NVMe capable SSDs are growing increasingly popular these days, offering much higher transfer speeds than the usual SATA drive. New markets always offer new opportunities and that on the other hand means that different vendors will launch new products. Transcend is one of those having presented their new MTE850 NVMe SSD.


The new MTE850 NVMe SSD should be available with 128GB, 256GB and 512GB capacity. The unit uses 3D MLC flash memory as its primary storage medium and a DDR3 DRAM cache. Like most NVMe SSDs out today, the MTE850 NVMe SSD comes in the M.2 2280 form factor with a PCIe Gen 3.0 x4 interface. Talking about performance, sequentially reading these drives should hit up to 2'500MB/s and 1'100MB/s in the case of sequential writes.

Included in the delivery, Transcend offers a free download of their SSD Scope software that monitors the drive's status and health. Furthermore the tool can check the S.M.A.R.T. status, performs diagnostic scans and if you wish you can secure erase the drive. All the drives are backed by 3 years of warranty. So far Transcend has not revealed details on pricing and availability on their MTE850 SSD series.




Source: thessdreview