Transcend 245S TS1TMTE245S 1 TB

A reasonably fast and affordable M.2 NVMe SSD that accelerates PC performance without significant costs. Released in 2023 as part of the Transcend MTE series, it is designed for a wide range of consumers, including casual users, gamers, and content creators. The manufacturer-claimed read and write speeds (5300 MB/s and 4600 MB/s, respectively) allow for quick game loading, program launching, and large file transfers, noticeably outpacing traditional SATA SSDs.

IOPS figures (500K for reading, 630K for writing) ensure smooth performance in multitasking scenarios such as media processing or running multiple applications. The use of a custom Realtek RTS5772DL controller helped reduce the cost of the device without significant loss in speed and quality, although the lack of a DRAM buffer may lead to performance slowdown during long writes of large volumes of data.

In everyday scenarios, this is almost negligible, but for professional tasks like video editing, it's worth keeping this factor in mind. Additional device reliability is highlighted by the manufacturer-rated 2 million hours mean time to failure (i.e., nearly 230 years of continuous operation). The universal M.2 2280 format (22x80 mm) ensures compatibility with most modern PCs, laptops, gaming consoles, and other equipment, provided the PCI-E 4.0 interface is supported on their side, otherwise, the actual speed will be lower than claimed.