Understand that the A400 is mainly a cheap alternative to upgrade old computers. You should not dump any more money on a pc that is more than 3 years old. So A400 250 is the perfect choice for less than RM160 these days. You can crucify the A400 for its performance, but it is very very high on value if you use it to upgrade your old pc. Nothing can touch it on that. With 3 years warranty, you should expect to get at least that amount of extended use time for your old pc until you upgrade or some problem comes up that needs a change.

If you are gaming, surely it is stupid to be cheap out & upgrade your few thousand buck rig with A400 that will affect your pc overall performance right?

I have two 5 year old Core i3 laptops that uses A400 250GB. And they are giving me good service so far for nearly 10 months now. Spend near RM400 on 2 units, and i cannot even buy a single Samsung 250GB SSD with that kind of money at that time.

So if anyone wanna bash the A400, go ahead. The problem is not about its speed or perceived reliability, but more on the overall value to keep your computer not ending up as E-waste.

If you run it though benchmark, yes there are difference. But for general use without attaching numbers, it is really much much better than HDD. But for the thousands of buyers of A400 would they care if it was fast? The ones that made noise are the cheapskates gamers that bought it without studying the pros and cons.