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expiredDylanR22 posted Aug 23, 2022 11:19 PM
2TB Teamgroup EX2 Elite 3D NAND TLC 2.5" SATA III Internal SSD
$111
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TEAMGROUP Inc. via Amazon has 2TB Teamgroup EX2 Elite 3D NAND TLC 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (T253E2002T0C101) on sale for $110.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member DylanR22 for finding this deal.
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Thanks to community member DylanR22 for finding this deal.
Product Details:
- 550MB/s read speed and 520MB/s write speed
- EX2 solid state drive is 4 times faster than the traditional hard drive
- 1,600TBW
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- This price is $25 lower (18% savings) than the list price.
- About this product:
- This SSD has received an average rating of 4.7 stars out of 5 based on over 5,800 Amazon customer reviews.
- Warranty: 3-year or TBW (Terabytes Written) limited warranty.
- About this store:
- Amazon offers free returns for this item. You can return the item for any reason in new and unused condition: no shipping charges.
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TEAMGROUP Inc. via Amazon has 2TB Teamgroup EX2 Elite 3D NAND TLC 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (T253E2002T0C101) on sale for $110.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member DylanR22 for finding this deal.
Product Details:
Thanks to community member DylanR22 for finding this deal.
Product Details:
- 550MB/s read speed and 520MB/s write speed
- EX2 solid state drive is 4 times faster than the traditional hard drive
- 1,600TBW
Editor's Notes
Written by oceanlake- About this deal:
- This price is $25 lower (18% savings) than the list price.
- About this product:
- This SSD has received an average rating of 4.7 stars out of 5 based on over 5,800 Amazon customer reviews.
- Warranty: 3-year or TBW (Terabytes Written) limited warranty.
- About this store:
- Amazon offers free returns for this item. You can return the item for any reason in new and unused condition: no shipping charges.
- 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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This is a very budget-oriented SSD, and for $110, as long as you know what you're getting, it's a pretty good value. From your link, it says the SLC cache runs out after 358GB of sequential writing, which most people don't do (mostly professional uses), and recovers 100GB after 30 seconds of idle. That shrinks after the drive gets filled, but most users using it as storage/game library shouldn't notice.
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" Team Group's EX2 is a low-cost SATA SSD that's great for light work but is outpaced by the slowest of HDDs in sustained write workloads."
The 2TB is I believe QLC not TLC as in the post.
https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...ssd-review [tomshardware.com]
" Team Group's EX2 is a low-cost SATA SSD that's great for light work but is outpaced by the slowest of HDDs in sustained write workloads."
The 2TB is I believe QLC not TLC as in the post.
This is a very budget-oriented SSD, and for $110, as long as you know what you're getting, it's a pretty good value. From your link, it says the SLC cache runs out after 358GB of sequential writing, which most people don't do (mostly professional uses), and recovers 100GB after 30 seconds of idle. That shrinks after the drive gets filled, but most users using it as storage/game library shouldn't notice.
This is a very budget-oriented SSD, and for $110, as long as you know what you're getting, it's a pretty good value. From your link, it says the SLC cache runs out after 358GB of sequential writing, which most people don't do (mostly professional uses), and recovers 100GB after 30 seconds of idle. That shrinks after the drive gets filled, but most users using it as storage/game library shouldn't notice.
This is a very budget-oriented SSD, and for $110, as long as you know what you're getting, it's a pretty good value. From your link, it says the SLC cache runs out after 358GB of sequential writing, which most people don't do (mostly professional uses), and recovers 100GB after 30 seconds of idle. That shrinks after the drive gets filled, but most users using it as storage/game library shouldn't notice.
https://docs.google.com/spreadshe...uuQ
Team does seem to replace things under the hood like controllers for example.
The problem with this SSD is really the poor low performance dramless controller which contributes to high latency that affects a number of things. It compensates by providing a larger SLC cache to delay sustained write slowdown. But the mixed usage is also not great because of the dramless design and the high latency.
So, one ought to consider two different things (the shilling mixes up the two):
1. Is this a good replacement for a HDD? Depends. If you are upgrading a single SATA drive bay then any SSD would help.
2. Is this a good choice amongst available SATA SSDs? Here is where the lowest cost can lead to a poor choice. Some of the high storage media applications don't need better than what HDDs provide for performance which are a lot more cost effective. Other high storage applications are better served by a SSD with dram for mixed use and better controller with the cost difference marginal over its lifetime.
This will bite when you want to clone your existing drive or want to do a backup into it from another drive etc., that can take it far beyond its SLC cache.
Have no problem with people making informed decisions but the Team products get shilled here with misinformation and glossing over of relevant factors. It would be better if SD didn't ban posts of deals on Silicon Power their main value competitor which often has better products for similar pricing.
So I posted the review that gives the whole picture.
Personally, I think any dramless SATA drive is crap. They served a purpose when SSDs were very expensive and these cost cutting measures made it even reachable. That is no longer true.
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https://www.tomshardwar
" Team Group's EX2 is a low-cost SATA SSD that's great for light work but is outpaced by the slowest of HDDs in sustained write workloads."
The 2TB is I believe QLC not TLC as in the post.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
https://docs.google.com/spreadshe...uuQ
Team does seem to replace things under the hood like controllers for example.
The problem with this SSD is really the poor low performance dramless controller which contributes to high latency that affects a number of things. It compensates by providing a larger SLC cache to delay sustained write slowdown. But the mixed usage is also not great because of the dramless design and the high latency.
So, one ought to consider two different things (the shilling mixes up the two):
1. Is this a good replacement for a HDD? Depends. If you are upgrading a single SATA drive bay then any SSD would help.
2. Is this a good choice amongst available SATA SSDs? Here is where the lowest cost can lead to a poor choice. Some of the high storage media applications don't need better than what HDDs provide for performance which are a lot more cost effective. Other high storage applications are better served by a SSD with dram for mixed use and better controller with the cost difference marginal over its lifetime.
This will bite when you want to clone your existing drive or want to do a backup into it from another drive etc., that can take it far beyond its SLC cache.
Have no problem with people making informed decisions but the Team products get shilled here with misinformation and glossing over of relevant factors. It would be better if SD didn't ban posts of deals on Silicon Power their main value competitor which often has better products for similar pricing.
So I posted the review that gives the whole picture.
Personally, I think any dramless SATA drive is crap. They served a purpose when SSDs were very expensive and these cost cutting measures made it even reachable. That is no longer true.
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