Review on 💾 Transcend 128GB MTS430S SATA III 6Gb/s 42 mm M.2 SSD Solid State Drive (TS128GMTS430S) by Mike Lawler

I got this for my Hackintosh (HP Elitebook 840 G2). The hack already had a Crucial SSD (500GB) which I used as a boot drive, it's fast and works well, but I used less than half the capacity of the drive. I added Transcend and the Mac partition with SuperDuper! cloned and then copied the EFI partition manually. I pulled out the SSD and booted up to see if it would work. It worked on the first try. I reinstalled the SSD and then added 2 more partitions to the SSD, one of which will eventually contain a copy of my iTunes library and the other will be used as auxiliary storage. I now back up my Transcend to an SSD which is very convenient and I can boot from the SSD if something happens to the Transcend. Transcend boots about as fast as an SSD. I thought it would load a lot faster, but that might be because I need to reconfigure something. It's still MUCH faster than even a traditional 7200 RPM hard drive. The hardest part of the process was getting the computer to recognize the Transcend drive. While searching for the M2 drive type to choose, I found a very old post on HP's website that explained how to do it. I can't remember the exact details, but it involved going into the BIOS and enabling RAID (get it), rebooting and getting a BSOD, rebooting into the BIOS and going back to what it was before RAID was, and then resolve the system to boot normally. THEN the computer could see the drive. During my research I have seen several reports that people cannot use M2 as a Windows boot drive on this computer. I don't use Windows, so I can't comment on that. Recommended.