Kevin Phair
Extremely poor performance - Steer clear
December 15th 2010
There's no way you could run an OS off this drive. I bought a couple some time ago, ran them in a RAID 0 configuration and found the system to be sluggish at best so they came back out and went into their box. Transfer rates are nowhere near what the specifications would have you believe. In the real world you'd be lucky to get 30MB/s reading off this. Write performance is about half that and this was after trying many of the well-known SSD optimisation tweaks. Windows 7 doesn't even recognise it as an SSD!
I honestly can't think of a saving grace for this drive: It's too slow to run an OS from and too small to consider using as an external drive (you'd be better off getting something like an OCZ USB flash drive with the same performance for significantly less money). It's put me off buying Transcend memory products.
If you're looking for a good SSD, first read up on the reviews and look at some legitimate benchmarks as the specs that Transcend provide for this drive are just downright dishonest.
Review of 32GB Transcend 2.5" SATA Internal SSD Solid State Disk (MLC Flash)