Transcend 512GB M.2 2242 SATA III SSD with Dram Cache, Up to 560MB/s, Compatible w/Ultrabook/Laptop/PC/Desktop, 3D TLC NAND Flash Internal Solid State Drive, LDPC Error Correction, SLC Cache, B+M Key

Purchased for use in a MiniPC. This is 2242 size so 22mm wide and 42mm long. Make sure you confirm slot or "key" type. Fit my system perfectly. It was recognized instantly and is plenty fast. No issues so far, but can't speak to longevity. Definite improvement from stock. (Asus CN60 Windows 10 conversion)

Saved an old Lenovo laptop from being a brick.

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.

I bought the 128gb version to replace the horrendous 16gb ssd that has always come with most Chromebooks, and WOW it is so refreshing!!Came in exactly as expected, and now there is sufficient capacity for a modern OS, so I can say goodbye to the days of constantly clearing my cache and avoiding large programs in an already small OS like Arch...Sequential read and write speeds are very close to advertised speeds, but obviously randoms are going to be slightly worseYes, it can run quite hot like most others say but that should be normal for an SSD being crammed into such a small laptop with little to no airflow.In terms of reliability, it seems quite promising as a result of the DRAM cache that the SSD has, but for now, I'll just have to wait and see how this thing goes on

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.

Used one to upgrade an old Acer C702P Chromebook. The 2242 M.2 SATA SSD physical format is not so common these days, so this was the best option I could find. Works great, and although I have not objectively tested R/W speeds, it seems fast. Anyway, the old Chromebook is just going to be the controller for a home automation system, and this is more than enough. At the moment I have the latest LMDE Mint OS installed, and it "feels" as quick as my desktop that has much more in resources. Good choice; so, if you are thinking of updating (e.g., adding a sufficiently large SSD for software and files) and old Chromebook or similar, then this is a good option. The price is higher than most other SSD brands of the same size but is peace of mind for what I am doing. Don't think it is China crap that will die in a few months.

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.

Works great in a netgate 5100. Drive was recognized right away in the bios, and no problems. Chose this over the Kingston.