Transcend 256GB M.2 2280 SSD, Up to 1,600 MB/s, Compatible w/Ultrabook Laptop PC Desktop, PCIe NVMe Gen3x4 SSD, 3D TLC NAND Flash Internal Solid State Drive, LDPC Error Correction ECC, SLC Cache

I purchased this drive to use with a Raspberry Pi 4 (4 GB RAM) and paired it with an SSK USB 3 NVMe case+interface. Now, obviously the USB 3 interface slows things down compared to being able to install this directly into a computer with an NVMe interface, but the RPi doesn't have that option.I installed a fresh version of Raspberry Pi OS to the drive and was able to tweak the Pi to boot off of it instead of the default microSD card. And hey, it works really well! Writes and reads are much faster, and programs load much more quickly off the SSD than the microSD card. Furthermore, it's safe to say that read/writes wear will be much better on this SSD than a card, as well.

I made this little SSD my primary boot drive for Windows, and now my computer boots in 5-8 seconds! A remarkable improvement from the minutes spent booting from my previous top tier hard drive disk. And that's with a heavy load of startup applications, without fast-boot enabled. Even when compared to other SSDs (non-NVMe) instead of obviously slow HDDs, the difference in speed is huge. Then there is the very helpful software available for this SSD that lets you track its health. Just icing on the cake!Now, although it does not have the best of the best speeds or storage capacity in the NVMe SSD category, it is still top tier (for the classes of SSDs) and a great value SSD.

Revived my old acer laptop that I thought was never going to function again. Easy to install.

My first time building with an M.2 of any kind. I didn't push it into the socket far enough for it to start wanting to 'spring up'. So it wasn't recognized at first. I kept my head and unplugged and re-plugged everything that I was able to easily get too. When I got to the NVMe and I pushed it in a bit further ... I could tell I had found the problem. No issues of any kind so far. Has been trouble free.

Considering what I paid for it, it's a good upgrade from my other budget SATA SSD though at the speeds of solid state drives now, performance difference becomes harder to tell in day-to-day usage.Update: Almost one year to the day, it's still operating as my main OS drive. Write speeds for me aren't as great as I'd like but for purpose and price, this was cheaper than my last SATA SSD with improved read 3x read speeds and 100mb/s faster write speeds so well worth the price. This combined with a Ryzen CPU upgrade made my system so snappy for very little price.Update 2: Almost two years running as my main OS drive. I recently installed Windows 11, so far so good. This drive was meant as a stop-gap solution until I had more money to buy a more expensive NVME but it's still fast enough for me, no complaints. I use a faster Samsung NVME as my games drive anyway.Update 3, March 16 2022: New motherboard, the drive is still hanging in there with 15,600 hours and counting. In this setup I'm using x4 speeds but doesn't seem to make any difference for me, still roughly the same performance. See pic #2.Update 4, Jan 2024: Still going. Although it's now on my backup OS because I needed more space.

Seems to work well. Wasn't immediately identified by my PC but disk management took care of that. I picked the cheapest one as I was really looking for storage for my OS only on this. My one major complaint is it didn't come with the screws to secure it to the board. I know boards can vary, but how much cost would there be to included a few generic screws. The product didn't really advertise that you would need to purchase this separately as well, should be at the top. Without a post suppory and appropriate screws it sits at a weird angle so i dropped sheerness and thickness down because of it. I dropped the value rating because i think these parts should be included. Id say functionaly its probably a 5 star product as its cheap and works, but deserves 4 stars for the lack of up front description of needing tonorder additional parts.

Yeah it's small capacity. No, it's not gen 4. But seriously, $30!!!! Got my new build going temporarily while I wait for processors and GPUs to come into realistic pricing. Tried to skimp by using an old SATA drive. Wasn't going to cut it so I bought this to tide me over. Plenty fast and my current temporary Ryzen 3400G doesn't support Gen 4 anyway.

Great for the price.

Llegó en buenas condiciones, =venía en sobre burbuja= (tardo aproximadamente unos 5 días en la CDMX), lo bueno es el precio, uno de los puntos malos es que no tiene el tornillo, apenas lo instalarle, daré actualización un tiempo después[El m.2 es de 128gb pero en el sistema me detecta 119Gb, no se si estarán usando los otros 9gb en otras cosas o es de menor capacidad, eso me dejó algo decepcionado.]

Die Transcend 256GB PCIe™ Gen3 x4 M.2 SSD 2280 hat mein MacBook Air 2012 in eine neue Leistungsdimension katapultiert! Ich bin absolut begeistert von der Geschwindigkeit und Zuverlässigkeit dieser SSD.Die Installation war überraschend einfach. Der Austausch der alten Festplatte war problemlos, und die SSD passte perfekt in den M.2-Steckplatz meines MacBook Airs. Nach der Installation wurde die SSD sofort erkannt, und die Einrichtung verlief reibungslos.Die Leistung ist beeindruckend. Bootzeiten sind jetzt blitzschnell, und Anwendungen starten in Sekundenschnelle. Ich kann jetzt problemlos mehrere Programme gleichzeitig nutzen, ohne dass mein MacBook Air ins Stocken gerät.Die Kapazität von 256GB ist ausreichend für meine Anwendungen, und die Übertragungsgeschwindigkeiten sind deutlich schneller als bei der alten HDD. Das macht das Arbeiten und das Speichern großer Dateien viel angenehmer und effizienter.Insgesamt bin ich mehr als zufrieden mit der Transcend 256GB PCIe™ Gen3 x4 M.2 SSD 2280. Sie hat meine Erwartungen übertroffen und mein MacBook Air wieder auf Höchstleistung gebracht. Für jeden, der sein älteres MacBook aufrüsten möchte, ist diese SSD die perfekte Wahl!

It's an NVME drive on the cheap - what's more to say? It's good and better than the WD green M.2 sata drive I had installed by 3x. Worth the money. Get it.

Por este precio no lo dudes llevo cerca de un año y sin ningún problema,todo funciona fluido.

Pour un laptop de 8 ans. Utilisé initialement en disk principal. Pensais être limité au max à 128Go par le laptop mais suis finalement passé à un SDD de 250Go.En tout cas, performance incroyable traitements divers et variés pratiquement instantanés maintenant.J'ai gardé le SDD 128Go comme backup.