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Transcend 32GB SSD, 2.5- Inch, IDE, MLC | 
 enlarge | Brand: Transcend
Category: CE
List Price: $104.99
Buy New: $81.33
You Save: $23.66 (23%)
New (8) from $81.33
Rating:  6 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
CPU Speed: 0
CPU Type: Intel Celeron
Processors: 1
System Memory: 0
Memory Type: DRAM
Hard Drive Size: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 4.5 x 5.6 x 1.4
Warranty: 2 years warranty
MPN: TS32GSSD25-M
Model: TS32GSSD25-M
UPC: 760557807117
EAN: 0760557807117
ASIN: B000T9QRKE
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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| Features:
| • | Form Factor - 2.5" - Internal | | • | Dimensions WxDxH - 69.85 x 100.00 x 7.40 mm | | • | Weight - 80g | | • | Connector -- 44-Pin standard IDE/ATA connector (Pitch 2.0 mm) |
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Product Description
The IDE Solid State Disk has a distinct advantage over standard 2.5" HDDs in that it is a solid-state memory with no moving parts, and therefore not susceptible to mechanical failure as a result of vibrations. Its thickness is only 7.4mm, which makes it very easy to install in PCs and notebooks. The 2.5-inch IDE interface SSD has a tough outer metal case, enormous capacities, high reliability, low power consumption and anti-shock features that make it ideal to replace Hard Disk Drives.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 If You Use Windows, Don't Buy...Linux is another story September 7, 2008
Matthew Parnell
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Despite the fact that people complain about this drive being slow, the fact remains that they all are using Windows. Windows, both XP and Vista have two factors that make this drive suck when used with Windows.
These are the following:
A. Windows has a ton of background processes that always are accessing the disk, such as the indexing service and system restore.
B. Windows uses NTFS, a dilapidated old filesystem that is very inefficient, and it's journaling doesn't suffice with these drives. It's probable that even SLC (the "faster" models) will still be just as slow as a result of running Windows.
That said, I, a Linux user am extremely impressed and satisfied. I formatted this drive with the ext3 filesystem, using the noatime,notail,data=writeback options, which speed things even more. I am getting insane amounts of speed out of this little guy. Boot speed hasn't changed, as I already had it optomized as much as possible, and all the time my boot takes is 11 seconds. It would be less if the kernel did more things in parallel, but anyway, mechanical or not, throughput really doesn't have any bearing on boot speed after a while, unless you haven't hacked your init scripts to speed things up...
Anyway, apps start incredibly fast, latency is near real time, and I am very happy. If you have questions, please drop by #zen-sources on irc.freenode.net and ask me (ilikenwf) about this little fella.
I have a feeling using it with OSX would probably be pretty good too, I haven't tried using jfs with this drive, though. I will try ext4 when it is more stable, as it is even faster.
So far, I get sequential write speeds of around 126MB/sec, which is twice as fast as my mechanical drive. Random write isn't far behind. Those are far above the benchmarks given on the packaging, and I'd say this is an incredible deal. Go for it, if you use anything other than Windoze.
Benchmarks:
http://www.linuxinsight.com/how_fast_is_your_disk.html helped me figure these out. You should also see the ZDNet article on optimizing your filesystem for these disks.
/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 380 MB in 3.01 seconds = 126.28 MB/sec
Seeker v2.0, 2007-01-15, http://www.linuxinsight.com/how_fast_is_your_disk.html
Benchmarking /dev/sda [28832MB], wait 30 seconds..............................
Results: 2371 seeks/second, 0.42 ms random access time
Make sure you buy the right one! The slc, not the one they sell here, (the MLC does not work well for Operating systems) July 2, 2008
Dean Biddle
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
From their web site..
"TS32GSSD25-M 32GB 32GB 2.5" Solid State Disk - MLC
TS32GSSD25-S 32GB 32GB 2.5" Solid State Disk - SLC
TS64GSSD25-M 64GB 64GB 2.5" Solid State Disk - MLC
*For OS installations, SLC version is recommended
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 another flop - did Transcend even test these first? February 2, 2008
Jehrico76 (USA)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
My experience mirrors the others above. I installed the product in a regular PC, one I had built and was using as an HTPC, so I wanted an SSD to make the system more quiet. Very quick format, over four hours to install XP. I stuck with it anyways. Anytime I do anything once I'm in XP, it's VERY slow. It takes about 4-5 minutes for any random application to load (like JRiver Media Center, Adobe Reader, Firefox, etc). If I right click on My Computer for the purpose of pulling up the properties to get to the device manager, it'll take anywhere from 6-7 minutes to get into the device manager. If I then take another 3-5 minutes to get into the task manager and then processes, it shows my that the system idle process on the CPU usually sits in the high 90s, so there's nothing else going on in the background. I reinstalled the old fashioned HDD, and the problem went away. This product is an absolute dud, Transcend should issue a prompt recall. I was thinking about exchanging it thinking maybe I got a bad unit, but apparently, mine operates exactly like any other fully functional drive does and is not defective. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!
Keep away from this item January 17, 2008
P. Busse
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Formatting is really fast; installing windows xp broke of suddenly, my notebook getting extremely hot in the meantime. None of three computers found the card then, no further formatting or installing was possible.
This Transcend card is definitely an absolute flop.
Slow as molasses December 21, 2007
Craig Kobayashi (Los Angeles, CA United States)
21 out of 23 found this review helpful
My experience matches the previous reviewer's description.
Windows XP installation took about 4 hours before I just gave up.
I own a Samsung 1.8" SSD in a Toshiba Libretto U100 that is lightning fast compared to this Transcend piece of junk.
Very disappointed. I recommend staying away.
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