TEAMGROUP GX2 512GB 3D NAND TLC 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal Solid State Drive SSD (Read Speed up to 530 MB/s) Compatible with Laptop & PC Desktop T253X2512G0C101

Ive been using this brand since they were an off-brand and new to the market. I do notice that the older drives that are nearing 6 to 8 years old are having larger bad sectors but you know I use them so its hitting their max lifetime for writes. I know someone out there probably has gotten a drive thats been dead on arrival but so far knock on wood these have been pretty damn good for me Great for upgrading old laptops and computers or just as a second drive for a steam library.

Using an SSD 2.5 for your main disk is basically a thing of the past. All new motherboards have been equipped with NVMe M.2 slots for the past 3-4 years. All SSDs are limited by the SATA speed of 6gbs. So buying a premium brand may not be the smart thing to do. We often use the 4gbs versions of SSDs in our builds so customers have a built-in backup. The other day we used four 4gig SSDs that were connected as a RAID 1 to give the customer a fast, (that is much faster than conventional hard drives), internal backup system. The normal hard drives may copy/read in the 250 range while this RAID 1 was doing it at 725.

I bought this 2tb SATA III internal SSD for $72. Amazing value. I was a little worried that the performance would be poor but I am getting sustained writes just below 500MB/s and sustained reads just over 500MB/s. Very, very large writes eventually slow down but I was able to get decent speeds even when writing 500gb consisting of several hundred thousand of files for a big backup task – took about 30 minutes or an average of half the smaller sustained write speed which isnt spectacular but perfectly fine. And completely expected. Reads never slow down, its only writes that eventually get slower. In normal operation where you are writing only small amounts to the drive at any one time even if youre reading very large amounts, you will never see the speeds drop below about 500MB/s. This is a great archive, backup, and general storage drive. It cant compete with really fast modern SSDs with faster interfaces but the performance is right in line with other inexpensive SSDs using a SATA III interface. Most of those other inexpensive SSDs are more expensive than this one, sometimes a lot more expensive. I have it in a USB 3 gen1 enclosure and I can boot my computer with it just fine. Its certainly not the best boot drive but youd pay quite a bit more for a better boot drive let alone a best one. Just got it today so I cant speak about longevity. The TBW specified by the manufacturer for the 2tb version which I got is pretty good. I dont plan to ever fill it up more than just a bit past halfway and its for incremental backups so after today the writes will be pretty small and therefore I expect it will last me for as long as I care to keep it in service.

Been waiting for prices on SSDs to reach a good price. Using for back up for externals and they are worth it. Speed is good.

Been Daily driving for a few months now and happy with the performance especially for the price.. Would buy again! Have it in an old HP WAVE along with the NVME Variant of this same drive and the machine purrs along way better than how it came originally with a 128gb NVME and 1TB HDD.

Model purchased/reviewed was the AX2 2TB SATA 2.5 SSD. Does what it should for the most part. Plastic casing (common for lower end SSDs) but feels sturdier than most in this price category. This shouldnt matter too much unless you are doing a lot of hot swapping of the drive. GParted reports 1.86TiB usable space, just slightly larger than the 2TB HDD it replaced (so storage is a true 2TB not 1.92TB like some other 2TB models - this matters when replacing drives in arrays, larger is usually OK but smaller is often an problem). Most true 2TB drives report 1.82TiB so this dive is 40GiB larger than expected. Does not support DRAT/DZAT (Deterministic Read ZEROs After TRIM) - meaning no TRIM when connected to an LSI/Broadcom HBA. So while Team Group claims TRIM support, it wont fully operate in all cases. Unfortunately the LSI/Broadcom HBAs are quite common and popular.

I used this in a pc u built for my cousin. Its was only used for her kids to class work because they are home school. The only thing on the ssd was the os and a few small files. After maybe 5 months of light use, the pc shut down in the middle of class work and then got stuck at the post screen. After I went and picked up the pc to check it out, the ssd doesnt show in the bios, but shows up in command prompt as having no available space used or available and cannot be formatted.

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If you are shopping this, you are looking for the cheapest SSD that will still perform to spec. I am happy to report that this is indeed the case. I get reads/writes as specified. I copied my Activision library from an NVMe drive to this one ystd, ~400gb, and it sustained 400-500MB/s throughout. Mostly hovering around 450. This is pretty much standard for SATAIII SSDs at this point so nothing out of the ordinary. Doesn’t choke after a few GB like some cost-optimized drives will when they run out of cache. Physically, they definitely saved money. The case is plastic. The PCB is about 1/4th of the case. This is fine imo, it is not a display piece and the screw-holes have a metal insert so even if you’re moving it around a few times, the physical construction is probably more than adequate. It does have a metal-looking sticker on the top, so if it does happen to be visible in your build, it is not offensive. I’d buy it again if its cost is lower than similar models. Basically just a commodity drive at commodity price. Gave it a 3 stars on “for gaming” because I think gamers should be looking at PCIe-based storage these days. For games that don’t saturate SATAIII it is fine.

I appreciate Teamgroup for throwing the extra 12gbs on top of the 500, this means after windows 11 instal you’ll have about 490gbs remaining!