Transcend ESD400 256GB External SSD Review

To test real life performance of a drive we use a mix of folder/file types and by using the FastCopy utility (which gives a time as well as MB/s result) we record the performance of drive reading from & writing to a 256GB Samsung SSD850 PRO.

60GB Steam folder – 29,521 files.
50GB File folder – 28,523 files.
12GB Movie folder – 24 files (mix of Blu-ray and 4K files).
10GB Photo folder – 621 files (mix of .png, raw and .jpeg images).
10GB Audio folder – 1,483 files (mix of mp3 and .flac files).

Transferring our test folders of real life data to and from the drive was performed without any problems, the drive managing over 200MB/s for all the transfers with the exception of the reading back the data from the 60GB Steam folder which was a shade under 200MB/s. Copying the contents of the same folder to the ESD400 took a mere 4 minutes 30 seconds and just over 3 minutes to go the opposite way.

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