4TB SSDs Worth Buying - Transcend 250

when it comes to ssds people are usually talking about those big Brands like Samsung Western Digital crucial or Kingston but there are so many other brands on the market and then some of those lesser known ones very often make really interesting ssds as well for example these two drives right here the transcend 258 and 250s are currently the cheapest four terabyte Gen4 nvme ssds that use TLC memory that I can buy here in the Netherlands so let's check them out transcend itself isn't exactly a new nor a small brand they've been around since the 80s and they make a lot of different storage products from ssds and SD cards all the way up to system memory and like most brands they don't actually manufacture each component of the SSD so it kind of comes down to what components they decided to buy and then combine the 250h and the 250s are the same drive with only one difference the H model has a heatsink while the s model has a very thin metal layer instead which means that it will nicely fit under motherboard heatsinks and in laptops they use the silicone motion sm-2264 controller which is the latest high-end controller that a silicone Motion makes the memory itself comes from Western Digital and it is their 112 layer bics5 3D nand it is the same memory they use for the sn850x for example which is one of the best ssds I've tested so far they come with two gigabytes of dram cache a 780 terabyte written rating per terabyte of storage which is actually more than the Samsung 990 Pro offers and they come with a five year long warranty so on paper transcend looks really good you can buy these in one two or four terabyte capacities and I have the four terabyte version right here and if you're very curious about how much or actually how little the capacity will impact the performance of an SSD I recently posted a video on that so do check it out anyway I am going to begin with the PC Mark 10 quick Benchmark and this is actually a collection of little tests that replicate all those light things we do with our PCS every single day looking at photos for example opening various documents and so on and this is a great Benchmark for anyone that wants to add some extra storage to their system for these simple little tasks and transcend is off to a very decent start here both drives are close to the crucial P5 plus which is another SSD that offers a lot of performance for a decent price and they are ahead of other value Focus drives like dp3 Plus for example but they're also a little bit behind high-end drives like the KC 3000 and the sn850x and the 990 Pro is kinda in a class of its own but it is also a lot more expensive than other drives the full PC Mark 10 Suite is supposed to replicate a more consistent more intense and more C serious use of your drive and this is a very useful Benchmark for anyone that is looking for a new main drive or for anyone that needs to run some applications that can be very heavy on the SSD like editing videos for example and here they're holding on to that similar position they're a bit ahead of actual budget drives as well as the 980 Pro they are close to the P5 plus but still a little bit behind the top performers and if we look at the latency result we get the same image pretty much now the PC Mark consistency test is not really relevant for most people but it is always very interesting to see how a drive behaves under that extreme multi-hour workload that just stresses the drive to its very limits and if we look at the graph we can see that they are not a top tier option like the 980 Pro but they actually held up pretty well cheaper ssds often completely tank in this situation and you can see this Samsung 9A 80 and the Kingston nv2 dropping below SATA SSD performance and The crucial P3 plus performing barely above that so I would say this score is completely fine and I would be completely comfortable recommending this drive even for a pretty heavy workstation setup gaming is another reason why you might want to buy a large affordable SSD and this 3dmark storage test is actually a combination of benchmarks that include a lot of gaming related tasks like loading games installing games recording games saving games and moving game folders around both drives are now ahead of the P5 plus and really close to the mp600 pro lpx from Corsair and the 990 Pro and they're again ahead of other cheaper drives like the P3 plus if we just look at the gaming results that I personally find most important which is loading times installation times and update times it all looks pretty similar they score around 80 percent of the performance of the fastest drive I've tested so far which is the WD sn850x sequential read and write performance doesn't really represent a proper real life use as well as the PC Mark and the 3D Mark tests but it is always worth checking if a drive meets the speed that they claim in their spec sheet in sequential reads it averages at 6 800 megabytes per second which technically puts them in second place and in line with other top tier Gen 4 drives it is well above Sony's recommended spec for the PS5 so combined with the earlier mentioned performance this drive should be great for your PlayStation 5. sequential rights came in at around 6 200 megabytes per second a few drives are faster but honestly between all those drives at the top the differences are actually irrelevant now high-end ssds usually get very hot and these two are no exception here but you need to really go out of your way for thermals to become an actual problem if you don't give them any airflow at all you can get the version with the heatsink to hit around 85 degrees Celsius after a very long stress test and you really need to stress it for a very long time to reach that and even then a little bit of airflow from your case will be enough to get rid of that heat even the version without a heatsink will generally be completely fine as long as there is a little bit of airflow for example these are the results of the extreme 3D Mark consistency test with and without a heatsink but with a low RPM fan nearby that is a three percent of a difference after hours of non-stop testing so you shouldn't worry about it too much and just buy whichever version fits you best if your motherboard has a heatsink a grab d250s and if your motherboard doesn't have a heatsink or you're buying this for the PlayStation 5 just grab the heatsinked one instead that being said you should always keep an eye out for the price difference because it is never worth paying a lot more for a pre-installed heatsink so if the 250h is a lot more expensive in your region you can just add a third-party heatsink for about ten dollars or ten Euros that will do the job more than fine as always I will leave some recommendations in the description of this video if I look at the prices here in the Netherlands it is actually one of the cheapest four terabyte options the only cheaper four terabyte Gen 4 nvme Drive is the P3 plus but that drive is a qlc drive with consistently weaker performance I would personally spend 30 Euros more for these better performing TLC drives the Kingston KC 3000 costs another 55 Euros and the sn850x and most other four terabyte gen4s's these are over a hundred euros more expensive which I just find hard to justify if I was buying a new four terabyte drive right now with these prices I would actually grab this transcend 250. now if I look at the two terabyte segment it is a little bit harder to make a firm decision it's not too bad if you compare it to the P3 Plus or the nv2 but if you just want a better product the KC 3000 costs the same it is slightly faster and probably has the advantage of a more familiar name as well and the one terabyte Market is even more difficult I would say the price is reasonable but I do think it would be hard to compete in terms of popularity with the other drives on this list like the P5 Plus for example if you're curious about the US pricing unfortunately I simply don't know it yet a transcend is sold in the US a lot of retailers actually including Amazon but I haven't seen a 258 or S listing just yet but at the end of the day it also doesn't really impact the conclusion transcend has shown us that they can make a fast high-end Gen 4 drive that performs really well in just about everything and that they can price price it competitively which is about as positive as any SSD conclusion can ever be so if you're in the market for a new SSD especially the high capacity one and you find these for a very good price they are definitely worth considering this video is brought to you by seasonic and their brand new vertex power supplies these fully modular power supplies are extremely efficient and very quiet due to their fan design and their hybrid fan mode that stops the fans completely under 40 load they come with a variety of connections for any kind of systems you have in mind including the new 12 volt high power cable for the 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Length: 10min 17sec (617 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 07 2023