Kingston Solid State Drives

Kingston Solid-State Drives

Kingston is one of the world's largest manufacturers and producers of computer and technology memory-related products. Its most popular products include embedded DDR memory hardware, server memory boards, USB drives, flash cards and even solid-state drives. Solid-state drives, often shortened to SSD, use integrated circuits and assemblies without moving components, unlike older drives, which improve the performance and longevity.

Kingston manufactures its solid-state drives in a variety of different memory capacity categories. These include Kingston 120 GB solid-state drives, Kingston 240 GB solid-state drives, Kingston 480 GB solid-state drives and Kingston 960 GB solid-state drive formats. Generally speaking, solid-state drives with more memory tend to be more expensive, but other factors can also greatly influence cost.

A solid-state drive is meant to interface with other elements of a computer or with other pieces of computing technology. The most popular varieties produced by Kingston include SATA III and M.2. However, Kingston also manufactures solid-state drives with eSATA, mSATA, SATA I, SATA II, USB 2.0, and USB 3.0 interfaces.

Kingston's solid-state drives are manufactured with a wide variety of features, which include easy, removable functions, USB plug power elements and more. They are manufactured in consumer, business, enterprise and system builder grades, which marry different kinds of construction, memory storage capabilities and ease of installation.

In most cases, hard drives are installed into servers, computers or laptops. Depending on the orientation of the case and brackets of each of these, the format of the solid-state drive can influence its applicability to the piece of equipment in question. Most Kingston solid-state drives are manufactured with a form factor 2.5 inches deep, and encased. Kingston also manufactures small form-factor SSDs, either in slimline 1-inch varieties or in significantly smaller quarter-sized variants.