The drive is built on a compact PCB that only fills about three-quarters of the enclosure. To get to the drives internals its just a matter of undoing the four tiny screws on the sides of the drive, two of which are hidden under a pair of void warranty warning stickers.
Transcend's SSD220S is built on a standard 7mm, 2.5in format using a good quality metal enclosure. There's not much in the box beside the drive a warranty card, a quick installation guide, four fixing screws and some very small but useful catalogues of other Transcend products. The remaining text is a multilingual marketing list of some of the drives other features. There's a list of the drive's specifications and performance and a checklist of what's in the box. The rear of the box has a sticker with the drives product number, capacity and NAND type. The front of the Transcend SSD220S 480GB box has an image of the drive, its capacity and a list of three of the drives features.
Physical Specifications: Usable Capacities: 120GB, 240GB, 480GB NAND Components: 16nm Micron TLC NAND Interface: Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/s (SATA III) Form Factor: 2.5in, 7mm NAND Controller: Silicon Motion SM2256KAB Dimensions: 100 × 69.85 × 6.8mm Drive Weight: 58g Transcend back the drive with a three-year warranty. Just in case you were wondering, the drives “S” suffix merely means that it has an aluminium enclosure. Transcend quote sequential performance for the drive at 550MB/s for reads and 450MB/s for writes with random 4K IOPS figures of 80,000 IOPS for both reads and writes which are pretty good figures for an entry level drive. The SSD220S comes in just three capacities 120GB, 240GB and the flagship 480GB drive and uses a combination of a Silicon Motion SM2256KAB controller and 16nm TLC NAND. This time around we are looking at a drive from the other end of the spectrum, the entry level SSD220S which uses TLC NAND.
We recently looked at a drive from Transcend's flagship performance SSD range – the SSD370 series, which uses MLC NAND.
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