Introduction

The best choice for a computer upgrade
SSD225S is a 2.5" SATA SSD designed for both desktop and laptop computers. With one easy installment, you can enjoy fast application processing times, greatly enhancing your computer performance. With up to 2TB of storage capacity, you can save tons of photos, music files, and other media files.

Performance boost for everyday computing
Taking full advantage of the SATA III 6Gb/s interface and top-notch 3D NAND flash, the SSD225S strengthens its speeds with the SLC caching technology, delivering exceptional transfer speeds of up to 560MB/s read and 500MB/s write.

Guaranteed endurance and reliability
Transcend's SSD225S offers great Terabytes Written (TBW) values (up to 720 TB) indicating the total amount of data you can write into the drive over its lifetime.

RAID engine and LDPC coding
Detects and corrects transfer errors to prevent data corruption in TLC-based SSD products

Garbage Collection
Relocates existing data to release memory blocks

Wear-leveling
Distributes data evenly across memory cells to prolong SSD's lifespan

DevSleep
Intelligently shuts down SATA interface when not in use to prolong device's battery life

A better choice than HDD
Solid-state drives dominate the market for PC upgrades because they are faster and lighter than regular hard disk drives. SSDs feature less power use, are less noisy when in operation, and are more shock-resistant than traditional hard drives.

SSD Scope software
Transcend SSD Scope is advanced, user-friendly software that makes it easy to ensure your Transcend SSD remains healthy, and continues to run fast and error-free by determining the condition and optimizing the performance of your drive.

Guaranteed quality
Transcend’s solid state drives are built to the highest standards and are rigorously tested, offering outstanding quality, performance, and reliability.

Features

SSD form factor

2.5"

SSD capacity

250 GB

Interface

Serial ATA III

Memory type

3D NAND

NVMe

N

Component for

PC/notebook

Hardware encryption

N

Data transfer rate

6 Gbit/s

Read speed

500 MB/s

Write speed

330 MB/s

Random read (4KB)

40000 IOPS

Random write (4KB)

75000 IOPS

DevSlp (device sleep) support

Y

S.M.A.R.T. support

Y

TRIM support

Y

Native Command Queuing (NCQ)

Y

Mean time between failures (MTBF)

2000000 h

Windows operating systems supported

Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1

Linux operating systems supported

Kernel 2.6.31, Kernel 2.6.33, Kernel 3.12, Kernel 3.17, Kernel 3.3, Kernel 4.6.4, Linux Kernel 5.8

TBW rating

90

Certification

CE, FCC, BSMI, KC, RCM, UKCA

Power

Operating voltage

5 V

Operational conditions

Operating temperature (T-T)

0 - 70 °C

Maximum operating temperature

70 °C

Weight & dimensions

Width

69.8 mm

Depth

100 mm

Height

6.8 mm

Weight

45 g