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Review on ๐Ÿ”ฅ 2TB TEAMGROUP T-FORCE CARDEA ZERO Z330 SSD with SLC Cache, Graphene Copper Foil, 3D NAND TLC, NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4, M.2 2280, Gaming Internal Drive, Read/Write Speeds of 2,100/1,600 MB/s, for Laptop & Desktop TM8FP8002T0C311 by Robert Dickinson

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Expensive and mediocre

So this is my second high-end NVMe. I wanted to try a brand other than Samsung. A couple of complaints: Ceramic on one side only. Only half of the IC has this surface. I'm not getting the advertised 4GB/s speeds. There are a number of factors here. First, there is no "optimized" controller driver like Intel or Samsung have. I have an older z97, which is probably also due to the fact that not all PCI slots are 3.0. My maximum speed is 3200 MB/s. Team Group's own tests rate it as terrible, but other third-party tools say it's better than my Intel 660p. Otherwise, it's a solid real-world performance. Latency is much lower than SATA SSDs.

Pros
  • Understandable even for the old one
Cons
  • Some problems