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£157.60 inc. VAT
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The Kingston KC600 512GB SATA mSATA is a solid “just works” upgrade if you’ve got a compatible old-ish system that takes mSATA and you want noticeably better responsiveness without paying enterprise money. In real day-to-day use—boot times, app launches, general snappiness—it’ll feel like a proper upgrade over a typical HDD, and Kingston’s track record for reliability makes it an easy recommendation when you’re trying to improve a fleet or a small office PC budget.
At £131.22 ex-VAT, the only real question is value versus what else is available for your specific machine. If you can move to a standard 2.5" SATA SSD or (even better) a PCIe/NVMe option in that hardware, those tend to outperform for not much more in the current market. But if you’re genuinely constrained to mSATA and SATA speeds, the KC600 is a sensible pick—particularly for business users who care about dependability over benchmark bragging, and for resellers/firms doing cost-controlled refreshes where reliability matters more than cutting-edge performance. If your device supports NVMe or 2.5" SATA, I’d personally avoid this and steer to the faster platform instead.

Lenovo
Intel P4610 Mainstream - SSD - 1.6 TB - hot-swap - 2.5" - U.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 (NVMe) - for ThinkAgile VX3320 Appliance, ThinkSystem SR850 V2, SR860 V2

HP
HP Z Turbo Drive Dual Pro - SSD - 4 TB - internal - M.2 2280 - PCIe 4.0 x4 - for Workstation Z2 G9 (SFF, tower), Z6 G5, Z8 G5

HP
HP - SSD - 512 GB - internal - M.2 - PCIe 4.0 x4 - for Workstation Z2 G8, Z2 G9 (SFF, tower)

Samsung
Samsung 990 EVO Plus MZ-V9S1T0 - SSD - encrypted - 1 TB - internal - M.2 2280 - PCIe 5.0 x2 (NVMe) - 256-bit AES - TCG Opal Encryption 2.0