I was looking for cost effective SSD drive to my laptop to give it more life(it was years older and felt slow). I came across this product and seemed promising. I installed this drive as secondary drive and I'm very happy with performance. My laptop now boots, works and shuts down quite faster.

What is Ultra DMA Mode For SSD?
The Ultra DMA (Ultra Direct Memory Access, UDMA) interface was the fastest method used to transfer data between the computer (through the ATA controller) and an ATA device until Serial ATA.
UDMA succeeded Single/Multiword DMA as the interface of choice between ATA devices and the computer.
There are 8 different UDMA modes, ranging from 0 to 6 for ATA, 0 to 7 (for CompactFlash), each with its own timing.

Advantages -
First Scan
Sequential Read - 245.45 MB/se...

After working on this Beast for two weeks, Here is my opinion.

Pros-
1. Extremely Light wait.
2. no sound (since no moving parts as in HDD)
3. Hilarious Boot and Startup Experience (Approx 5 sec of Boot on my Windows)
4. I have i5 3rd Gen Processor and HIGHLY recommended to GAMERS :D , It Takes you CPU utilization to 100% which i never observed in my HDD (Its a really good thing having a CPU utilization so high,CPU processes every thing at a speed blaze)

Cons-
1. Low capacity (I never save ...

Well, when compared to Kingston SSD's 'Read and Write' speeds are outstanding, but build quality is pathetic. Looks very delicate and cheap plastic materials used. It may break if you do not handle it carefully. .

Well, when compared to Kingston SSD's 'Read and Write' speeds are outstanding, but build quality is pathetic. Looks very delicate and cheap plastic materials used. It may break if you do not handle it carefully. If you are purchasing Transcend SSD's don't go for SSD340 models, better go for SSD370.