Team Group MP34 M.2 TM8FP4512G0C101 512 GB

Keep up with the times

Team Group MP34 is the new wave of high-speed M.2 NVMe SSD for 2019. Compared to last year's models, even state employees switched from the PCI-E 3.0 x2 bus to x4 with twice the bandwidth (32 versus 16 gigatransactions / s). At the same time, the price per gigabyte, on the contrary, continues to decline — the 512 GB NVMe x4 model is now being sold for less than $100.

Assembled in bricks

The brain centre of the SSD MP34 is the Phison E12 controller. It is made using TSMC's 28nm process technology, has two ARM architecture cores and is capable of working with eight memory channels. Simply put, up to eight flash memory chips can be installed on one SSD. The MP34 uses Toshiba's 64-layer 3D TLC BICS3. The manufacturer claims more than 1500 rewrite cycles before wear. All this is complemented by a buffer from DDR4 RAM.

Cruising speed

The sequential read and write speeds of SSD MP34 are as follows: the older 256 GB model has 2700 and 850 MB / s, respectively, the average 512 GB model has 3000 and 1700 MB / s, and the older 1 TB model has 3000 and 2600 MB /with. Naturally, it is worth making allowances for TLC-memory, which, when writing large files, slows down the speed by about four times. The speed of random reading and writing of small 4K blocks for all models is 190 and 160K IOPS, respectively.

To each according to his needs

The Team Group MP34 suits both gamers who are itching to start a multiplayer match as soon as possible, and a video editor to store a hefty project cache, and programmers working with databases from numerous small files. But fans of computer modding should pay attention to the T-Force Delta S TUF Gaming SSD with customizable RGB lighting.