Transcend StoreJet 25C3N 1TB HDD Review

Transcend, the leading brand in making digital storage, multimedia and industrial products made an extra slim portable hard drive for the consumers to provide them with storage solutions.

PACKAGING

The Transcend StoreJet 25C3N has a simple box with a plastic window that lets you see the hard drive itself. Inside its box, you’ll see pretty basic documentation and cable.

The 25C3N has 9.5mm aluminum unibody enclosure with beautiful chamfered edges. On its side, you’ll see the USB-Micro B connection and activity LED light on the left. The Transcend logo is located at the top left of the device. For connectivity, the 25C3N has USB 3.0 that can reach speed of up to 140MB/s.

PERFORMANCE

On this review, we performed series of tests to know the read and write speeds of the drive. In addition to this, we will also show you the health and temperature during idle and with load. We used three different software:

HD Tune Pro – This tool specifies the health of the drive and scans for any errors.

HD Tune Pro Benchmark Results

HD Tune Pro Random Access

ATTO Disk Benchmark – a renowned benchmarking tool for measuring file transfers for different sizes.

ATTO Disk Benchmark

Crystal Disk Mark – a tool that specializes in sequential read and write speeds. Unit used is MB/s and determines how fast can the files be transferred into the drive.

Crystal Disk Mark

Based on the results, the Transcend StoreJet 25C3N performed exactly what we expected. The hard drive didn’t show any signs of high temperature during benchmarks.

VERDICT

: TSR Watermark 5 Copy

: TSR Watermark 4 Copy

: TSR Watermark 3 Copy

: TSR Watermark 2 Copy

The Transcend StoreJet 25C3N has sleek form factor that is packed with 1TB of storage. You can easily carry it very well because of its portability. Price tag is Php3,000.00 and I gotta say, it’s competitive compared to other brands that has 1TB of storage.

PROS

Portable aluminum enclosure
Competitive Price
Performs very well

CONS

1TB is not enough for some

Gianfranco Viterbo

Gianfranco is the co-founder of gadgetpilipinas.net. He graduated from Far Eastern University. A Psychology student turned tech-savvy. He's currently the HR Supervisor of Blip Media and one of the content producers of Gadget Pilipinas. He enjoys playing competitive video games and binge-watch American TV series.