Transcend 128GB MTS430S M.2 SATA III 2242 SSD, Dram Cache, B+M Key

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.

Bought this for my Thinkpad x240 to be installed into the spare M.2 slot next to the RAM slots. All seemed to go well. A clean install of Windows 10 went without incident and the machine ran beautifully. A few days later, the machine started to display error messages on boot up, namely, that the ssd was missing. Knowing that this was potentially a driver issues, I rolled back to the standard windows driver (instead of Lenovo's) and everything has been fine since. Boot up times and general use is much faster. The only negative is that this drive runs very hot. With an ambient temperature of about 25c, the drive was reporting an operating temperature of 62. Under heavy load, for example, when installing software, running virus scans, the temperature can shoot up to 76c. I'm going to try and fit some heatsinks to reduce the temperature but this might not be possible given the lack of clearance between the top of the ssd and the thinkpad case. Thank goodness for the 5-year warranty.

I bought this as an upgrade to my Chuwi Lapbook 14.1 laptop. The Lapbook 14.1 only comes with a built in flash based SanDisk 64GB drive but it has an m.2 expansion port that only supports SATA based SSDs. No NVME PCIE support here! Trying to find high quality, name brand SATA SSDs in this m.2 form factor is becoming hard because it's pretty much a dead standard. Nearly all new systems for many years now will accept m.2 NVME PCIE based drives and you definitely would want to use one of those if your system supports them rather than this drive. If you know this is the only/best format of drive your system can support, this is one of the best, most affordable options available at this time from my research. Take a look at my screenshot showing CrystalDiskMark 8.0.1 scores comparing this new Transcend MTS430S SSD in comparison to my systems built in storage. Note - these results are from a clean install of Windows 10 Home with this Transcend SSD being used for the main OS disk. If you're in need of a drive in this form factor and type I think this is one of the best available options at this time, January, 2021! Also take note that I don't know how the reliability/longevity of this drive will be since I've only had it a couple of weeks but I expect it to be great and the packaging states that it has a 5 year warranty.

I installed this in a mini-computer that, admittedly, does not have adequate cooling. After partitioning and formatting, the drive temperature was 67C at idle. Idle meaning it was in the PC and ready for use but not being read from or written to. When in active use, it easily exceeds 70C. The only way I can use this drive and keep the temps below 70C is to leave the cover off the mini-computer. Other than this, the drive works as expected, reads and writes fast, and is a good value for the money. However, be advised that whatever you use it in will need really good cooling and airflow.

A few years ago I bought two Dell Inspiron i3050 Micro computers to set up as streaming devices. Out of the box they were pretty limited with just 2gb of ram and 32gb of storage. With Windows 8.1 installed, you just didn't have a lot of room for anything else, much less updates... so every so often, Windows would try to do some major updates but could not due to the incredibly limited storage capacity of 32gb. So to upgrade these little guys to Win10 and add some functionality, I needed a bigger drive and that's where the Transcend 256GB drive comes in. Very easy to install... a fast little drive and has a lot more storage than I started off with, but in 2019, 256gb seems small. This drive though meets and exceeds the needs of what I am doing with those little Dells. I ordered 2 and the first one worked perfect... the second one how ever never could be recognized in Bios and therefor Windows could not be reinstalled. Sent it back and quickly got a replacement that worked perfectly the first time.

Bought this for my old laptop boot drive. Now running Linux and very fast. Easily reduced boot up by half. Excellent choice for upgrading old machines.

The SSD in my Teclast F7 laptop died, barely over a year in use I might add. So here I am, looking for replacement. Found a great deal in this Transcend 256GB M.2 SSD. Almost didn't pay attention to the size (length) of these type of drives, good thing I checked the old one and also read up on the subject, then found out I needed a 42mm. Installation was a snap, I unscrewed the bottom of my laptop, took the old one out, pop in the new one. Then, was able to begin my new install of Win 10 Pro. Whole process was easy peasy, the drive worked fast and smooth. So far so good, no issues yet. Plug, I gained much more storage than my old SSD. Highly recommended.

Roll back the "Intel SATA Controller AHCI Driver" on Device Manager if you installed ALL updates through Lenovo Vantage. 1) Press "Windows" + "X" 2) Select "Device Manager" 3) Expand "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" 4) Click on probably some "Intel SATA Controller AHCI Driver". You want this to read "Standard SATA AHCI Controller" 5) Right click on driver and click on Preferences 6) Go to "Driver" tab 7) Click on "Roll Back Driver" 8) Restart machine 9) Check that Device Manager now reads "Standard SATA AHCI Controller" on "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" Done! Now restarting should stop forgetting the M.2 SATA SSD on restart! Lenovo Vantage suggested to update to "Intel SATA Controller AHCI Driver". Ignore it or roll back driver since installing it makes the M.2 SATA SSD disappear on restart unless shutting down the machine and powering it on again. The default Windows SATA AHCI controller driver works with no update required! You WANT this to read "Standard SATA AHCI Controller". I own a Thinkpad S3 Yoga 14 (20DM) and wanted this SSD as my boot drive. I spent a whole week wrestling with this issue and almost gave up but taking a longer route and restarting after installing one update at a time worked for me. Using a Windows 10 Installation Media USB to do a clean install, this is what I did (for good measure): 01) Shut down and open back plate 02) Unplug main battery from motherboard 03) Unplug any other hard drive/SSD. You only want the M.2 SATA SSD installed if this will be your boot drive. 04) Unplug CMOS battery from motherboard 05) Press and hold power button for 10 seconds 06) Plug in CMOS battery and main battery to motherboard 07) Closed back plate 08) Plug in Windows 10 Installation Media USB (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10) 09) Boot to BIOS (check method for your specific model. For Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 14 press ENTER then F12 to boot to temporary media USB) 10) Click on "Install Now" 11) Click on "Custom: Intall Windows only (advanced)" 12) On "Where do you want to install Windows?", select and delete all partitions on M.2 SATA SSD 13) Finish installing Windows 10 on M.2 SATA SSD. 14) Restart twice for good measure. M.2 SATA SSD should not be disappearing now. 15) On Windows 10, search for "Check for Updates" and install all updates. 16) Go to Microsoft Store and download "Lenovo Vantage" 17) Check for updates 18) IGNORE "Intel SATA Controller AHCI Driver" update. 19) Install all other updates. If you accidentally installed "Intel SATA Controller AHCI Driver" again, use my first list to roll back to "Standard SATA AHCI Controller". Now you may turn off your machine, unplug USB, and reinstall HDDs/SSDs.

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!

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

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.