As more products come to market with three-bit-per-cell NAND, drives like Transcend's SSD370S with MLC become increasingly attractive. Micron, SK hynix and Toshiba all failed to make planar TLC as fast as Samsung's existing V-NAND flash.

The Transcend SSD370S features MLC flash and ships with management software; Performance is mainstream, and when you can find it on sale, it does compete with entry-level products on price

Transcend has failed to aggressively and continuously keep the SSD370 512GB price low enough to compete with other products that deliver better value; Random performance is often lower than on competing products in this class of SSDs

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.

Got that new laptop or desktop and want to start the new year off right with a solid-state drive upgrade Need an SSD that will theoretically outlive every system you will ever own for the duration of your lifetime

A renown name when it comes to Flash storage, Transcend is one of the many brands that offers SSD (Solid-State Drive) solutions.

Transcend SSD370 128GB SSD – The Budget Friendly $69 Economy SSD 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.

If you've made it this far, we have a treat for you. If you skipped straight to the end, though, we're validating your poor choices and short attention span. Either way, we're sure you'll be gratified by the return of our overall performance graph and value scatter plots.

From the performance perspective, the SSD370 is a very competitive value drive. It doesn't top the charts, but it provides a very good balance of consistency and peak performance.

You will not get the "Data Transfer Rate 3,938 MB" per second currently posted on the Amazon product page. You will not even get close the 2100/1100 Max Read/Write "may vary" transfer rate that is currently in the Transcend data sheets.

Was easy to install, I like it but I should had bought the 256Gb but that's only me :) I recommend none the less

Today we have the Transcend SSD370 in a 128GB capacity for a closer look. That's not a terribly flashy name for a drive, but we care less about the marketing and more bang for our buck. How about $70 for this SSD, including a rather impressive accessory package

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