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thanks to improved reliability minimal thermal output and low power consumption SSDs are becoming the norm in today's data centers and heavy computing environments the zero millisecond access time performance of SSDs assume then transform consumer PCs and they've been doing the same for businesses we're blazing fast access speeds are just as important as a reliability and advanced data protection virtually all the big-name SSD makers have been targeting both the consumer and business / enterprise markets for years now kingston has been offering enterprise class SSD solutions and today they're looking to expand their current lineup with the KC 400 series built around the files in PS 31 10 s10 controller the KC 400 series features enhanced data protection which can prevent data loss even if the entire system loses power the a channel fires and controller boasts a quad-core processor for a sequential throughput at 550 megabytes per second read and 530 megabytes per second write on the largest 1 terabyte model coupled with a random 4k read and write input/output operations per second of over 80,000 Kingston says the KC 400 is around 15 times faster than a traditional hard drive and is capable of delivering consistent performance for both compressible and incompressible data the KC 400 series provides end-to-end data path protection and smart a CCD guard data plus smart refresh to protect against read errors data is rebuilt if there's an error the drive is able to recover from an unexpected power shutdown by a firmware controller power loss management the drives are available in 128 gigabytes 256 gigabyte 512 gigabytes and one terabyte capacities all featuring a mean time between failure rate of 1 million hours so your business should be pretty well covered particularly given the KC 400 SSDs backed by limited five-year warranty what this means is the one terabyte model I have on hand is good for a total of 1600 terabytes of written data before it's expected to fight the bullet that's a massive 89 gigabytes per day of written data well that's enough about the specs let's move on to see how the KC 400 1 terabyte performs the read and write access time Kaycee 400 was extremely snappy beating all the consumer-grade SSDs including the samsung SSD 850 pro as expected the KC 400 is able to max out the SATA interface for measuring sequential performance neither the read or write tests the random 512 K write performance of the KC 400 was very strong matching some of the best results we've seen the read performance in the other hand while not weak was average at 391 megabytes per second the random 4k performance was on par with the Samsung SSD 850 Evo which meant the KC 400 was relatively strong here the KC 400 didn't set any new speed records in the PC mark 7 video editing tests with just 163 megabytes per second but this is still a respectable score and significantly faster than a mechanical drive again we find that the KC 400 provided below average performance this time in the PC mark 7 gaming benchmark still 110 megabytes per second didn't make it a great deal slower than the crucial bf 200 + MX 200 SSDs finally we find that the PC mark 8 storage bandwidth result is again quite average a throughput of 237 megabytes per second places the KC 400 between the crucial BX 200 and the samsung SSD 850 probe performance wise the Kingston KC 400 1 terabyte delivered essentially what we're expecting from an SSD touted as a high performance business solution for an SSD that places such an emphasis on reliability and data integrity the performance is still impressive given that the key selling point to the KC 400 series of the claimed reliability and advanced data protection attributes it's difficult for us to test these clans within a week of testing that forces me to fall back on pricing information to make any kind of meaningful breakdown oddly as I'm putting this video together the KC 400 series has been announced but not officially released or at least that's what's meant to be the case and it's the reason why you haven't seen any reviews until now yes as of mid Feb it's been possible to purchase the KC 400 from a number of online retailers in the US 1 terabyte model is available for a staggeringly low 370 US dollars which works out to 37 cents per gigabyte the KC 310 960 currently costs four hundred and thirty dollars while competing drives such as the micron m5 10dc 960 gigabyte plus $500 the Samsung PM 863 960p you buy even more $530 it really makes the KC 400 and unbelievably good buy I'm keen to see your pricing is adjusted once it's the major online retailers such as newegg.com I'm not expecting it to change too much at this point I can't confirm Ozzy prices either thanks for checking out the KC 400 one terabyte with me is it a portable drive you'll be considering let me know when I form a hardware box comm or in the comments I'm your host Matt and I'll see you guys next time