Kingston A400 solid-state drive dramatically improves the responsiveness of your existing system with incredible Boot, loading and transfer times compared to mechanical hard drives. Powered by a latest Gen controller for read and write speeds up to 500MB/s and 450MB/s 1, This SSD is 10x faster than a traditional hard drive 1 for higher performance, ultra-responsive multi-tasking and an overall faster system. Also, more reliable and durable than a hard drive, A400 is built with flash memory.