MSA230S 256GB SATA III 6Gb/s SSD, Read/Write up to 530/400 MB/s with DRAM Cache for Ultrabooks, Tablet PCs & Slim Servers TS256GMSA230S

Works great with a mSATA to IDE adapter, quite the space and speed improvement for older retro machines. Keep in mind that these won't do TRIM in the older machines and you are going to be limited to the IDE interface speed. However, since we're not writing 100s of megabytes to the drive it's not a problem.

Works perfect needs to be initialised before use.

Great HD. And at a good price

Installed it in less than a minute, opened disk management which immediately recognized the storage. It requested to initialize which I did, and now about to install windows on it as the primary boot device. Can't wait for the speed gains as I am also upgrading the process!! Was on a budget so I bought the 256 GB which is enough for OS. I just have to be disciplined to dump all other stuff into the internal 1TB HDD which will now be for file storage.

Bought this to upgrade a vintage laptop from it's 4GB IDE hard drive to solid state for greater capacity, reliability and speed, in conjunction with this IDE to MSATA adapter: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07H7K7VBP/ This was the only trusted SSD brand I could find in small capacities. I didn't want to use any greater capacity in case the laptop didn't recognise it. The SSD was clearly much faster when I was restoring the data to it from a newer, host PC, but in the vintage laptop the speed was not much greater. Of course it's limited by the controller speed and old CPU. But it is silent and 16x more space!

UPDATE 25/11/2022 - Transend have agreed the product is not fit for purpose in my scenario. I asked if they might exchange it the MLC version of the drive. Unfortunately they want me to pay them for the privilege, and for the same cost, I can just purchase the 128GB Integral item so I declined. No response since... Over a year later and on my third RMA item from Transend I cannot recomend this at all. System is pfSense on an embedded NUC. Transend have replaced twice - all three drives raise the same errors in pfSense logs. Have updated BIOS, tried everything, but I also replicated the issue in windows with the first device and a USB adapter (picture). Wasted far too much time on replacement drive so I would recomend going straight to the Integral INSSD256GMSA drive which I have found no such issues with. -------------------------- Mar 10 14:00:06 gw1 kernel: ada0 at ahcich0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 Mar 10 14:00:06 gw1 kernel: ada0: <TS64GMSA230S R0427GN1> ACS-3 ATA SATA 3.x device Mar 10 14:00:06 gw1 kernel: ada0: Serial Number G590260522 Mar 10 14:00:06 gw1 kernel: ada0: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) Mar 10 14:00:06 gw1 kernel: ada0: Command Queueing enabled Mar 10 14:00:06 gw1 kernel: ada0: 61057MB (125045424 512 byte sectors) Mar 10 14:00:58 gw1 kernel: (ada0:ahcich0:0:0:0): WRITE_FPDMA_QUEUED. ACB: 61 40 a8 e3 98 40 06 00 00 00 00 00 Mar 10 14:00:58 gw1 kernel: (ada0:ahcich0:0:0:0): CAM status: Uncorrectable parity/CRC error Mar 10 14:00:58 gw1 kernel: (ada0:ahcich0:0:0:0): Retrying command, 3 more tries remain Apr 30 10:39:52 gw1 kernel: ada0 at ahcich0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 Apr 30 10:39:52 gw1 kernel: ada0: <TS64GMSA230S R0427GN1> ACS-3 ATA SATA 3.x device Apr 30 10:39:52 gw1 kernel: ada0: Serial Number G986480879 Apr 30 10:39:52 gw1 kernel: ada0: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) Apr 30 10:39:52 gw1 kernel: ada0: Command Queueing enabled Apr 30 10:39:52 gw1 kernel: ada0: 61057MB (125045424 512 byte sectors) Apr 30 10:46:44 gw1 kernel: (ada0:ahcich0:0:0:0): WRITE_FPDMA_QUEUED. ACB: 61 68 80 a3 56 40 06 00 00 00 00 00 Apr 30 10:46:44 gw1 kernel: (ada0:ahcich0:0:0:0): CAM status: Uncorrectable parity/CRC error Apr 30 10:46:44 gw1 kernel: (ada0:ahcich0:0:0:0): Retrying command, 3 more tries remain Sep 29 11:31:28 gw1 kernel: ada0 at ahcich0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 Sep 29 11:31:28 gw1 kernel: ada0: <TS64GMSA230S R0427GN1> ACS-3 ATA SATA 3.x device Sep 29 11:31:28 gw1 kernel: ada0: Serial Number H244960778 Sep 29 11:31:28 gw1 kernel: ada0: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) Sep 29 11:31:28 gw1 kernel: ada0: Command Queueing enabled Sep 29 11:31:28 gw1 kernel: ada0: 61057MB (125045424 512 byte sectors) Oct 4 13:58:58 gw1 kernel: (ada0:ahcich0:0:0:0): WRITE_FPDMA_QUEUED. ACB: 61 08 b8 a7 57 40 01 00 00 00 00 00 Oct 4 13:58:58 gw1 kernel: (ada0:ahcich0:0:0:0): CAM status: Uncorrectable parity/CRC error Oct 4 13:58:58 gw1 kernel: (ada0:ahcich0:0:0:0): Retrying command, 3 more tries remain Oct 11 08:41:55 gw1 kernel: Root mount waiting for:ada0 at ahcich0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 Oct 11 08:41:55 gw1 kernel: ada0: <TS64GMSA230S R0427GN1> ACS-3 ATA SATA 3.x device Oct 11 08:41:55 gw1 kernel: ada0: Serial Number H244960778 Oct 11 08:41:55 gw1 kernel: ada0: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) Oct 11 08:41:55 gw1 kernel: ada0: Command Queueing enabled Oct 11 08:41:55 gw1 kernel: ada0: 61057MB (125045424 512 byte sectors)

Installed into my Lenovo ThinkPad X230 as the main drive and using a SATA drive for data. So far no issues with the drive at all, the laptop feels snappy and boot times, data copying etc are nice and fast.

Relatively simple to install but note that there is no securing screws which can be an issue if you don't have them for your motherboard. I understand why they are not included since motherboards differ in terms of screw size needed. Windows 10 identified the drive without issue during a fresh install. Now Windows starts 80% faster and is much more responsive. So a good value upgrade to an aging PC.