Recently, a new category of devices has gained a foothold in the computer components market, which can be called “creative gadgets.” They include specialized laptops, monitors, video cards and motherboards designed for designers, artists, musicians, coders, VFX specialists and other representatives of the so-called creative industry. So the Taiwanese memory manufacturer Team Group decided to try its hand in this field in 2021, launching its line of diverse T-Create SSD drives with a neat design, modern controllers and support for the latest versions of the PCI-E interface.


At the time of launch in 2021, the manufacturer limited itself to a couple of diverse drives intended for different categories of users. The first represents a dying class of 2.5-inch SATA3 SSDs with a typical speed limit of 550 MB/s for this format. This model is intended for upgrading legacy systems that did not yet support the M.2 format and the NVMe protocol. The second debutant was the T-Create Classic M.2 drive with support for the PCI-E 3.0 4x bus and a maximum write speed of 1700 MB/s.

In 2023, the manufacturer updated the line by introducing a pack of more modern T-Create Classic C4 NVMe solid-state drives of the PCIe 4.0 standard. It includes models C43, C45 and C47 with memory reserves from 512 GB to 4 TB and high sequential read/write speeds (note: up to 7400 MB/s). In order not to get confused in the numbers, the manufacturer notes that the number in the name indicates the throughput of the drive. In addition to the drives themselves, the company introduced an external aluminium pocket SSD Enclosure Kit, with which any NVMe drives of the M.2 2230/2242/2260/2280 format can be turned into a portable SSD.