Tuesday, May 12th 2026
Kingston Ships its 100 Millionth A400 SATA SSD
Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, today announced it has shipped more than 100 million units of the Kingston A400 SATA solid-state drive. Launched in 2017, the Kingston A400 quickly gained recognition for its impressive performance in terms of booting, loading, and transferring data when compared to traditional hard drives.
The Kingston A400 SATA SSD boasts remarkable read/write speeds of up to 500 MB/s and 450 MB/s, respectively. This significant speed enhancement provided customers with a performance improvement over conventional hard drives. With this level of efficiency, the A400 series became a preferred choice for consumers seeking enhanced data transfer rates and overall system responsiveness.
"Kingston remains committed to delivering products that combine performance, quality, and reliability. The widespread adoption and positive reception of the A400 SATA SSD demonstrate Kingston's ability to meet the evolving storage needs of a broad range of users," said Keith Schimmenti, SSD business manager, Kingston. "Building on this success, Kingston continues to accelerate innovation across high-performance NVMe solutions, enterprise-grade data center SSDs, and integrated industrial SSD offerings to support the demands of modern data centers, edge environments, and mission-critical applications."
The Kingston A400 SATA SSD boasts remarkable read/write speeds of up to 500 MB/s and 450 MB/s, respectively. This significant speed enhancement provided customers with a performance improvement over conventional hard drives. With this level of efficiency, the A400 series became a preferred choice for consumers seeking enhanced data transfer rates and overall system responsiveness.
5 Comments on Kingston Ships its 100 Millionth A400 SATA SSD
Back then, the A400 (kit inclusive) were great because for the price they came out, we were fine with the performance dip and technically less featured controller (vs. KC300), to quickly replace as much spinning rust as we could.
Not that other people are doing much better but this "up to" false advertising needs to die. Better if they announced sustained performance.
This one has been used for the page file on my X58 system since 2019. It doesn't get as much writes now that it's not my main PC anymore and I have upgraded the RAM from 24GB to 48GB.