Review on Transcend Type C ESD240C Portable TS480GESD240C by Dan Rivera

Bought this external drive to replace my laptop. I liked the small size and low price. A small amount (120GB) is not that big of a problem for me in this application. It's getting hot. I've noticed that the outer shell always feels warm. This seems to be a common problem with SSDs (I have a Western Digital SSD that also gets hot). But Crystal Disk Info showed that the internal temperature reached 77 degrees C (170 degrees F). Since most manufacturers state a maximum temperature of 70°C, I was willing to return this device. But when I plugged it into the computer I bought it for, it ran at a lower temperature of between 55 and 60C. It's slow. Crystal Disk Mark showed that its reading speed is about 300MB/s, the writing speed is a bit faster. While a standard modern hard drive runs at just under 100, my WD SSD runs at 500 MB/s. However, I only do incremental backups once an hour, so speed isn't critical and the drive is idle (not working) most of the time. So far it's working great for what I need. i will keep it