Article Kingston Q500 SSD Review: Incredible Speeds and Rock-Solid Reliability
By Insight Editor / 24 Oct 2018 / Topics: Storage
By Insight Editor / 24 Oct 2018 / Topics: Storage
Kingston’s Q500 SSD 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 of up to 500MB/s and 450MB/s*, this SSD is 10x faster than a traditional hard drive*, delivering higher performance, ultra-responsive multi-tasking and an overall faster system.
Also more reliable and durable than a hard drive, the Kingston Q500 is built with Flash memory. There are no moving parts, making it less likely to fail than a mechanical hard drive. It’s also cooler and quieter, and its shock and vibration resistance makes it ideal for notebooks and other mobile computing devices.
The Kingston Q500 is available in multiple capacities from 120GB–480GB** to give you all the space you need for applications, videos, photos and other important documents. You can also replace your hard drive or a smaller SSD with a drive big enough to hold all your files.
This SSD is designed for use in desktop and notebook computer workloads, and is not intended for server environments.
Ideal for desktops and notebooks – Q500 has a 7mm form factor to fit in a wider array of systems. It’s ideal for slimmer notebooks and in systems with limited available space.
* Based on “out-of-box performance” using a SATA Rev. 3.0 motherboard. Speed may vary due to host hardware, software and usage. IOMETER random 4k random read/write is based on an 8GB partition.
**Some of the listed capacity on a Flash storage device is reserved for formatting and other functions. As such, the actual available capacity for data storage is less than what is listed on the products.
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