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

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.

Finally decided to try an SSD after my wifes LAPTOP died. Once I figured out it was the 2yr old HHD was the issue, I started pricing a new drive. For the same price or even less I could get this SSD. Installed normally but WOW...what a difference. Windows 10 installed in less than 4 minutes (from USB). No more complaints about her laptop. And actually shes trying to keep me off it.

I bought this to use as a secondary drive for some more space as the NVMe drive on my gaming laptop runs Windows and is only 258gb. So I cant tell you how well it boots or runs windows. I wont post any CrystalDiskMark scores because what we really want is real world usage and nobody really gets those scores. Easy to install other than a few broken fingernails getting the back of the laptop off. Cmos disk error on reboot because I disconnected the battery during install but Windows fixed on reboot. Used the disk manager to initialize and allocate to drive D. Im posting some screenshots. C is my Windows Hynix NMMe drive. D is the Teamgroup AX 512gb SSD drive and E is my microSD card. Copying 160gb from my SD card to the Teamgroup drive took about 40 minutes. Not bad considering it was coming from a flash that doesnt read so fast. The Desktop (C) to Data were a windows 10 and 11 ISO files. The D to New folder is an example copying a file from D to D, in which it has to read and write at the same time. So there is some examples of real-world use. Speeds will vary depending on if youre copying from another drive, flash drive or within the drive as you can see. Fastest speed I saw was 450 mbps. Overall, Im more than happy with it. Considering I was getting write times in the 20s and 30s on my SD card this is super-fast. Would I have gotten faster speeds if I had bought a WD, Crucial or Samsung? Maybe. But not enough to justify the extra money. As far as longevity is concerned, lets just say that Ive never had a drive fail on me since I began using computers in the 90s. So take this for whatever its worth. Good deal at $28.

It is a good product, I recommend it

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.

Good SSD would buy again

Can only use this with the same in a raidz as this registered 2.05 tb, other manufactures are spot on at 2.0 tb so you can mix and match. Taking one star due to this, if you are not going to put these in a raid its excellent value for the dollars.

Ive done a bit of heavy reading and writing to this drive and it maintains a high speed throughout a heavy write op of many GB of data and thats all I care about, that and maintaining a excellent read speed while reading say 500GB of data from the drive and it does that just fine. I dont know how it will hold up over time because I havent used it enough yet but so far so good. FANTASTIC value for what I paid which was under $100 USD. If you can find these under $110 its a good deal. Prices fluctuate of course because of market forces and this seems to happen more so with memory and storage devices, so dont expect prices to always get lower just because its an older model. If its under $110 its a good price for this quality. It it were a top end SATA SSD it would be more like $130 - $140 and be a good deal.

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!