Transcend 64GB SATA III 6Gb/s SSD370S 2.5” Solid State Drive

So far, this SSD has worked pretty well for me, even though it's no Evo Samsung 850. It was a fair amount cheaper though, had a little bit more extra storage than I needed for the task I required it for, and in my online research and looking around, it seemed to be decent enough and fast enough to fit my needs.Around 40 some bucks is what I recall paying for this, and it's well worth it when i only needed a little more than half the storage space of this drive in the first place in an SSD form for my OS partition. It's sped up my boot time form over a full minute, to a little over a half a minute as well, which is wonderful. I've seen, however, that other people can get up to 10-20 second boot speeds with a good SSD, but realized that it wasn't the fault of this SSD, moreso the fault of the type of motherboard I am currently using.Installation wasn't too difficult, if you know how to install any type of internal PC part. Even came with the parts required to attach it to a 3.5 HDD bay securely, which is nice, but did not include a spare SATA cable. However, that was fine for me, since I had a spare SATA III laying around.So far I haven't had any problems, but I've only had it for about 2 months at most at this point, and not under heavy usage. (Like I said, it's used for my OS, and a few of my more heftier games and apps at this point). Hopefully though, it will last a while.

Absolutely love it. I have an Acer Aspire V5 that I bought with 500gb of HDD. It wasn't horrendously slow, but I still would have time to go wash my hands or pet my dog for a bit while I turned on my computer. And if I accidentally clicked to open photoshop or itunes? The annoying 45 second wait just to CLOSE the application was getting very annoying.I bought this hoping it would speed up my start-up times and application running and boy does it! Power button to password screen in about 5 seconds. Itunes and photoshop open in about 5 seconds the FIRST time. Once you opened it once, you can close it immediately and if you ever open it again during the time your computer is on, both applications open in a single second. I dont have all the pro-testing skills that everyone else has, but I did do some timing. I extracted 2GB of 4k GoPro footage on my old harddrive which took about 40 minutes. On this, it took about 15. I'd say thats a great improvement. It's also very QUIET! But of course....there are no moving parts.Finally, the file transferring of my old harddrive to this one was fairly simple. I did what everyone else did and had to buy the adapter cable, and then download the software and transfer it. I didnt use the Transcend software, I used Macrium like other people said to, and it was a breeze. No files were lost. Everything copied perfectly. I've had this for about 7 months now and it hasnt lost a beat. Piece of advice to anyone doing this though, DO NOT THROW AWAY YOUR OLD HARD DRIVE. I didn't throw mine away, but I know some people who transferred everything, used a new SSD (not this one in particular), and then tossed their old one. Then their new SSD had a problem, and they got screwed. Always keep your old one just in case. This has been working perfectly for me so I never plan on going back, but I will always keep my old harddrive because you just never know.

This SSD is an incredible value for maintaining aging IT equipment. As mechanical hard drives age, they are notorious for failure. Many of the machines we use are nothing much more than terminals that don't require much space at all. Enter the Transcend 32GB MLC SSD.For $24.99, you get a high quality SSD from a well known brand that comes with two sets of installation screws and a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter caddy. This allows for the option to install in a desktop is needed, and would be at least $5 if purchased seperately; not usually a big deal, but impressive to be included at the current price point.The usual pros to an SSD are seen with this drive. Faster boot times, less heat, less weight, and better battery life for most machines. I wouldn't put this drive up against top performers in it's class and expect it to compete, but that's not the target market for this model.The only complaint that might come forth for some is the 3 year warranty. Compared to other SSDs from companies like Samsung that carry 5 or even 10 years warranty this seems short, but in this day and time you're lucky to even get 3 years on a mechanical hard drive which is much more likely to fail. The majority of equipment I use these in will be completely obsolete in 3 years anyway, and the drive will likely live much longer than that. At the price point there isn't really anything to compare it to in the mechanical or solid state drive market, you might as well buy one or three to keep on hand as I have.