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512GB Teamgroup AX2 3D NAND SATA 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive SSD

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TEAMGROUP Inc. via Amazon has 512GB Teamgroup AX2 3D NAND SATA 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive SSD (T253A3512G0C101) on sale for $36.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member snowbelt for finding this deal.

Note: This item is sold by TEAMGROUP Inc and fulfilled by Amazon

Specs/Key features:
  • Read/write speed up to 540/490 MB/s
  • SATA III 6Gb/s transfer interface
  • Garbage collection, wear-leveling technology, ECC, S.M.A.R.T., and TRIM functions

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  • About this deal:
    • This price is $23 lower (38% savings) than the list price.
    • Previous prices was roughly around ~$40-$42 price range
  • About this product:
    • 3-Year Warranty
  • About this store:
    • Seller at Amazon - TEAMGROUP Inc. - has a rating of 97% from over 8,000 Amazon customer ratings.
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TEAMGROUP Inc. via Amazon has 512GB Teamgroup AX2 3D NAND SATA 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive SSD (T253A3512G0C101) on sale for $36.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member snowbelt for finding this deal.

Note: This item is sold by TEAMGROUP Inc and fulfilled by Amazon

Specs/Key features:
  • Read/write speed up to 540/490 MB/s
  • SATA III 6Gb/s transfer interface
  • Garbage collection, wear-leveling technology, ECC, S.M.A.R.T., and TRIM functions

Editor's Notes

Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This price is $23 lower (38% savings) than the list price.
    • Previous prices was roughly around ~$40-$42 price range
  • About this product:
    • 3-Year Warranty
  • About this store:
    • Seller at Amazon - TEAMGROUP Inc. - has a rating of 97% from over 8,000 Amazon customer ratings.
    • Don't have Amazon Prime? Students can get a free 6-Month Amazon Prime trial with free 2-day shipping, unlimited video streaming & more.
    • If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.
  • Refer to the forum thread for additional deal discussion.

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Model: TEAMGROUP AX2 512GB 3D NAND TLC 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal Solid State Drive SSD (Read Speed up to 540 MB/s) Compatible with Laptop & PC Desktop T253A3512G0C101

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backforwardback
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Seriously, really...no one thinks anymore on this site.

Buy the teamgroup on Amazon.

Fails after 10 months.

Buy another on Amazon, return the failed one.

That is the warranty. There is no serial number on the teamgroup box.

Teamgroup gets their broken item back. You get a new one. Win Win. And you continue to buy stuff from Amazon.

Fair is Fair.

It is a 37 dollar SSD drive and not a 2000 dollar laptop. You spend more more on GAS.
AlexS2465
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I think if they're selling stuff in the USA they should have representation here including place to accept RMAs and then process them to whenever they want to send them to get fixed.
For some reason reputable companies have no problem doing so but if you like to pay 2-3x more for shipping than what you already paid for item, wait for months for it to get processed and returned to you and then cross your fingers that it doesn't fail again in a month or so then props to you and good luck, I just choose Samsung and WD for my needs instead and considering the price difference vs quality of support it makes it much more sense to me.
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What you are suggesting is called "fraud"

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Good deal for basic 512gb but in case the drive goes downhill and you are out of Amazon return window, one review said to prepare to ship out of country and wait for rma, so factor that in.
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Quote from gtsh0pp3r :
Good deal for basic 512gb but in case the drive goes downhill and you are out of Amazon return window, one review said to prepare to ship out of country and wait for rma, so factor that in.
That's what happened when one of the memory cards I got from them on Newegg failed after month and a half, Newegg told me to deal with company since it was out of return window and Teamgroup email told me to ship it to Taiwan at which point as soon as I got that email from them I tossed it into the trash and won't ever buy their junk.
P.S. and yes they tell you that shipping charges is your responsibility at which point considering the cost of international shipping it wouldn't be worth in many cases.
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Quote from wherestheanykey :
So you value timeliness over decent customer service.

Fair, but you should probably stop buying anything that doesn't come from a drive thru.

Faulting them because they're based in Taiwan is not okay.
I think if they're selling stuff in the USA they should have representation here including place to accept RMAs and then process them to whenever they want to send them to get fixed.
For some reason reputable companies have no problem doing so but if you like to pay 2-3x more for shipping than what you already paid for item, wait for months for it to get processed and returned to you and then cross your fingers that it doesn't fail again in a month or so then props to you and good luck, I just choose Samsung and WD for my needs instead and considering the price difference vs quality of support it makes it much more sense to me.
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Quote from AlexS2465 :
I think if they're selling stuff in the USA they should have representation here including place to accept RMAs and then process them to whenever they want to send them to get fixed.
For some reason reputable companies have no problem doing so but if you like to pay 2-3x more for shipping than what you already paid for item, wait for months for it to get processed and returned to you and then cross your fingers that it doesn't fail again in a month or so then props to you and good luck, I just choose Samsung and WD for my needs instead and considering the price difference vs quality of support it makes it much more sense to me.
sure but that costs more to run, having worked for a foreign manf. we did have US representation, so if things went wrong customers sent them to us, and we passed it along but the shipping costs to and from were on us. so its cheaper, less staff, phone lines, etc. plus it cuts down on RMA requests, win win for them
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no warranty on this companies devices. shipping abroad doesn't constitute as warranty .
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Quote from slvrscoobie :
sure but that costs more to run, having worked for a foreign manf. we did have US representation, so if things went wrong customers sent them to us, and we passed it along but the shipping costs to and from were on us. so its cheaper, less staff, phone lines, etc. plus it cuts down on RMA requests, win win for them

It cuts down on people wanting to buy their products. Shitty warranties are worthless warranties.

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Quote from AlexS2465 :
That's what happened when one of the memory cards I got from them on Newegg failed after month and a half, Newegg told me to deal with company since it was out of return window and Teamgroup email told me to ship it to Taiwan at which point as soon as I got that email from them I tossed it into the trash and won't ever buy their junk.
P.S. and yes they tell you that shipping charges is your responsibility at which point considering the cost of international shipping it wouldn't be worth in many cases.
Seriously, really...no one thinks anymore on this site.

Buy the teamgroup on Amazon.

Fails after 10 months.

Buy another on Amazon, return the failed one.

That is the warranty. There is no serial number on the teamgroup box.

Teamgroup gets their broken item back. You get a new one. Win Win. And you continue to buy stuff from Amazon.

Fair is Fair.

It is a 37 dollar SSD drive and not a 2000 dollar laptop. You spend more more on GAS.
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Quote from backforwardback :
Seriously, really...no one thinks anymore on this site.

Buy the teamgroup on Amazon.

Fails after 10 months.

Buy another on Amazon, return the failed one.

That is the warranty. There is no serial number on the teamgroup box.

Teamgroup gets their broken item back. You get a new one. Win Win. And you continue to buy stuff from Amazon.

Fair is Fair.

It is a 37 dollar SSD drive and not a 2000 dollar laptop. You spend more more on GAS.
What you are suggesting is called "fraud"
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Any suggestions for a smaller and cheaper SSD? I just need one that is 240gb for a non-important drive.
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Quote from wherestheanykey :
So you value timeliness over decent customer service.

Fair, but you should probably stop buying anything that doesn't come from a drive thru.

Faulting them because they're based in Taiwan is not okay.
this is it. this is the dumbest post i've seen on slickdeals in the decade+ that i've used this site. if you sell junk in the US and offer a "warranty", you should have US based RMA department. you can contract a 3rd party to work as a proxy at a relatively low cost if you don't want to open an office here

i don't know if you are trying to make this into a race thing with your comment about it being not ok to hate a Taiwanese company, but your comment is dumb. no one hates Taiwanese companies because like 90% of the computer hardware we buy is made by Taiwanese companies, but all the other Taiwanese companies have RMA departments here in the US.
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Quote from wherestheanykey :
So you value timeliness over decent customer service.

Fair, but you should probably stop buying anything that doesn't come from a drive thru.

Faulting them because they're based in Taiwan is not okay.
Thanks - dumbest thing I've read so far today, but the day is young!

Seriously - do you have any idea how much International shipping costs? The issue is that they manage to get their products here to sell to us, but then expect that we are going to ship it to Taiwan for service, at a cost that at least equals what was paid, and could be far more than the cost of the item. That isn't "customer service" that's a BS warranty not worth the paper it's printed on.
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Quote from gtsh0pp3r :
Good deal for basic 512gb but in case the drive goes downhill and you are out of Amazon return window, one review said to prepare to ship out of country and wait for rma, so factor that in.
I just RMA'd a different model of TeamGroup SSD, it wasn't too bad, but you can expect the return/replacement to take about 2-3 weeks mostly shipping time. I shipped it to a TeamGroup USA office and the replacement shipped from Tiawan to a TeamGroup USA office and it was re-shipped to me. I am pretty sure it originated in Tiawan. It seemed like the shipping wouldn't be economical for the company, but I wasn't in a hurry and could live with shipping times.

The good news was that the RMA approval process was painless, it was done via e-mail
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Quote from AlexS2465 :
I think if they're selling stuff in the USA they should have representation here including place to accept RMAs and then process them to whenever they want to send them to get fixed.
For some reason reputable companies have no problem doing so but if you like to pay 2-3x more for shipping than what you already paid for item, wait for months for it to get processed and returned to you and then cross your fingers that it doesn't fail again in a month or so then props to you and good luck, I just choose Samsung and WD for my needs instead and considering the price difference vs quality of support it makes it much more sense to me.
I just RMA'd a different TG SSD and I shipped it to a TG CA address. The replacement did ship from Tiawan. I wasn't in a hurry, I think the whole process took 2-3 weeks.

The good news was that getting the RMA approved was painless.
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Seems like the 1TB versions have better bang/buck, or rather $/GB.

For those faulting the international warranty service. You pay more for another brand, you are paying for the warranty as insurance. You'd be paying $10-20 for the very small chance that you won't have to buy a new drive entirely somewhere down the line.

Average failure rate is about 1% for SSDs, but you're paying an extra 20-30% for the domestic warranty. Either way, your data is fuct if your SSD fails, warranty or not. So why not just buy a new drive at a cheaper price (or an upgrade) in the future instead of spending more money now in case of failure for CONVENIENCE of replacement with same product (with no choice of upgrade).
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