Should You Buy a Transcend External Hard Drive?
Transcend is one of the most popular external hard drive brands as well as being well known for its camcorders and optical disc drives.
If you are wondering how Transcend external hard drives compare to other brands, our guide below collates all the key info in a single place. We've compared over 1,000 external hard drives by objectively and impartially analysing over 5,100 user and expert reviews and 20 awards from hundreds of different review sites.
Transcend are recognised for their good selection of moderately popular external hard drives and start at $60 for the StoreJet 25C3 - 1Tb which has a hard drive capacity of 1TB and a weight of 136g and go up to $145 for the StoreJet 25M3 - 2Tb which has a hard drive capacity of 2TB and a weight of 216g. The average price of a new Transcend external hard drive is $85.
Is Transcend the Best External Hard Drive Brand?
So are Transcend external hard drives any good? We give every external hard drive a Kagoo Score by analysing its specs, reviews and prices and comparing this to its competitors. By aggregating this data across all external hard drives we are able to impartially rank all the external hard drive brands.
Our detailed analysis taking into account all of the above factors found that Transcend is the 6th best external hard drive brand out there.
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United States
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95% |
95%
1,512 reviews
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| #2 |
United States
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93% |
93%
73 reviews
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| #3 | 87% |
87%
14 reviews
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France
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74% |
74%
0 reviews
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71%
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67%
3 reviews
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67%
0 reviews
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Rocstor
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65% |
65%
1 review
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DataLocker
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63% |
63%
0 reviews
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Verbatim
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63% |
63%
0 reviews
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ioSafe
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62% |
62%
0 reviews
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| #12 |
Glyph
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57% |
57%
0 reviews
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| #13 |
Apricorn
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54% |
54%
1 review
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| #14 |
OWC
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52% |
52%
0 reviews
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Let's look at how Transcend external hard drives compare to the other external hard drive brands across each of the key facets that make up the Kagoo Score.
| All external hard drive Brands |
| Transcend External Hard Drives |
At an average purchase price of $85, Transcend external hard drives tend to be cheaper than most other external hard drive brands.
There's a smaller selection of Transcend external hard drives available compared to other external hard drive brands, with only 7 Transcend external hard drives currently on the market in the US.
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How Many Industry Awards Have Transcend External Hard Drives Received?
After checking thousands of expert review websites we couldn't find any industry awards for Transcend external hard drives. The table below shows the number of awards received by the most popular external hard drive brands. The largest number of awards provided by each review source is highlighted in green.
Compare all award winning external hard drives
| Number of Awards | Western Digital | A-DATA | Silicon Power | Buffalo | Rocstor |
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What is the Best Mid-Range Transcend External Hard Drive?
Transcend StoreJet 25M3 - 2Tb
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$144.99
Overstock
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Buy Now |
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2TB
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5,000 Mbit/s
DATA TRANSFER
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216g
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A great mid range choice, priced at $144.99 is the Transcend StoreJet 25M3 - 2Tb, which has a Kagoo Score of 61.
A good spec but only ok value for money 216g external hard drive.
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76
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Good Features |
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60
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Good |
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61
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Good |
The cheapest price that we could find for the StoreJet 25M3 - 2Tb in the US is $144.99 but in total we found only 2 prices for it.
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Out of stock
+1 more price
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$84.99
Delivery unknown
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Out of stock
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$84.99
Delivery unknown
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3 Year Warranty
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$144.99
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What is the Best Budget Choice Transcend External Hard Drive?
Transcend StoreJet 25H3 - 1Tb
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$86.42
Overstock
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Buy Now |
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1TB
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5,000 Mbit/s
DATA TRANSFER
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5,400 RPM
HARD DRIVE
ROTATIONAL |
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216g
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At only $86.42 and with a Kagoo Score of 63 the Transcend StoreJet 25H3 - 1Tb makes a great budget choice.
A good spec but only ok value for money 216g external hard drive.
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Good Features |
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66
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Good |
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63
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Good |
The cheapest price that we could find for the StoreJet 25H3 - 1Tb in the US is $86.42 but in total we found only 2 prices for it.
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Out of stock
+1 more price
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$59.99
Delivery unknown
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Out of stock
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$69.95
Delivery unknown
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$86.42
Delivery unknown
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Go to Store | |
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Compare All Transcend External Hard Drives
Find the best Transcend external hard drive for you by checking our complete list of over 115 external hard drives
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