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47.99 Kingston Digital A400 SSD 240GB SATA 3 2.5” Solid State Drive SA400S37/240G - Increase Performance

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[Amazon.ca] 47.99 Kingston Digital A400 SSD 240GB SATA 3 2.5” Solid State Drive SA400S37/240G - Increase Performance

Not the best price, but if you need it
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Please put price in the title.
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imoo2u wrote: Please put price in the title.
Thanks.
No kidding
Guess he perhaps couldnt decide where or if and what words to remove
Tricky stuff, posting and including important and relevant info on a forum for good deals. Item, store, price. Gee wizz. They should make a checklist for these type of people or enable a "slow mode" where it breaks down a template for them with required fields.
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Kingston PR and marketing is peddling this particular drive and model fierce to many online stores. Amazon, Newegg, Mikescomputers, Canadacomputers, Memoryexpress, etc.

I expect the price to be $39.99 on Black Friday and $44.99 on Cyber Monday.
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$44.99 @ Newegg on Ebay: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Kingston-A400-2 ... 1777414211

I know there's been lots of discussion about the performance of this drive, and personally I would put something better in a modern system.

BUT would this be a solid performer as an upgrade to a 2009 iMac? As far as I know it only has a SATA II port, so what would be the bottleneck: The drive or the SATA interface? In other words RFD, would this be a good buy for an older Mac?
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morden wrote: $44.99 @ Newegg on Ebay: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Kingston-A400-2 ... 1777414211

I know there's been lots of discussion about the performance of this drive, and personally I would put something better in a modern system.

BUT would this be a solid performer as an upgrade to a 2009 iMac? As far as I know it only has a SATA II port, so what would be the bottleneck: The drive or the SATA interface? In other words RFD, would this be a good buy for an older Mac?
I have this SSD for 2 years already. no issues. Performance is normal as well
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bobitto wrote: I have this SSD for 2 years already. no issues. Performance is normal as well
What are the specifics of your setup temp/on/off time?? I'm alway curious how peoples setups are. I see it a bit like a car. One person may have it for 2 yrs and the same for the other person but one may be hard on driving it while the other isn't....along with terrain/temps/mileage.

ie: Room temp 21, on 6-10hrs per day, off 14-18hrs
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morden wrote: $44.99 @ Newegg on Ebay: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Kingston-A400-2 ... 1777414211

I know there's been lots of discussion about the performance of this drive, and personally I would put something better in a modern system.

BUT would this be a solid performer as an upgrade to a 2009 iMac? As far as I know it only has a SATA II port, so what would be the bottleneck: The drive or the SATA interface? In other words RFD, would this be a good buy for an older Mac?
Well what is the *actual* throughput of your current drive, and how does that compare to the theoretical limit of sata II?

As a general rule, an upgrade to ssd from platter almost always results in an appreciable perf boost.
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this ssd is great for the price (well, i bought mine used for $30..) i use it as my main drive and my computer boots to desktop in 4 seconds.
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thedealhunter2000 wrote: What are the specifics of your setup temp/on/off time?? I'm alway curious how peoples setups are. I see it a bit like a car. One person may have it for 2 yrs and the same for the other person but one may be hard on driving it while the other isn't....along with terrain/temps/mileage.

ie: Room temp 21, on 6-10hrs per day, off 14-18hrs
My PC switched on 24/7. SSD is used for OS, software and few games.
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morden wrote: $44.99 @ Newegg on Ebay: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Kingston-A400-2 ... 1777414211

I know there's been lots of discussion about the performance of this drive, and personally I would put something better in a modern system.

BUT would this be a solid performer as an upgrade to a 2009 iMac? As far as I know it only has a SATA II port, so what would be the bottleneck: The drive or the SATA interface? In other words RFD, would this be a good buy for an older Mac?

Yes, the bottleneck would be the Sata II at a theoretical 375 MBps so in that example ANY SSD would perform the same, even the cheapest ones. It would be pointless to buy anything else. The iMac might die before the SSD.

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morden wrote: $44.99 @ Newegg on Ebay: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Kingston-A400-2 ... 1777414211

I know there's been lots of discussion about the performance of this drive, and personally I would put something better in a modern system.

BUT would this be a solid performer as an upgrade to a 2009 iMac? As far as I know it only has a SATA II port, so what would be the bottleneck: The drive or the SATA interface? In other words RFD, would this be a good buy for an older Mac?
For a 2009 iMac your two options are internal SSD but installing it isn’t for the faint of heart. You also will need special parts to ensure proper fan function in the iMac. The other alternative is to use a FireWire 800 enclosure (externally powered preferred). I ran a 2010 iMac for over a year on a FireWire 800 Samsung 850 EVO SSD and it was OK, until I bought a 2017 27” 5K iMac with 1 TB PCIe SSD. Now I use the 2010 27” 2.5K iMac as an external monitor for my 2017 iMac.

However, these days those FireWire 800
enclosures are not easy to find and generally are not cheap. Or you can pay a tech to install it internally if you want it internal but don’t want to install that yourself.

Performance should be fine but see below for more info.
Temporel wrote: Yes, the bottleneck would be the Sata II at a theoretical 375 MBps so in that example ANY SSD would perform the same, even the cheapest ones. It would be pointless to buy anything else. The iMac might die before the SSD.
That is not correct. Perceived performance is most dependent upon random access speeds, which is often significantly lower than SATA II speeds on many SSDs. So, the slower / cheaper SSDs often feel slower than the faster ones even on slower Macs. In fact, depending upon the drives compared you can often notice the difference in decade old Core 2 Duo based machines. I’ve tested slow vs moderately fast SSDs on a 2008 2.0 GHz C2D MacBook and a 2009 2.26 GHz C2D MacBook Pro and it made a significant difference on both.

Fortunately random/write speeds on the Kingston A400 are reasonable so it should make a decent upgrade to the 2009 iMac. There are a lot of SSDs out there though that perform significantly worse though.

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