Dont buy tht a400. By right never ever buy a super low end ssd from kingston. Somewhre in year 2014 , kingston used to have a low end model call V300. Different batch get different type of NAND chips. Performance difference are significant.

Kingston themselves dont manufacture NAND chips , RAM and the SSD controller. They only assemble them. Bill of materials wise they just buy watever is available on the market that is cheap for the low end segment. Kingston is more like an assembly company.

Crucial on the other hand belongs to Micron. They produce their own NAND chips and RAM. They only buy the SSD controller from 3rd party. Their product QC is good because of this. Thts y i also recommend to buy MX500 if cheap ssd is all you want. Never go below that.

For the entire SSD industry, only Samsung produce everything by themselves . NAND chips, RAM and SSD controller. QC is top of the line. Of coz here you pay through your nose for a Samsung SSD.

This post has been edited by k!nex: Nov 29 2018, 02:07 PM

Those are rebadged. Not only Kingston does that, even Apacer and Kingmax do that. Still these companies do not manufacture their own RAM chips themselves.

Today's world are only left with 3 DRAM manufacturers . Samsung , Hynix and Micron. Only 3 companies producing DRAM chips for the entire planet. So everybody else like , Kingston , A-Data , G-Skill have to buy their chips from these 3 companies.
The thing you read is most likely related to those semiconductor companies that do not have their own wafer fabrication foundry. A good example is Nvidia. TSMC manufactures most of their chips. However, Samsung is the manufacturer for their GP107 chips, which you can find in the GTX1050Ti and GTX1050 cards.

"Kingston has developed long-term relationships with the leading DRAM manufacturers. Our DRAM chips are purchased directly from these manufacturers, which include Micron, SK Hynix, Powerchip, Nanya and others. The components are shipped directly from the manufacturer's facility to Kingston's facility minimizing handling and exposure to damage." Source. Even Kingston themselves admit they dont manufacture their own DRAM chips. Their own brand markings on the chips are common though.

This post has been edited by k!nex: Dec 19 2018, 04:24 AM