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.

Easy installation with no problems, works well. Faster than hdssd far as I can tell.

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.

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.