Kingston Q500 SQ500S37/480G 480 GB Rugged Solid State Drive

Kingston's Q500 solid-state drive 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 up to 500MB/s and 450MB/s, this SSD is 10x faster than a traditional hard drive for higher performance, ultra-responsive multi-tasking, and an overall faster system.

Also more reliable and durable than a hard drive, 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.

• Power Consumption: Idle: 0.195 W
• Avg: 0.279 W
• Read: 0.642 W (Max)
• Write: 1.535 W (Max)
• MTBF: 1,000,000 hours
• TBW: 160TB
• Dimensions: 100.0 x 69.9 x 7.0 mm
• Weight: 41.0 g
• 10x faster than a HDD - With incredible read/write speeds the Q500 SSD will not only increase performance but can also be used to breathe new life into older systems
• Rugged - Q500 is shock- and vibration-resistant for rugged reliability when used in notebooks and other mobile computing devices
• Multiple capacities - Available in 120GB, 240GB and 480GB capacities, Q500 is designed to suit anyone's needs
• Ideal for desktops and notebooks - Q500 has a 7mm form factor to fit in a wider array of systems. Its ideal for slimmer notebooks and in systems with limited available space
• Fast start-up, loading, and file transfers
• More reliable and durable than a hard drive
• Multiple capacities with space for applications or a hard drive replacement