Among the 2.5-inch SSDs, the Samsung 870 QVO took first place with very high speed and very good programme acceleration. This also applies to the first-placed PCIe 3.0 SSD: The SK Hynix Gold P31 not only took the test victory, but also the price-performance victory. The Samsung 990 Pro did the same with the PCIe 4.0 SSDs: It also achieved the test and price-performance victory here...

The Transcend 250 1TB offers 1,000 GB of storage space. In the tested transfer rates, it convinces with very good values for reading and writing. The m.2 SSD achieved solid values for operations per second (IOPS). Added to this is a general access read time of 0.2 milliseconds. The Transcend 250S 1TB (TS1TMTE250S) is available at a reasonable and fair price.

Transcend uses the latest PCIe 4.0 controller from Silicon Motion for the MTE250S; however, the manufacturer does not disclose which NAND is used here. The SSD is a bit slower than the Adata Legend 960, which is also equipped with the SM2264, but stores the data in TLC flash from Micron...