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2TB Teamgroup AX2 3D NAND SATA III 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive

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TEAMGROUP Inc. via Amazon has 2TB Teamgroup AX2 3D NAND SATA III 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive SSD (T253A3002T0C101) on sale for $114.99. Shipping is free.

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  • This is $15 lower than the last time we saw this SSD as a Frontpage Deal in June.
  • See the forum thread for additional discussion of this SSD.
  • Rated 4.7 stars out of 5 overall based on 5,500+ reviews on Amazon
  • Includes a 3-year or TBW (Terabytes Written) limited warranty
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TEAMGROUP Inc. via Amazon has 2TB Teamgroup AX2 3D NAND SATA III 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive SSD (T253A3002T0C101) on sale for $114.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Deal Hunter PennyFound for finding this deal.

Editor's Notes

Written by oceanlake | Staff
  • This is $15 lower than the last time we saw this SSD as a Frontpage Deal in June.
  • See the forum thread for additional discussion of this SSD.
  • Rated 4.7 stars out of 5 overall based on 5,500+ reviews on Amazon
  • Includes a 3-year or TBW (Terabytes Written) limited warranty
  • 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.

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code65536
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I don't. There are a lot of factors that go into load times, and storage speed is only one of them. Depending on the game, the bottleneck may be something other than storage.

For example, if the data requires a lot of decompression or decoding, and if the CPU can only decompress data at 400 MB/s, then your bottleneck is the CPU, not the storage speed.

In reality, there aren't that many situations where you will actually notice a difference between NVMe and SATA, due to just how few things are actually bottlenecked by storage I/O.
aggronor
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SATA SSD load times are within 10%

https://www.eurogamer.net/digital...aming-7005

Yes there is a difference, but these drives are pretty affordable and the newest games aren't taking full advantage of the fastest SSDs yet.
mrvain1
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Seeing this drive image made my blood pressure go up. I purchased a Team Group internal 1TB 2.5 SATA SSD a week ago and had it working fine..... for 1 day. Never had any issues with internal or external drives in years but this one crapped out in the middle of a copy transfer. Never able to get it back online and can't use warranty since I have sensitive data on it that I can blast away before sending in. I'll never buy this brand. Just my 2 cents.

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002waifu
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not bad, but only $15 off reg. price
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aggronor
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Great drive, got it for $129.99 last month. Load times for games are almost identical to the newest NVME SSD drives.
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jk_black
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Quote from aggronor :
Great drive, got it for $129.99 last month. Load times for games are almost identical to the newest NVME SSD drives.
I doubt that
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MrSalty
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Quote from aggronor :
Great drive, got it for $129.99 last month. Load times for games are almost identical to the newest NVME SSD drives.
Depends on the nvme drive. SATA is limited to ~0.5GB/s while nvme can hit around 14X that at 7GB/s

Lot's of variables and considerations.
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Quote from jk_black :
I doubt that
SATA SSD load times are within 10%

https://www.eurogamer.net/digital...aming-7005

Yes there is a difference, but these drives are pretty affordable and the newest games aren't taking full advantage of the fastest SSDs yet.
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Quote from MrSalty :
Depends on the nvme drive. SATA is limited to ~0.5GB/s while nvme can hit around 14X that at 7GB/s

Lot's of variables and considerations.
Spec wise yes, but real world load times are nowhere near 14x faster. See the link I posted, it's not this exact drive but gives you an idea for what I mean.

This is useful as an inexpensive second drive that still is still plenty fast enough for me for the games that I play.
Last edited by aggronor July 13, 2022 at 11:21 PM.
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Quote from jk_black :
I doubt that
I don't. There are a lot of factors that go into load times, and storage speed is only one of them. Depending on the game, the bottleneck may be something other than storage.

For example, if the data requires a lot of decompression or decoding, and if the CPU can only decompress data at 400 MB/s, then your bottleneck is the CPU, not the storage speed.

In reality, there aren't that many situations where you will actually notice a difference between NVMe and SATA, due to just how few things are actually bottlenecked by storage I/O.
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Quote from jk_black :
I doubt that
Look up sata SSD vs nvme SSD side by side load times on YouTube, there's tons of videos out there and they'll all show sata SSDs performing not too far behind nvme drives with regards to load times. That's for both games and getting into windows during boot up too. For most users, the only spot they'll see huge differences is if they're doing drive to drive read/writes, such as copying huge files over from one ssd to another.
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OrGoN3
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You won't see huge differences until games start using Direct Storage, or whatever they're calling DMA these days.
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awdrifter
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Quote from MrSalty :
Depends on the nvme drive. SATA is limited to ~0.5GB/s while nvme can hit around 14X that at 7GB/s

Lot's of variables and considerations.
Too bad SATA forum gave up on making SATA4.
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FabulousStranger526
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Quote from awdrifter :
Too bad SATA forum gave up on making SATA4.
Given that the protocol was originally intended for HDDs, which haven't even saturated SATA2, I doubt we'll ever see SATA4
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Any known reliability issues?
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darklay
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Been waiting for 2TB of SSD to reach $100 and decided this is close enough.

Picked this up as an internal backup drive, don't need remotely good performance, just don't want a mechanical drive. I've got about 500GB of photos of my kids (a constantly growing number). Everything is on an internal SSD on my desktop and backed up to google photos (we have a 2TB account). I'm going to put this in my desktop and mirror my photos onto it, I feel more comfortable with a cheap SSD than pretty much any HDD, and I only have 2.5" bays in my Node 202 case.
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Tbl5143
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Quote from awdrifter :
Too bad SATA forum gave up on making SATA4.
Thank goodness. The NVME protocol is very simple, but highly effective and gets the job done well. SATA is a gigantic mess, very difficult to implement and requires a lot more unnecessary overhead by the operating system.

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Quote from JayW7752 :
Any known reliability issues?
Seeing this drive image made my blood pressure go up. I purchased a Team Group internal 1TB 2.5 SATA SSD a week ago and had it working fine..... for 1 day. Never had any issues with internal or external drives in years but this one crapped out in the middle of a copy transfer. Never able to get it back online and can't use warranty since I have sensitive data on it that I can blast away before sending in. I'll never buy this brand. Just my 2 cents.
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