from Crucial Memory UK, running its compatibility tester on my laptop to be sure I bought the right thing. I'm allowed to mention Crucial because they sent me to Bolo to buy their RAM when I decided to purchase. An excellent system, win-win. I'll add a review for the RAM too.)Anyway, time to upgrade the disk. Shopping around for an SSD, the Kingston A400 was a lot cheaper than my usual source of SSDs, and I've often bought memory from them - so worth a try. It's a bare drive, no screws or brackets - although you do get a year's free use of the Acronis disk tools.Anyway, installing the SSD in the laptop should be straightforward, but I wanted to SWAP the hard disk out, so needed to clone it to the A400 first, which was trickier. First I needed to download the Kingston disk management tools to get access to the Acronis software on the laptop, then I needed to connect the A400 to a second SATA port on the laptop - which does not have a second SATA port of course. Been here before! I have a USB-to-SATA adaptor for just such situations, used that.HINT: There are other ways to clone the disk, such as using the Acronis software to create an image file, so you don't HAVE to buy a USB to SATA adaptor, but those other methods are a bit more complex.Getting the Acronis disk cloning tool to work took patience, it took multiple attempts. I *think* my laptop was downloading a Windows update in the middle of this, not sure. (HINT: Remember to disconnect from the internet or suspend Windows Updates first.) Anyway, it did work on my fifth attempt, taking around 30 minutes.Phew. With the laptop disk cloned, I could open up the laptop and swap the A400 for the hard disk. Upgrades complete, the old laptop is transformed. Window start-up and app launching is now TWO to FOUR times faster and switching between launched apps is almost instantaneous. And there's no sluggish period when Windows starts up, the SSD is fast enough to power through the swap file setup; it's only 5-10% busy rather than 100%.I am very happy. Before the upgrades, my old laptop was painfully slow to use (and, in truth, it always was). With extra memory and the Kingston SSD it's entirely usable once again. And oh so portable.It's hard for me to be certain how effective the SSD upgrade would have been on its own, but I estimate that even without the RAM upgraded (from 4GB to 12GB) it would have made the laptop much more usable, as Windows hammers that disk - not just for storage but also for virtual memory (swap file)

Confiable y rápida

E.R. · 1 June 2025

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Disque dur

n. · 12 June 2025

Produit conforme à la description du vendeur je le recommande sans problème

Ótimo ssd

G.L. · 16 June 2025

Rápido e eficiente

Verjongingskuur voor oude computers

M.H. · 31 March 2023

Ik heb onlangs de Kingston interne SSD aangeschaft om mijn oudere laptop een verjongingskuur te geven en ik moet zeggen dat ik zeer tevreden ben met de prestaties van deze schijf.Het vervangen van mijn oude harde schijf door deze Kingston interne SSD was eenvoudig en de installatie verliep soepel. De snelheid en responsiviteit van mijn laptop zijn aanzienlijk verbeterd sinds de upgrade. Het opstarten van mijn laptop en het openen van programma's gaan nu razendsnel en zonder enige vertraging. Het is geweldig om te zien dat mijn laptop weer als nieuw is en veel beter presteert dan voorheen.Ik heb ook gemerkt dat deze Kingston interne SSD bijzonder geschikt is voor het installeren van Linux. Het besturingssysteem draait soepel en probleemloos op mijn laptop en ik kan er zonder problemen mee werken. Dit betekent dat ik mijn oude laptop weer kan gebruiken voor taken zoals surfen op internet, het werken met documenten en het kijken van video's, zonder dat ik me zorgen hoef te maken over vertragingen of vastlopers.Ik ben zeer tevreden met deze Kingston interne SSD en ik zou het ten zeerste aanbevelen aan iedereen die zijn oude laptop een upgrade wil geven. Het is een betaalbare manier om je laptop een tweede leven te geven en om te genieten van de voordelen van moderne technologie. Kortom, als je op zoek bent naar een betrouwbare en efficiënte interne SSD, dan is deze Kingston interne SSD zeker de moeite waard om te overwegen.

Bueno para revivir un equipo antiguo

G. · 2 May 2025

No es un producto extraordinario comparado con otros SSD, pero es económico y cumple bien su función