Despite its status as one of the most prominent players in the memory market, Kingston has been rolling into the SSD market for a very long time and with difficulty. The reason for this lay in not the most thoughtful pricing policy and the lack of really interesting ideas. The company has improved in recent years. This is largely due to a change in pricing policy and an emphasis on ultra-low-cost models from the Consumer series. As a result, one of the best-selling SSDs of 2021 was the Kingston A400, which was released back in 2017.


Kingston A400 is one of the cheapest SSDs in domestic retail. It is based on the triple-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory, which has firmly established itself in the affordable SSD market in recent years. For memory management, a simple but reliable Phison S11 memory controller with 32 MB of cache and support for the MacOS operating system is used. The company's previous drives with Marvell controllers couldn't do this.

The remaining representatives of the Consumer series are made to match the Kingston A400 model. For the most part, these are the same affordable 2.5, M.2 and mini-SATA drives, which combine high quality control, moderately high data transfer speeds and good memory controllers by the standards of the low-cost segment. The target audience of the Consumer series are people who are looking for the most affordable, and at the same time high-quality SSD that can replace an outdated hard drive. Well, or install a second disk in a pair with an SSD already installed under the system, which clogged up earlier than its owner planned.