Transcend is a company that focuses mainly on memory-based products. From Memory cards to USB drives, SSDs, card readers, external hard drives and more, they have most of your memory needs covered. Other than its headquarters and manufacturing plant being in Taipei, Transcend has established offices in Los Angeles, Maryland, Silicon Valley, Hamburg, Rotterdam, London, Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Hong Kong. This really is quite impressive and makes them a truly worldwide company.

Today, we will be taking a look at one of their external storage options by way of the ESD350C. The ESD350C is an external SSD that features USB 3.0 and 3.1 connectivity. With the reversible USB 3.1 technology now becoming more mainstream, it is great to have an external drive that makes use of it. The ESD350C isn’t much bigger than your standard 2.5″ SSD and will be interesting to see what type of performance it can offer users. For now, let’s take a closer look at the drive before we get into the performance results.