Transcend, Taiwan based manufacturer of storage and multimedia products has recently announced the availability of 1 Terabyte M.2 Solid State Drive that’s made suitable for what is highly in demand, like the ultra-thin computing devices such as Ultrabook, tablet computers and laptops. Transcend’s MTS800 M.2 SSD is equipped with high-quality MLC NAND flash to maintain stability, and is built with protective technologies, like Global Wear-levelling, Advanced Garbage Collection, and Device Sleep mode.

Spacce and Speed

By utilising next-generation SATA III 6Gb/s interface, the SSD is capable of delivering sequential read/write performance of up to 560MB/s and 460MB/s respectively. The newly released spacious 1TB supplies the SSD capacity to its full scale ranging from 32GB to 1TB.

Built in are also technologies that offer optimum protection, including Error Correction Code (ECC) that helps detect and correct potential transfer errors, Device Sleep mode to reduce power consumption and shorten the response time upon wake-up from Sleep or Hibernate, and the S.M.A.R.T. function to efficiently monitor SSD health conditions. Others include Intelligent Block Management and Wear-levelling algorithm to protect data integrity and prolong SSD lifespan.

Intel Support

Transcend’s MTS series supports Intel Smart Response Technology (ISRT) in which an SSD is used as a cache between the hard disk drive and the computer system to memorize the applications and files that are most frequently accessed. This allows the hard disk more storage capacity to process and store other programs and files so as to improve the overall efficiency.

Apart from MTS800 available in 32GB~1TB capacities, two other Transcend’s MTS400 and MTS600 M.2 SSD models are also available in 32GB~512GB. All the MTS series are backed by Transcend’s Three-year Limited Warranty.