Kingston UV400 480GB TLC SSD Review

[HardOCP News]

The staff over at Legit Reviews has published a review of Kingston's UV400 480GB TLC SSD today. According to the review, faster speeds, larger capacities and a longer warranty are all things you can look forward to from this drive.

The UV100 series was the first TLC NAND drive for Kingston and was designed to be their low-cost budget friendly Solid-State Drive (SSD). The UV100 series wasn't anything stellar on the performance front, was only available in 60GB and 120GB capacities and had a 2-year warranty. Thanks to advancements in controller technologies and improvements in TLC NAND Flash, Kingston was able to design the UV400 series drives with much faster speeds, capacities ranging from 120GB to 960GB and offer a longer 3-year warranty period.

 

[the_servicer]

The Amazon price of the lowest capacity is remarkable. Do we expect prices to only go lower, or possibly rise in the future?

 

[DrLobotomy]

The Amazon price of the lowest capacity is remarkable. Do we expect prices to only go lower, or possibly rise in the future?

If you find out, let me know so I can invest some cash in some stocks.

 

[SvenBent]

“Kingston is currently using Toshiba 15nm TLC NAND in its UV400 SSD. As Kingston is not a semiconductor and availability is ever-changing, we may need to source NAND Flash from other suppliers whenever there are generational changes (e.g., moving to 3D NAND). NAND changes are planned out months ahead of time as any new Flash we plan to use has to pass our rigorous qualification processes. The UV400 will always meet the specs listed regardless of the internal components.” – Kingston PR

Kinda when they suddenly changed their nand chips to something much slower because it was still the same in "internal performance measurements"
SSD shadiness: Kingston and PNY caught bait-and-switching cheaper components after good reviews | ExtremeTech

 

[daglesj]

People moaned about the V300 drives but to be honest I bought loads (probably more than 50) of them to upgrade older SATA II kit where they pushed 285MBps all day long and not one has failed. Tough little drive the V300! Decent build quality too compared to SSDs costing many times more.

 

[the_servicer]

Kinda when they suddenly changed their nand chips to something much slower because it was still the same in "internal performance measurements"
SSD shadiness: Kingston and PNY caught bait-and-switching cheaper components after good reviews

Is this a reason to avoid Kingston now?

 

[daglesj]

Is this a reason to avoid Kingston now?

No. Wasn't really even back then.