Despite everyone chasing NVMe for high speed, Kingston’s A400 is still popular enough to reach 100M shipped
Kingston has announced that its A400 SATA SSD has officially surpassed 100 million units shipped globally, highlighting the continued demand for affordable solid-state storage despite the industry’s broader transition toward NVMe-based solutions.
Introduced in 2017, the Kingston A400 quickly established itself as an entry-level SSD upgrade option for consumers moving away from traditional hard drives. The drive offered sequential read and write speeds of up to 500MB/s and 450MB/s respectively, delivering faster boot times, reduced application loading times, and improved data transfer performance compared to conventional HDDs.
The brand expressed that the widespread adoption of the A400 reflects the company’s continued focus on delivering storage products that balance performance, reliability, and accessibility for mainstream users. At the same time, the company noted that its storage strategy has expanded significantly beyond consumer SATA SSDs, with increased investment in high-performance NVMe SSD platforms, enterprise-grade data center storage, and industrial SSD solutions designed for edge computing environments and mission-critical workloads.
While SATA SSDs are no longer considered cutting-edge storage hardware, Kingston’s latest shipment milestone suggests the category still maintains relevance in upgrade markets, legacy systems, and cost-sensitive deployments where balancing performance improvements with affordability remains a priority.
