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1TB Team Group CX2 2.5" Solid State Drive + Team 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive Expired

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Newegg has 1TB Team Group CX2 Classic 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive (T253X6001T0C101) + Team 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive for $49.49. Shipping is free.

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  • Read speeds: Up to 540 MBps
  • Write speeds: Up to 490 MBps
  • SLC Caching technology

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Newegg [newegg.com] has the Team Group 1TB CX2 2.5" SATA III 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive SSD (T253X6001T0C101) for $49.49 + Bonus 16GB Flash Drive with purchase.

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Model: Team Group CX2 CLASSIC - solid state drive - 1 TB - SATA 6Gb/s

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ericesque
11-16-2022 at 04:47 AM.
11-16-2022 at 04:47 AM.
Is this good enough as a system drive for an Xbox One X ssd swap?
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JslicdealsGuest
11-16-2022 at 05:31 AM.
11-16-2022 at 05:31 AM.
Curious whether 240TBW is low compared to other SSD's? seems a bit on the lean side??
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tu1820
11-16-2022 at 08:34 AM.
11-16-2022 at 08:34 AM.
Quote from JslicdealsGuest :
Curious whether 240TBW is low compared to other SSD's? seems a bit on the lean side??
Low on paper. But unless you have very specific very disk intensive tasks to do, you will be very unlikely to ever get close to that during a reasonable life span of this drive. However, I personally use these sort of as a quality/longevity indicator.
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Andrepartthree
11-16-2022 at 09:21 AM.
11-16-2022 at 09:21 AM.
thanks for posting this OP Smilie

I know some people might be chuckling at team group's "generous" offer of a free usb 2.0 , 16 GB drive given most people are defaulting the the usb 3.0 speed drives but strangely enough there's actually a use for these ! For example as I found out recently when doing a usb flash bios on motherboards that support this, you actually want a usb 2.0 drive ...

Team group drives have worked out well for me before I started reading reports about how you're better off with say a crucial MX brand drive for your windows drive and even then they still worked out great as a secondary drive for say installing games on (and honestly they worked out just fine for the years I used them as a Windows drive before I found out the Crucial MX's were a better option given my budget )
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MWink
11-16-2022 at 09:58 AM.
11-16-2022 at 09:58 AM.
Quote from Andrepartthree :
I know some people might be chuckling at team group's "generous" offer of a free usb 2.0 , 16 GB drive given most people are defaulting the the usb 3.0 speed drives but strangely enough there's actually a use for these ! For example as I found out recently when doing a usb flash bios on motherboards that support this, you actually want a usb 2.0 drive ...
I'm curious about your claim. Why do you want a USB 2.0 drive for a BIOS flash? I've never had an issue using USB 3.0 drives to flash my Gigabyte board.

I do agree that there are uses for small drives (USB 2.0 or otherwise). They're good for bootable utilities, live operating systems, and installers. That said, the USB 2.0 Team Group drives I've used are utter garbage. Sequential write speeds topped out around 6-8MB/s. Random write speeds are terrible. Sequential reads are 25MB/s and random reads are a decent 2-4MB/s. The bigger concern was that one randomly disconnected and became corrupted the second time I used it. It was not a very impressive introduction to Team Group products. On the flip side, I also picked up a very cheap ADATA MicroSD card and was quite impressed by its speeds.
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Andrepartthree
11-16-2022 at 10:57 AM.
11-16-2022 at 10:57 AM.
Quote from MWink :
I'm curious about your claim. Why do you want a USB 2.0 drive for a BIOS flash? I've never had an issue using USB 3.0 drives to flash my Gigabyte board.

I do agree that there are uses for small drives (USB 2.0 or otherwise). They're good for bootable utilities, live operating systems, and installers. That said, the USB 2.0 Team Group drives I've used are utter garbage. Sequential write speeds topped out around 6-8MB/s. Random write speeds are terrible. Sequential reads are 25MB/s and random reads are a decent 2-4MB/s. The bigger concern was that one randomly disconnected and became corrupted the second time I used it. It was not a very impressive introduction to Team Group products. On the flip side, I also picked up a very cheap ADATA MicroSD card and was quite impressed by its speeds.
Oh crap I didn't know the teamgroup drives were so bad ! Thanks for pointing that out !

And it's possible I'm generalizing way too much Smilie .. I was going off this

https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is...sh-button/

and took them at their word and my usb 2.0 flash drive worked to do a usb flash bios upgrade on my asus motherboard ... that and there's been some rare instances where I'll say download a bootable program onto a usb 2.0 drive and it wrecks the drive somehow and can't use the drive after though it could be due to me using PNY drives Stick Out Tongue

I ordered a few usb 2.0 drives as "throwaway drives" to say load files on and give to friends if necessary, with the usb 2.0's being so cheap that it didn't matter if I never got it back or they lost it Stick Out Tongue .. the brand I bought was PNY which absolutely is not the greatest brand you get what you pay for Smilie .. fortunately amazon was really good about letting me swap out the couple of defective ones I got for good ones , it was the november-december holiday shopping season so I was going to the ups store for the inevitable return of items that comes with that anyways Stick Out Tongue ..
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11-16-2022 at 01:29 PM.
11-16-2022 at 01:29 PM.
Good use for plex cache drive?
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Grassmudhorse
11-16-2022 at 01:35 PM.
11-16-2022 at 01:35 PM.
Quote from Narutaki99 :
Good use for plex cache drive?

No dram. No buy at this price
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11-16-2022 at 05:12 PM.
11-16-2022 at 05:12 PM.
Quote from Andrepartthree :
Oh crap I didn't know the teamgroup drives were so bad ! Thanks for pointing that out !

And it's possible I'm generalizing way too much Smilie .. I was going off this

https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is...sh-button/

and took them at their word and my usb 2.0 flash drive worked to do a usb flash bios upgrade on my asus motherboard ... that and there's been some rare instances where I'll say download a bootable program onto a usb 2.0 drive and it wrecks the drive somehow and can't use the drive after though it could be due to me using PNY drives Stick Out Tongue

I ordered a few usb 2.0 drives as "throwaway drives" to say load files on and give to friends if necessary, with the usb 2.0's being so cheap that it didn't matter if I never got it back or they lost it Stick Out Tongue .. the brand I bought was PNY which absolutely is not the greatest brand you get what you pay for Smilie .. fortunately amazon was really good about letting me swap out the couple of defective ones I got for good ones , it was the november-december holiday shopping season so I was going to the ups store for the inevitable return of items that comes with that anyways Stick Out Tongue ..
Thanks for the link. I have not encountered that feature, so I can't say whether it's accurate or not. However, I am a bit skeptical of some of the things mentioned there. Anyway, BIOS update procedures tend to vary a lot, from brand to brand, if not board to board.

You mentioned a few instances of bootable programs wrecking flash drives. How exactly does it wreck them? Some people incorrectly assume that a flash drive/card has been ruined because Windows will refuse to format it after being modified in certain ways (common with bootable utilities). You may need to use a third-party utility to wipe the drive/card and give it a partition table that Windows will tolerate. While obviously not its primary purpose, the Raspberry Pi Imager works well for this. Where it says "choose OS" scroll down to "Erase (format card as FAT32)". Then for "choose storage" select the drive you want to wipe. Finally, say "write". It should only take a few seconds. I'm sure there are plenty of other utilities that can do this. Many Linux variants even come with a USB Stick Formatter. I can't be sure that this would solve your problem but it's a possibility.
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Andrepartthree
11-16-2022 at 07:24 PM.
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thank you so much for that I'm definitely going to have to keep that in mind when I feel like I've "wrecked" my usb drive Smilie .. and yes you hit the nail on the head, couldn't format the drive in that one situation I mentioned and assumed the drive was wrecked and useless .. I do have a vague memory of stubbornly trying to save the drive despite it being so cheap Stick Out Tongue and using various "format your usb drive" type programs found online with no luck .. maybe it was a bad usb drive to begin with .
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11-17-2022 at 06:06 AM.
11-17-2022 at 06:06 AM.
Quote from MWink :
I'm curious about your claim. Why do you want a USB 2.0 drive for a BIOS flash? I've never had an issue using USB 3.0 drives to flash my Gigabyte board.

I do agree that there are uses for small drives (USB 2.0 or otherwise). They're good for bootable utilities, live operating systems, and installers. That said, the USB 2.0 Team Group drives I've used are utter garbage. Sequential write speeds topped out around 6-8MB/s. Random write speeds are terrible. Sequential reads are 25MB/s and random reads are a decent 2-4MB/s. The bigger concern was that one randomly disconnected and became corrupted the second time I used it. It was not a very impressive introduction to Team Group products. On the flip side, I also picked up a very cheap ADATA MicroSD card and was quite impressed by its speeds.
There's older systems that require you to plug into the USB 2 ports for BIOS upgrades instead of one of the USB 3 ports. I think that stopped around the time 7th Gen Intel's were released. A couple Dell OptiPlex and HP EliteDesks come to mind. Ironically, some systems are fixed with.... a BIOS upgrade. lol
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11-17-2022 at 06:12 AM.
11-17-2022 at 06:12 AM.
Pick this up or wait for black friday?
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