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

I recently upgraded my system with the 2TB 2.5 SSD and I am very happy with the results. It has made my system much more responsive. I have noticed a significant improvement in boot times, as well as in the loading times of applications and games. Overall, I am very impressed with it. Its a great value for the price and I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a fast and reliable SSD.

Got this sale special sale for under $70. Will work perfect in wifes Desktop as an extra storage drive, seems fast enough to me.

Dell Inspiron series 3000 - upgraded to SSD. Cut my boot time from over 3 mins to less than 30 seconds.

Great price, fast SSD.

Ive purchased a total of 16 of these drives. Ive had one fail on me after about 2 months and have not sent it for RMA. Teamgroups RMA procedure on the website says I would need to pay to ship it to Taiwan and pay all customs / duties fees for shipping both ways, but they would pay the return shipping to me. Considering the low cost of the drive and the required amount of time this would take for international shipping, the cost of the international shipping, and the cost of the additional fees I would need to pay, I have waited and I am still debating if I want to deal with that and if its even worth it since Ive been so disappointed with these drives. Ive bought various other items from Teamgroup and so far have been happy with all except these drives and Teamgroups RMA policy. These drives worked well enough for basic single drive operation in a laptop/desktop as long as there was not any large amounts of data written to the drive. After the small internal cache of the drive is filled, they start to write data at ~15-25 MB/s. This is about 10% the performance of a traditional hard drive and about 5% of the performance of the drive before its internal cache is full. Using them in a RAID setup still cannot offset this poor performance. Even with 16 of these drives in a RAID0, they will still drop write rates to around 150-200 MB/s after the cache fills and will typically drop even lower to around 30-50 MB/s for large files (~5GB+). In comparison, a single 8TB traditional hard drive can sustain 180-220 MB/s for the entire file copy. For example, to copy 6.32TB of data over a 10Gb LAN from NVME drives, it took ~35hrs with these drives in a 16 drive RAID0 setup and ~10hrs to copy the same data to a single 8TB traditional hard drive. This is an average rate of ~180 MB/s for the 8TB HDD and ~53 MB/s for 16 of these drives in a RAID0. Setting these drives in other RAID setups was even worse: JBOD (spanned) = ~17 MB/s; RAID5 = ~29 MB/s; RAID6 = ~27 MB/s; RAID10 = ~32 MB/s. While the write speeds are very annoying if planning to write large amounts of data to these drives, it is the read speeds for large amounts of data that is why I am so disappointed. These drives could burst data at high rates and using synthetic benchmarks show very good read speeds in a 16 drive RAID0 setup, but under actual usage, they cannot maintain those speeds for very long and drop to very slow rates as well. The drop in read speeds isnt as significant as the write rates, but it is still an issue. Reading the same 6.32TB of data that was used in my write tests, these drives would average ~220 MB/s. This is much better than the write average, but still only slightly better than a single traditional HDD. Even short bursts are about the same speed when tested using random files. The synthetic benchmarks show read speeds of 4-5 GB/s, but it appears thats because the test file used in these benchmarks easily fit into the drives cache and is read from there during the benchmark tests. However, when testing using random files from the array, the read rate is much slower and mostly in the ~180-250 MB/s range. In summary, if you are looking for an affordable SSD for use in a laptop/desktop or as a boot drive for a server, these drives should be fine, but if you are looking to use these for a NAS or a server, keep looking and avoid these drives. I will note that some of my tests were done using only 15 of these drives in the various RAID setups as one of them failed. I also no longer use these drives and they are just sitting around. My use for these drives was at first for main NAS storage and that was downgraded to use as a backup for my main NAS and now nothing, because using two traditional HDDs in RAID1 for backup is faster than using 15 of these, even if used in RAID0 with no redundancy.

512GB for about 20 bucks. It works perfectly as secondary storage. 4 years ago i had to pay 3 times the price.

Cheap 2TB SSD in the market.

I was in need of another 2.5 SSD, as my PC is small and equipped with only one M.2 slot and the rest, SATA. I have a Samsung 870 in one, which has been great and this was replacing a stock 3.5 HDD. I figured for $65 and 2TB which equated out to be 1.89TB after formatting, and crystal disk specced this out at 540MBs read and 30MBish, below for write, i couldnt be happier. My drives are filled with games, so we will see how reliability is. Will update in the future with changes

Got it as a replacement for Fusion Drive I had in my iMac. Didn’t do much speed testing on but looks like fast enough.

Works fine. Pretty fast transfer rates