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About Kingston SSD Manager
Kingston SSD Manager is the drive maker's own companion tool for its solid state drives. It reports the health of an installed Kingston SSD, installs firmware updates published by Kingston and can securely erase a drive before it is reused or disposed of.
It is distributed from Kingston's technical support pages. It suits owners of Kingston SSDs who want to keep firmware current and check drive condition without a third-party tool.
Strengths
- Official firmware updates for Kingston SSDs
- Drive health monitoring
- Secure erase built in
Limitations
- Works only with Kingston drives
- Closed source
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree download from Kingston for owners of its SSDs.
- License
- Proprietary (Proprietary)
- Developer
- Kingston Technology
- Platforms
- Windows
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Owners of Kingston SSDs who need firmware updates and health checks
- Categories
- Disk tools, System monitoring
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Kingston SSD Manager
Compare allSoftware that can replace Kingston SSD Manager for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
CrystalDiskInfo
Reads the health data your drives already record and tells you plainly whether one is dying.
CrystalDiskInfo is MIT-licensed and reports health for drives of any brand with tray alerts, but offers no Kingston firmware updates or secure erase.
smartmontools
Reads the SMART health data built into disks and runs self-tests, giving advance warning before a drive fails.
smartmontools is open source for Windows, macOS and Linux and monitors SMART health on a schedule, but it is command-line only and lacks firmware updates.
GSmartControl
A graphical interface for smartctl that shows the health of hard drives and SSDs.
GSmartControl shows SMART health and runs self-tests in a graphical window on Windows and Linux, relying on smartmontools and without Kingston firmware updates.
HDDScan
A free Windows utility for testing hard drives and SSDs, reading SMART data and running surface tests.
HDDScan is a free Windows tool that reads SMART data and runs surface tests on many drive brands, without official firmware updates or secure erase.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
Samsung Magician
Samsung's management app for its consumer SSDs, covering firmware updates, health checks, benchmarks and secure erase.
Crucial Storage Executive
Crucial's utility for checking SSD health, updating drive firmware and tuning performance on Crucial SSDs.
SeaTools
Seagate's free diagnostic tool for checking the health of hard drives and SSDs.
Parted Magic
A bootable disk utility for partitioning, cloning, rescuing, benchmarking and securely erasing drives from a USB stick.
nvme-cli
A Linux command-line tool for managing, inspecting and formatting NVMe solid-state drives.
