The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/outm on 2024-07-26 02:37:19.
Hello,
Recently I was looking at the market for two small SSD - one to carry around and use occasionally, containing business/personal data with bitlocker, and being backup up about once a week, and another for a Raspberry I have at home for AdGuardDNS and maybe as occasional SAMBA server (+reliability than MicroSD/flash pendrives)
What I value the most is for it to be reliable (physically and technologically), small and cheap. Yeah, I ask a lot, I know.
The thing is, I found on Amazon an offer on the Trasnscend ESD310C, a “pendrive” with USB-A and USB-C that they sell as it being an SSD on a Pendrive factor.
Small as a Pendrive and 11 grams, Google says to me it uses:
Silicon Motion's SM2320 native UFD controller coupled with Kioxia's BiCS5 112L 3D TLC NAND
Also, it appears to have a p-SLC cache of 32GB. And 256-AES hardware encryption (Anandtech says not available, but the manufacturer says yes) - and TRIM, SMART, available. All in that size of an aluminium bar.
I suppose it probably will catch a lot of heat when on use for big transfers, but even then, I have not been able to find a conclusion about this (I just hope it doesn’t catch that much heat as to not work properly)
So, at the end, between this and a another external SSD like a Samsung S7 or Crucial X9 (which is QLC!), at about the same price, do you think the Transcend have any shortcomings? Anything maybe I’m not thinking about and should care? The size factor and not having to use cables is a big selling point for me, just for convenience
I find too good to be true to have a TLC Kioxia (Toshiba) NAND based SSD on just a pen drive format, with cache and that price? Where is the catch?
As I said, my use case would be carrying around core info that later on would have a weekly backup (to another SSD and to the BackBlaze cloud) + another as Raspberry SSD
Thanks!