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BrandTranscend
Item Height
35 millimetres
Item Width14.3 centimetres
Screen Size669.2913385826772 inches
Processor
Processor Count1
Memory
Computer Memory TypeDRAM
Hard Drive
Additional DrivesDVD
Graphics
Graphics Card InterfaceAGP
Connectivity
Wireless Type802.11B, 802.11A, 802.11G
Additional Specifications
U-Rack Size1
Technical Details
- RoHS compliant
- Fully IDE compatible
- Non-volatile Flash Memory for outstanding data retention
- Built-in ECC (Error Correction Code) functionality
- Supports up to Ultra DMA Mode 5
- Lower Power Consumption
- Shock resistance
- 2-year warranty
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Transcend is very pleased to announce its 2.5-inch IDE Solid State Disk (SSD), which is compatible with most mainstream PC and notebook computers. 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. Transcend’s 2.5-inch IDE SSD series 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. Transcend’s 2.5-inch IDE SSD is compact in size and its thickness is only 7.4mm, which makes it very easy to install in PCs and notebooks. In addition, the 2.5-inch IDE SSD has built-in ECC (Error Correction Code) functionality that ensures highly reliable data transfer and increases your systems energy efficiency.
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2.5IN IDE-44PIN
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This solid state drive fitted straight in to my old iBook G3 and soon brought the old machine back into use. Beware renovating old Macs though; the OS updates cost far too much to make it worthwhile and the old OS don't let you use a lot of modern day software, including any of the decent web browsers. Buy an iPad instead.
My old sony vaio VGNFS415B is now as good as new. It is much faster, with quiet operation and a longer battery life. saved me a bundle by not having to buy a new laptop. Instructions in the box for entering BIOs were misleading. Actually, I only had to restart the laptop with Windows-XP cd in the drive, much easier then the instructions provided.
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46 of 55 people found the following review helpful
If You Use Windows, Don't Buy...Linux is another story
7 Sep 2008
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
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
29 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Slow as molasses
21 Dec 2007
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.
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.
37 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Very Slow
19 Dec 2007
Amazon Verified Purchase
I've tried to install Windows XP on this drive twice. The drive formated instantly. First few megabytes copied very fast and then it slowed down to a crawl. I repeated the process after waiting for 4 hours with "Time Remaining" stuck at 39 min., with the same results. Then I placed the drive in an external usb enclosure to see what's going on. The formating takes a few seconds. During file transfer to the SSD drive the first 8-9MB copy really fast, then it slows down to a crawl. 18GB took at least 2 hours to copy onto this drive. I would stay away from it.
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