Has anyone tried out Transcend's SSD220S?

[stillagamer]

In my country, Transcend's SSD220S is currently being sold for an extremely low price. A Crucial MX500 with a similar capacity costs 30% more, and anything by Samsung is even more expensive. Has anyone tried the SSD220S? Is it really that much worse than the "best" SSDs?

[upcoast]

It's a lot faster than an hdd but it's at the bottom of the budget line of ssds.

I have a 240GB one, it works but I don't know if I'd buy another, I have a couple budget ADATA going that seem better than Transcend.

[stillagamer]

Originally posted by upcoast:

It's a lot faster than an hdd but it's at the bottom of the budget line of ssds.

I have a 240GB one, it works but I don't know if I'd buy another, I have a couple budget ADATA going that seem better than Transcend.

Is is true that write times of files larger than a few gigabytes are worse than a new HDD's, as some reviews seem to indicate?

[stillagamer]

MX500 250GB vs Transcend SSD220S 480GB

Right now, Transcend SSD220S 480GB costs about 30$ more than MX500 250GB in my country. Is it worth to spend $30 more for twice as much space, even though the sustained write performance of the Transcend is far worse, regardless of the number of files? The link below shows what I'm talking about:

https://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/simon-crisp/transcend-ssd220s-480gb-review/8/

[Jinn-Gon Qui]

Another impotant factor is the brand itself and how reliable they are. I personally don't know Transcend, which is why Crucial would be the wiser choice, in my opinion. Despite having less storage, you get your reliability.

[xSOSxHawkens]

Transcend is an OK second rate brand name in flash/ram, so you are OK there.

Gaming is not nearly as demanding on an SSD as content creation.

On the SATA bus es[pecially.

Go for the near double cappactity, be happy.

[just.kamk /idle]

It's worth it to get a ~500GB SSD, but Transcend isn't necessarily the best bang for the money (quality wise).

At least in europe they're as pricy as Crucial or even Samsung drives, so i'd pick the latter.

[mtono]

if u don't need top speed and it is for private use, you can buy any brand(once i saw a brand from china itself....these things are no good). you can go to a shop, grab the thing u need, because no one can say when a ssd can get broke. i have a cheap ocz 100 256 gb. no problem. i would go for a cheaper one for private use. there are just trnasistors inside, that work or not. thats it too with more expensive ssd's. i don't care if my pc is one second earlier booted. imo.

[stillagamer]

Originally posted by xSOSxHawkens:

Transcend is an OK second rate brand name in flash/ram, so you are OK there.

Gaming is not nearly as demanding on an SSD as content creation.

On the SATA bus es[pecially.

Go for the near double cappactity, be happy.

Physically it's exactly double. They just don't let you use all of the space because SSDs become exponentially slower when they are near full.

[tacoshy]

Originally posted by stillagamer:

Originally posted by xSOSxHawkens:

Transcend is an OK second rate brand name in flash/ram, so you are OK there.

Gaming is not nearly as demanding on an SSD as content creation.

On the SATA bus es[pecially.

Go for the near double cappactity, be happy.

Physically it's exactly double. They just don't let you use all of the space because SSDs become exponentially slower when they are near full.

Thats BS... SSD dont work like HDD's that have problems being completly full. Also you dont add modules that have exactly the double size like with other flash drives. The modules range by simply how many and which kind of chips you solder on the SSD.