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£156.66 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.

HP
HP - SSD - 1 TB - internal - M.2 2280 - PCIe 4.0 x4

Lenovo
Lenovo - SSD - encrypted - 2 TB - internal - M.2 2280 - PCIe 4.0 (NVMe) - TCG Opal Encryption 2.0 - for ThinkPad L14 Gen 6, L16 Gen 2, P16s Gen 4, T14 Gen 6, T16 Gen 4, ThinkStation P3 Gen 2

Lenovo
Lenovo - SSD - Read Intensive - 3.84 TB - hot-swap - 2.5" (in 3.5" carrier) - SATA 6Gb/s

Kingston
Kingston NV3 - SSD - 4 TB - internal - M.2 2280 - PCIe 4.0 x4 (NVMe)