Transcend 256GB SATA III 6Gb/s MTS400 42 mm M.2 SSD Solid St... - 2024 report by Whydis
Transcend 256GB SATA III 6Gb/s MTS400 42 mm M.2 SSD Solid State Drive (TS256GMTS400)
Capacity:256 GB
SATA III Solid State Disk from Transcend. This MTS400 M.2 NGFF SSD is suitable for many ultrabooks, tablets and other compact devices. Interface speed up to 6Gbps, supports read speed up to 560MB/sec and write speed up to 320MB/sec....
Nice drive, but had to return because I ordered M.2 instead of M... Poor me, but price and drive are nice.
have purchased several of these for cheap upgrades to some ultra books.they have held up, have not lost a single one.the price is great, compared to more expensive drives.also performance is good.
Great price, fast shipping, and now I have a very powerful, very fast, lightweight device for next to nothing
good price go steal.
Throwing this into a chromebook (i3 acer c720) made it a very competitive price to performance laptop.
Perfect upgrade for my Chromebox to partition for Linux using Crouton.
have purchased several of these for cheap upgrades to some ultra books.they have held up, have not lost a single one.the price is great, compared to more expensive drives.also performance is good.
Highly recommend this drive if you can use a M.2 upgrade, well worth it
I put it in an Asus Chromebox MU-75 as an upgrade to the stock 16GB drive and it works just fine.
Great upgrade for 1st Gen Lenovo X1 Carbon when used in combination with an appropriate 20+6 adapter card.
The Transcend MTS400 256GB is not a blazing fast M.2 SSD, especially with smaller files, nor is it the most durable given it is MLC structure
I am using Linux kernel 3.13.0-37 AMD64 which supports this Transcend SSD immediately
Writing times is not as fast (around 150 mb/s) , but once you install your apps and OS you will be most of the time reading and not writing onto it.
I'm writing this after only a day with the drive installed in my Acer C720 which running Linux, so far it works, at least after disabling ALPM.I actually had the MyDigitalSSD SC2 drive which failed miserably after a little more than a month of use, and cost me in data loss (I just binned it and didn't get an RMA due to reading about other failing MyDigitalSSD drives).So my only wish is that the drive won't fail a few months from now, gonna update this later if the Transcend will continue to work correctly (or if it will fail).Update: Almost two months of daily use and the drive still works great.
This Transcend SSD works right out of the box with GNU/Linux so long as you are using a modern Linux kernel
NGFF 256.00 GB solid state disk as a data drive and it works perfectly
It seems to me that somehow the controller gets it into an inconsistent state during a power shutdown
" 64 bit GNU/Linux on my Crucial M550 SATA-III 6 GB/s 1.0 TB solid state
I modified my PC hardware components by adding a Crucial Ballistix Sport PC3L-12800 1,600 MHz 16.00 GB DDR3 SO-DIMM RAM and a Crucial M550 SATA-III 6 GB/s 1.0 TB solid state disk
G M.2 NGFF M2 SSD Solid State Drive (128GB), which is what I'm going to buy when I return this drive.
Writing times is not as fast (around 150 mb/s) , but once you install your apps and OS you will be most of the time reading and not writing onto it.
I lost almost software installed on C drive
To be fair, you'll typically only be hindered when installing software or updates.
Once it's installed, everything looks good, but after couple of days, a BSOD occurs with error code 0x000000F4
I would recommend you perform a clean install rather than try and copy your existing OS installation as that makes for the best performance and stability
Frequent crashes on t450s. 2102: detection error, or I/O error
The master boot record will be intact, with the additional bonus that your new M.2 SSD will also be accessible as a data drive in your old OS
I/O errors in linux and crashes on the chromebook even without any other linux installed.
Works perfectly with fast boot times and transfer speeds
So far so good, very easy to install, just make sure you turn off Secure boot and, when installing Windows to it, remove the other hard drive until after installation
Writing times is not as fast (around 150 mb/s) , but once you install your apps and OS you will be most of the time reading and not writing onto it.
Writing times is not as fast (around 150 mb/s) , but once you install your apps and OS you will be most of the time reading and not writing onto it.
It is having no heat issues at all, and is the same temperature as the wireless card in the slot fairly close to it, which is basically not much hotter than ambient temperature
Everything works as it should and I am happy
some over heating issue running on a t440 with OS install on the SSD, would freeze every so often