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Smart Wizard
Get a complete build plan based on budget and goals.
Build Comparison
Compare complete builds side by side.
Part Comparison
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Transcend

Performance, endurance, NAND architecture, thermals, and compatibility.
| Merchant | Price | $/GB |
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Newegg | $209.99 | $0.105 | In Stock | $209.99 | Buy |
About This Product
The Transcend 220S 2TB is an M.2 2280 NVMe SSD utilizing a PCIe Gen3 x4 interface. It offers significantly faster sequential read/write speeds compared to SATA SSDs, making it suitable for general computing and light content creation tasks. While it provides a performance uplift over older storage technologies, it will not match the speeds of newer PCIe Gen4 or Gen5 NVMe drives.
Verdict
βGood value NVMe SSD for general use and system responsiveness, but not for high-end performance.β
Performance, endurance, NAND architecture, thermals, and compatibility.
Sequential, random, and sustained speeds.
Sequential Read
3,500 MB/s
Sequential Write
2,900 MB/s
How long the drive lasts under sustained writes.
TBW (lifetime writes)
4,400 TB
Drive Writes/Day
1.21 DWPD
calculated from TBW
MTBF
2.0M hours
Warranty
5 years
Controller, NAND, and cache β what most retailers don't show you.
NAND Type
3D NAND
DRAM Cache
No
Critical for Gen5 drives and laptops.
Max Temp
70Β°C
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