Additional Information

Monitor and manage various aspects of their Kingston Solid State Drive!

Latest Version Kingston SSD Manager 1.5.4.9
Requirements

Windows 8/Windows 8 64/Windows 10/Windows 10 64/Windows 11

Updated September 27, 2024
Author Kingston Technology Corporation
Category Benchmarking
License Freeware
Language English
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Overview

Kingston SSD Manager is an application that provides users with the ability to monitor and manage various aspects of their Kingston® Solid State Drive. SSD Manager is supported on all operating systems. The Kingston SSD Manager is not compatible with Mac OS or Linux distributions.

With SSD Manager you will be able to:
  • Monitor drive health, status, and disk usage
  • View drive identification data including model name, serial number, firmware version, and other relevant information
  • View and export detailed drive health and status reports
  • Update drive firmware
  • Securely erase data
  • Manage TCG Opal and IEEE 1667
  • Overprovision with Host Protected Area (HPA) (DC400 series only)

The Firmware tab provides the following drive information:

  • Physical device path
  • Volume information
  • Vendor/Model
  • Serial number
  • Firmware version

In order to use Kingston SSD Manager you must have:

  • One or more Kingston® SSDs
  • AHCI mode set in BIOS
  • Administrator privileges in Windows®

Installation Process:

  • Click on the Kingston SSDManager (KSM) link to initialize the software download.
  • Locate your download and extract the contents.
  • Run the KSM Setup executable as administrator.
  • Follow the prompts within the Setup Wizard and proceed with the KSM software installation.
  • Once your installation is complete, the system may require a reboot.

There is also a table listing all of the supported health attributes along with their technical details and values:

  • Attribute: The attribute number and description.
  • Normalized: The current normalized value of the attribute.
  • Worst: The lowest recorded normalized value of the attribute.
  • Threshold: The value that the attribute should not exceed under normal operation.
  • Raw: Raw value of the attribute.
  • Flags: The number of flags associated with the attribute.



Previous versions More »

1.5.4.9 September 27, 2024 53.69 MB 1.5.4.6 August 30, 2024 51.12 MB 1.5.4.5 April 05, 2024 50.44 MB 1.5.3.6 January 13, 2024 49.7 MB 1.5.3.4 December 20, 2023 49.7 MB 1.5.3.3 August 16, 2023 49.7 MB