Blazing HOT: Kingston A400 240G SATA M.2 $29 Amazon

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After reading about fakes 'sold and fulfilled by Amazon', I'd double check what you're getting when you open the box and verify the warranty and serial with Kingston.
 
After reading about fakes 'sold and fulfilled by Amazon', I'd double check what you're getting when you open the box and verify the warranty and serial with Kingston.

1,500 reviews and tons of photos and descriptions, plus coming from Kingston itself, I'd say this is a solid and reliable link.

Thanks OP
 
if you dont like the deal it , dont post
"Usually ships within 1 to 2 months."

LMAO!
 
1,500 reviews and tons of photos and descriptions, plus coming from Kingston itself, I'd say this is a solid and reliable link.

Thanks OP
The reviews are really good about flushing out fakes when a warranty request goes denied, but sometimes like in cases of xeons that were being sold by amazon that were fake, the enterprise purchasers who bought these for a datacenter didn't leave a review but just returned them. I had no idea this was happening on Amazon until I did some quick searches on fake intel chips after seeing different printing on 2 being sold here in the forum. It shocked me to find out that these fakes were being sold by Amazon themselves. Just a word of caution for anyone wanting to avoiding getting scammed as the fakes are coming in droves and are more prevalent on Amazon and ebay then it seems.
 
if you dont like the deal it , dont post
Is this really a deal? The 2.5" version of this drive is also $30 at Amazon and Best Buy. Given that m2 slots are usually limited to one or two, using one up on a 240g drive seems wasteful to me.

I've been in the market for an SSD but went with this instead....

https://slickdeals.net/f/12979627-m...ee-shipping?src=SiteSearchV2_SearchBarV2Algo1
https://slickdeals.net/f/12988963-5...45-free-s-h?src=SiteSearchV2_SearchBarV2Algo1

$15 more for a 512GB Micron drive. Double the storage for $15 more (less if you factor in tax) and in stock, with choice of Amazon or Newegg. Seemed like the better buy to me.
 
Is this really a deal? The 2.5" version of this drive is also $30 at Amazon and Best Buy. Given that m2 slots are usually limited to one or two, using one up on a 240g drive seems wasteful to me.

I've been in the market for an SSD but went with this instead....

https://slickdeals.net/f/12979627-m...ee-shipping?src=SiteSearchV2_SearchBarV2Algo1
https://slickdeals.net/f/12988963-5...45-free-s-h?src=SiteSearchV2_SearchBarV2Algo1

$15 more for a 512GB Micron drive. Double the storage for $15 more (less if you factor in tax) and in stock, with choice of Amazon or Newegg. Seemed like the better buy to me.


I guess we would need to ask every single individual here if this is a good deal for them. I certainly don't have that amount of time. $29 is a smoking deal. It's also the most popular format as of late. So you can see where I whittled it all down to make the broadest stroke.

You're also throwing a whole slew of new metrics into the picture, additional costs being the biggest one. There are a lot of people that will spend $29 over having to spend $50.

And if we are going to go that route, why not 1tb? I see several that are also a bit more of money here and there. And, let's not stop at 1tb, I see some 2tb's that are just a bit more money as well.

Suddenly this hot deal is a mess and all over the place.

I think we can all just agree to stick with the original hot deal as they are posted. Any potentail buyer in the end, I'm sure, can handle the micro-management side of their purchases and branch off here or there.
 
if you dont like the deal it , dont post
I guess we would need to ask every single individual here if this is a good deal for them. I certainly don't have that amount of time. $29 is a smoking deal. It's also the most popular format as of late. So you can see where I whittled it all down to make the broadest stroke.

You're also throwing a whole slew of new metrics into the picture, additional costs being the biggest one. There are a lot of people that will spend $29 over having to spend $50.

And if we are going to go that route, why not 1tb? I see several that are also a bit more of money here and there. And, let's not stop at 1tb, I see some 2tb's that are just a bit more money as well.

Suddenly this hot deal is a mess and all over the place.

I think we can all just agree to stick with the original hot deal as they are posted. Any potentail buyer in the end, I'm sure, can handle the micro-management side of their purchases and branch off here or there.

No need to get so defensive. For most people $15 won't break the bank especially when you're getting a higher quality drive with over twice the capacity. The jump to 1TB will increase cost by around $60-75. The storage per dollar ratio won't be as favorable either. 240GB just isn't much space these days. I'm sure it will be nice for some people but in general most will opt for the other deal.
 
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Ok, so I should consider including different items and different price points instead of just one hotdeal? Ok I can try and do that. Not sure I will have time but I can give it a try.

How many items should I try and list, 3, 4 or 5? At varying price points?

So your saying that $15 is about the right amount of money most people can afford over an initial cost for something? For example, if I find a SSD for $30 dollars then I can kinda just skip that SSD and go and find one that cost $45 instead and then list that one as a hot deal? Ok, this is starting to make sense now.

So basically not a hot deal anymore but like a top 5 best SSD's and different price points or top 2 or 3 or whatever.

interesting .....

So I need to start a blog post then?

Need some guidance here guys, I want to get this right and make you guys happy.

I sure am gonna miss the good 'ol days of just posting 1 hot deal to the hot deal forums. Life was so much easier then.
 
1,500 reviews and tons of photos and descriptions, plus coming from Kingston itself, I'd say this is a solid and reliable link.

Thanks OP

The reviews are really good about flushing out fakes when a warranty request goes denied, but sometimes like in cases of xeons that were being sold by amazon that were fake, the enterprise purchasers who bought these for a datacenter didn't leave a review but just returned them. I had no idea this was happening on Amazon until I did some quick searches on fake intel chips after seeing different printing on 2 being sold here in the forum. It shocked me to find out that these fakes were being sold by Amazon themselves. Just a word of caution for anyone wanting to avoiding getting scammed as the fakes are coming in droves and are more prevalent on Amazon and ebay then it seems.

It's because Amazon uses a mixed inventory system. The items are NOT shipped by the company listing them in most cases, it doesn't matter who you select. Most items are still shipped by Amazon, even though Kingston might be the one selling them, the items are sent to Amazon who warehouses them, but they store everything together, so someone buying from a legit seller can still get a fake item, because when they pull the item from inventory they are pulling the item from ALL the sellers mixed together and it's a roll of the dice if the packer picks a legit item or counterfeit. The only way to get around this is for items that are shipped and sold by the seller, however most items on Amazon will be listed as "shipped by Amazon", big time if they are Prime eligible.
 
whats so great about this particular drive/model? i just picked up a 240gb 2.5" Kingston for $29 at micro center the other day.

EDIT: lol, it was indeed an A400 2.5" model i picked up. wonder if the m.2 would be faster?
 
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It's because Amazon uses a mixed inventory system. The items are NOT shipped by the company listing them in most cases, it doesn't matter who you select. Most items are still shipped by Amazon, even though Kingston might be the one selling them, the items are sent to Amazon who warehouses them, but they store everything together, so someone buying from a legit seller can still get a fake item, because when they pull the item from inventory they are pulling the item from ALL the sellers mixed together and it's a roll of the dice if the packer picks a legit item or counterfeit. The only way to get around this is for items that are shipped and sold by the seller, however most items on Amazon will be listed as "shipped by Amazon", big time if they are Prime eligible.
Not anything bad to say on the deal here. But while I purchase from Amazon (another thing to add) their review system is a mess, especially with grouped items (memory mixes/cpu fans all mixed across different models but same brand/spark plugs/car parts/especially audio LP and CD reviews mixed). I haven't been burned yet but have to realllllllly pay attention. I really wish they separated the legit purchase/product reviews from the people who got scammed from a shitty seller etc.
 
On a side note on these drives, obviously they kill mechanical, but has anyone run into this issue of no dram on these and like the bx500 series? I know this is a value drive but a good drive/value regardless. I was just wondering in real world experience how much an enduser would notice. Like other than long benchmarks or Crazy data amounts of transfers is it really going to do much in real world use, especially if the user isn't even a power user? Like does it ever really hurt/halt use that bad vs other drives with dram controllers? I've seen reviews but was curious with real world use.
 
whats so great about this particular drive/model? i just picked up a 240gb 2.5" Kingston for $29 at micro center the other day.

EDIT: lol, it was indeed an A400 2.5" model i picked up. wonder if the m.2 would be faster?
Should be the same. The advantage is no cable management or if you only have that type of expansion spot (link in a notebook etc)
 
Ok, so I should consider including different items and different price points instead of just one hotdeal? Ok I can try and do that. Not sure I will have time but I can give it a try.

How many items should I try and list, 3, 4 or 5? At varying price points?

So your saying that $15 is about the right amount of money most people can afford over an initial cost for something? For example, if I find a SSD for $30 dollars then I can kinda just skip that SSD and go and find one that cost $45 instead and then list that one as a hot deal? Ok, this is starting to make sense now.

So basically not a hot deal anymore but like a top 5 best SSD's and different price points or top 2 or 3 or whatever.

interesting .....

So I need to start a blog post then?

Need some guidance here guys, I want to get this right and make you guys happy.

I sure am gonna miss the good 'ol days of just posting 1 hot deal to the hot deal forums. Life was so much easier then.
Just continue to post, I'm happy with you sharing anything you can find, even if it's just one drive :)

Hell if I could get to a microcenter I'd certainly have bought that Inland deal you posted
 
Not anything bad to say on the deal here. But while I purchase from Amazon (another thing to add) their review system is a mess, especially with grouped items (memory mixes/cpu fans all mixed across different models but same brand/spark plugs/car parts/especially audio LP and CD reviews mixed). I haven't been burned yet but have to realllllllly pay attention. I really wish they separated the legit purchase/product reviews from the people who got scammed from a shitty seller etc.

Thats another issue, because the search system sucks balls, you can see a 4.5 star rating, but it's a listing for 6 different models, and only one of those is pushing the rating way up. Amazon does have a seller rating button, but no one uses it, so many use the product review for reviewing a bad seller, or getting a fake product, blaming the seller, when really the seller might be listing legit items, but when they ordered the Amazon picker picked a fake item sent in by another seller for Amazon to warehouse. The other issue is searching by rating, 5-6 pages of items with 1-2 5 star reviews, or a handful of paid for 5 star reviews, but the item you are really looking for with 2,500+ 4.5 star reviews is listed at the end....Like wtf? I have had this happen were I was searching for specific model/UPC numbers and STILL have it way back on the 2nd or 3rd page.

I spend A LOT of money with Amazon every year, and to this day, this is still one of my biggest gripes.
 
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