Product Comparison: PNY CS900 vs Kingston A400

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PNY CS900 120GB Internal SSD

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Kingston A400 Solid State Drive (2.5 Inch, SATA III)

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General Specifications

Brand

PNY

Kingston

Model

CS900

A400

Origin

Malaysia

China

About the Product

Upgrade to a PNY SSD to experience PC performance that's up to 20x faster than a traditional HDD. Featuring no moving parts, PNY SSDs complete random operations rapidly. You PC will feel brand new with faster boot up time, quick application launch, and a better overall computing experience.

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 500 MB/s and 450 MB/s.

Key Specs

Capacity

120 GB

480 GB

Read Speed

515 Mb/s

500 Mb/s

Write Speed

490 Mb/s

450 Mb/s

What customers say about "Key Specs"

PNY CS900 120GB Internal SSD

It works pretty good with very acceptable read and writes speeds for a medium/low budget SSD.
I reccomend anybody that has a slow laptop to replace the default hard drive with a ssd you wont be disappointed with results , good quality and performance from pny.
Fitted this drive into my 2012 laptop and the speed improvement is stunning. Boots up in 12 seconds. Incredibly cheap.
Just what you want from an SSD, fast, easy and reliable.
A Very fast and well made SSD drive, Useing it in an i3 Dell laptop, it gives me a 8 secound boot up.

Kingston A400 Solid State Drive (2.5 Inch, SATA III)

This is a great ssd robust, decent speed and has never given me any problems.
Startup time went from a few minutes to about 15 seconds, and everything runs much faster and smoother. Good purchase!
My computer boots up in less than 15 secs and thats including logging in with my password set. Recommended for everyone!
My overall boot time including passwords, apps launching etc is around 10-15 seconds which is handy.
I have been using it for a few days and my boot-up time has reduced from around 4 minutes to around 30 seconds.

Size & Weight

Height

0.27 in.

Width

3.93 in.

Depth

2.75 in.

Weight

1.44 oz.

Features

Form Factor

2.5

Interface

SATA III

Memory Chip Type

3D TLC

3D NAND

Encryption Algorithm

AES 256-bit

Extras

Low power consumption, cool and quiet operation, Faster boot up and quicker application launch, Better overall system performance

Fast start-up, loading and file transfers, Multiple capacities, Rugged

What customers say about "Features"

PNY CS900 120GB Internal SSD

Decent quality, easy to fit as well.
Excellent product easy to install and very fast.
Super easy to install, one of the easiest and cheapest upgrades you can give a PC and for this price it's hard to justify not doing it.
Simple to fit, good make, fast and cheap.
It's an easy fit but is a bare drive with no cloning software.

Kingston A400 Solid State Drive (2.5 Inch, SATA III)

Very light, easy to install (unscrew case, unscrew old drive, screw in new drive).
The drive is very lightweight, easy to install. Seems quite fast.
Fairly easy to install and to clone my existing drive .I'm not disappointed!
Only drawback was that I thought it would be easy to clone the old drives to swap the new ones in, but that was a total pain, so ended up doing a fresh install and copying data across to new drive.
My issue is that there is no drive imaging software support from Kingston for the this range of SSDs, most disappointing.

Warranty / Certifications

Manufacturer Warranty

3 year(s)

Certifications

CE, FCC

Other Information

Manufacturer

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Manual

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