Over the last couple of years or so we've looked at many Solid State Drives that feature various technologies in the attempt to boost speed and performance. Some have been successful, some have not.

Very affordable; Solid accessory package with cloning software; Very fast Read speeds; Well suited for OS drive

Sequential Write speeds only satisfactory; Performance increases as capacity increases

Things were going pretty well in developing our final opinion of the Transcend SSD370 256GB SSD until it returned the absolute highest score ever for a notebook factor SSD. This surprised us so much that we actually ran the test several times, and then again after the drive had been in use for a few...

Solid-State Drives were expensive when they were first introduced to the consumer market. Back in 2008 Legit Reviews spent nearly $3,600 to purchase five Intel X25-E 32GB SSD's for the server that was running the site.

What was once ultra-expensive and rare quickly becomes cheap and common in the personal computer market. Storage is possibly the best example of this. Indeed, the storage market has changed quite a bit in the 17 years I have been a computer enthusiast.

It seems like no matter what you are purchasing there are always many various levels of quality, prices, and performance. I know I personally get stuck desiring the top of the line everything and my spouse gets a little upset about this since we end up spending extra money at times.

Good Mixed File Performance; No Loss In Performance With Incompressible Data; Desktop Mounting Kit Included; Minimal Performance Drop Off as Drive Fills; Transcend Toolbox Software; Good Performance at Higher Queue Depths; Real World Performance is Excellent; 7mm Form Factor; 3-year warranty

Warranty and Endurance Lower Than Some Competitors; Performance Slightly Lower Than SSDs In Same Price Range

Ordered this drive to replace my current SSD. Shipping was fast as always and product was well packaged and just as ordered. No problems setting up and using the drive. Drive is very quiet and fast as expected. Price was very reasonable.

Simply installing this drive cut my boot time by 75%

We got the first glimpse of Transcend's SSD370 at Computex last year and now the drive has been in retail for quite some time. The interesting bit about the drive is its custom Transcend firmware, which is accompanied by a relabeled Silicon Motion SM2246EN controller (Transcend calls it TS6500).

Apparently is better than the MX100 and Ultra II in terms of real-world performance; recommended by Anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8792/transcend-ssd370-128gb-256gb-512gb-review/

It's been ten years since last testing any Transcend products, back in the days of DDR2 memory and 1GB flash drives . However, that changed when recently picking up a Transcend SSD370 256GB solid-state drive.