BRAND NEW. SEALED IN RETAIL PACKAGING. 

Kingston's new KC400 is an addition to its SSDNow range of solid-state drives and is aimed at both consumers and business users wanting a top-performance drive that's reliable. But does it live up to the firm's claims? Read our Kingston KC400 review to find out about its features and how it compares to other SSDs in the market. With a lot of its competitors offering long warranty periods, Kingston is confident in the KC400: it covers it with a five-year warranty. Kingston SSD toolbox has a whole host of utilities for wiping the drive securely, as well as checking the state of your SSD and its remaining life span. 

The KC400's controller is the Phison 3110, which has two features for those wanting reliability and protection from read/write errors. SmartECC is designed to extend the life and durability by providing better levels of error correction, while SmartRefresh protects from read errors as the SSD wears out of its NAND cells. However, both of these technologies are somewhat of an industry standard. More about the technology can be read on Phison's website. The KC400 has a SATA III 6GB/s interface. Those with a laptop might want to know that the SSD's quoted power consumption is 3.74W whilst active and 0.255W in idle mode. 

We ran various benchmarks on the KC400 to see how it performs against its competitors. To accomplish this we used CrystalDiskMark and AS SSD benchmark. 

We found the Kingston KC400 to perform very well in the vast majority of benchmarks. It performed remarkably well in the sequential read/write benchmarks. 

The Kingston KC400 SSDNow 512GB is a fantastic SSD which delivers consistent high-speed performances across various benchmarks. The SSD is easy to recommend for those wanting to upgrade from their old hard drives or older generation SSDs, but it's more expensive than the Samsung 850 Evo.