Transcend 512GB MTS430S M.2 SATA III 2242 SSD, Dram Cache, B+M Key

I've been using this in an Asus CN62 Chromebox running Windows 10. This is one of the few M.2 2242 SATA SSDs available (most are the superior NVMe type) and none of the big brands (Samsung, Crucial, etc) make them. So far (3 months in) it's been working very well, with typical fast SSD performance, although the machine isn't doing anything too taxing. If you need a SATA M.2 42mm drive, this is a great choice, from a reputable brand. Update: This has been running for over a year and a half now. It is in a low usage machine but is on 24/7. The drive was running very hot (60-70 C), but this is within the manufacturers limits (75 C) and it has had no ill effects yet. I purchased a small metal heatsink on ebay a few months ago, and with this fitted it's running at 50-58 C. Update (2023): This has just been semi-retired as I've replaced the system it was in with a newer one. The drive has been running at 50-70C for 4 years and has 37,615 hours of uptime. Crystal disk info reports health at 98% due to 5.3 TB reads and 7.6 TB writes (3.8 TB NAND writes) with all erase/error counts at 100% health. Would definitely buy Transcend again, this has outlasted some Crucials and Samsungs for me!

High performance drive. I've had this installed for three months and it is going strong. It reads photos fast when scrolling through file explorer (extra large thumbnails) and when using the image viewer it loads incredibly well. My laptop boots in seconds. It's an Acer (c720-2844 4gb) Chromebook conversion, running win 10. Now I have a lightweight powerhouse with big battery life!

Just what I needed, as described and works well. I had a laptop with a failed SSD, so needed to replace it and ultimately chose this ssd for it's affordability while still being a recognised, good brand. The drive hasn't disappointed, with the laptop working once again thanks to this. Great ssd.

straight replacement, does exactly what it should.

Pricey for what it is but still the cheapest compared to ebay, works great not much else to say.

Probably one of the more respectable manufacturers in this size range. Used in HP 820 g1. As many have mentioned - it runs quite hot, especially when under full load. Out of the box it went as high as 86C during a 32gb crystal disk mark test, and was idling around 54C, which was quite unacceptable to me. As a result I applied this SSD with a thermal silicone pad and a copper heatsink. In the consecutive tests temperatures consistently stayed below 63C under full load and 40C at idle. The item arrived well packaged, and it delivers close to promised speeds. Installation was near effortless. It definitely runs hot, hence cooling solution is needed for longevity of the drive itself and the machine it is used in, but that's to be expected given the m.2 factor and 2242 size.

This is what I expected. The quality is excellent, delivery is on time and good.

Easily installed and picked up by NUC running proxmox.

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Nor working. Unable to format. No product support. Waste of money

I got this for my Hackintosh (HP Elitebook 840 G2). The Hack already had a Crucial SSD (500GB) that I was using for the boot drive, which is fast and works well, but I was using less than half of the drive's capacity. I added the Transcend and cloned my Mac partition to it using SuperDuper!, and then manually copied the EFI partition over. I pulled the SSD and booted up to see if it would work. Worked on the first try. I reinstalled the SSD, then added 2 more partitions to the SSD, one which will eventually contain a copy of my iTunes library, and the other which will be used for auxiliary storage. I now back up the Transcend to the SSD, which is very convenient, plus I can boot up from the SSD if anything happens to the Transcend. The Transcend boots about as fast as the SSD does. I thought it would have booted a lot faster, but that may be because I need to reconfigure something. It's still WAY faster than even a 7200 RPM traditional hard drive. The most difficult part of the process was getting the computer to recognize the Transcend drive. While I was researching what type of M2 drive to get, I found a very old post on the HP web site that explained how to do it. Can't remember the exact details, but it involved going into the BIOS and enabling RAID (go figure...), rebooting and getting a BSOD, rebooting into the BIOS and putting things back they were before the the RAID thing, and then letting the system come up normally. THEN the computer could see the drive. In my research I saw some posts about people not being able to use an M2 in this computer as a Windows boot drive. I don't use Windows, so I can't speak to that subject. Recommended.

2242のM.2タイプのSSDスロット用の製品は、トラセンド一択だと思う。 価格comその他で検索すると、他にまったくない訳ではないが、聞いたこともない メーカーの商品を使うのは論外なので。 この商品は廉価版の425と違って、キャッシュが搭載されているため、少々値段は 高くなるが、こちらを選択した。 そもそも425であっても容量当たりのコスパは非常に悪いので、430との価格差は キャッシュによる速度向上、寿命の延命効果を考えると元は取れると思う。 （実際大差ないかもしれないが、精神安定剤として） 実測度はシーケンシャルリードで約360～370ｍｂ/s程度であり、SATA 6ｇ接続 用としては標準的だと思う。 発熱が酷いとのレビューが多いので心配したが、1月なので最高40度未満にしか ならない。これに、気休めでヒートシンクを付ければ夏場も凌げること期待したい。 約10年前に購入した、トラセンドの256GBの製品はMLCであったこともあるのか、 夏場に酷使してもまったく問題なかった。TLCである本製品はどうなのか、試して 問題があれば、その際またレビューしたいと思う。

Lo instale en un Barebone HP Thin Client t520 Flexible y funciono perfecto, la instalación fue en un Linux LOC-OS y se reconoció el M.2 instantáneamente; velocidad de inicio de sistema en menos de 10 segundos; sistema potenciado por la velocidad de escritura. Pros: - Se reconoce instantáneamente en equipos compatibles ya sea en Windows como en Linux, buena velocidad de lectura y escritura. - Perfecto para revivir equipos viejos o con limitaciones de hardware. - Marca con prestigio con precio asequible Contras: - De momento no me e encontrado con alguno.