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Newegg has 1TB Team Group CX2 Classic 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (T253X6001T0C101) + Team 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive on sale for $50.99. Shipping is free.

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Newegg [newegg.com] has 1TB Team Group CX2 Classic 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive (T253X6001T0C101) + Team 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive for $47.99. Shipping is free.
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Model: Team Group CX2 CLASSIC - solid state drive - 1 TB - SATA 6Gb/s

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The CX2 and AX2 models I have contained the same SMI SM2258XT controller. The CX2 has what appears to be Micron 64L TLC NAND and the AX2 has what appears to be Hynix 64L TLC NAND.

For what it is worth, the older GX2 has the same configuration as the CX2, at least in the ones I have used.
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12-20-2022 at 08:10 PM.
12-20-2022 at 08:10 PM.
Quote from jmxi :
Is this a good drive for additional xbox storage?

Using an external USB adapter, can put XB1 games on it to play or store series X|S titles but cannot play X|S titles from this drive, would need to transfer them to local storage first.
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12-20-2022 at 10:35 PM.
12-20-2022 at 10:35 PM.
Quote from JslicdealsGuest :
Not sure I'd spend $50 on such low TBW raring (250+). Rather invest another $20 to achieve 450-500TBW
According to their page its rated for 800TBW for the 1TB drive, 1,600TBW for the 2TB which lines up with the endurance of TLC drives of those sizes.
https://www.teamgroupinc.com/en/product/cx2
https://www.teamgroupinc.com/en/product/ex2
The 2TB CX2 is currently at $88.99 at newegg, it's a better cost per TB, but instead I think the EX 2 elite might be better for $91.99 for the extra marginal speed upgrade to Read up tp 550MB/s Write 520MB/s.

I've been tempted to get the 2TB EX2 for a gaming drive, but whenever these deals come up I can't recall having someone come back and say hey these drives are legit, they will last. I'm more worried about longevity than their TBW because its acceptable. It's certainly better than some of the other deals like the crucial mx500 4TB ssd where even at 4TB it squeaks 360TBW with its qlc, whereas something like the samsung 870/860 evo will do 2,400TBW, but at a higher cost.
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12-20-2022 at 11:15 PM.
12-20-2022 at 11:15 PM.
This was just $48. Was that this deal and it went up or was it another deal?

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12-21-2022 at 05:26 AM.
12-21-2022 at 05:26 AM.
The price seems to have gone down too $44.99!
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12-21-2022 at 05:59 AM.
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This is a legitimate question: people are constantly ripping on the cheap ssds because of their speed, lack of dram, etc. But does it really matter that much? I run games directly off a seagate 5400 rpm drive over usb 3.0 with no issue. How fast do you really need a drive to be?
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12-21-2022 at 06:25 AM.
12-21-2022 at 06:25 AM.
Quote from bobbylight :
What kind of super old aio has a 3.5 in it? Must be a thick boy. To be honest you can just dangle an SSD in a 3.5 slot to no ill effect.
Well, yeah, the ThinkCentre AIO is about 10 yrs old. But it's doing OK, so why junk it?
I put in a msata ssd for OS and boot dirve and HDD is for storage, But now the msata ssd (about 5yrs old) have become very slow (it that normal?!).
So, I am looking to replace to HDD with a SSD and have the OS and storage all in it...
Thanks for ideas!
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12-21-2022 at 08:40 AM.
12-21-2022 at 08:40 AM.
Good for ps4? it won't die on me after a year or two will it?
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12-21-2022 at 03:29 PM.
12-21-2022 at 03:29 PM.
Quote from Bentley01832 :
According to their page its rated for 800TBW for the 1TB drive, 1,600TBW for the 2TB which lines up with the endurance of TLC drives of those sizes.
https://www.teamgroupinc.com/en/product/cx2
https://www.teamgroupinc.com/en/product/ex2
The 2TB CX2 is currently at $88.99 at newegg, it's a better cost per TB, but instead I think the EX 2 elite might be better for $91.99 for the extra marginal speed upgrade to Read up tp 550MB/s Write 520MB/s.

I've been tempted to get the 2TB EX2 for a gaming drive, but whenever these deals come up I can't recall having someone come back and say hey these drives are legit, they will last. I'm more worried about longevity than their TBW because its acceptable. It's certainly better than some of the other deals like the crucial mx500 4TB ssd where even at 4TB it squeaks 360TBW with its qlc, whereas something like the samsung 870/860 evo will do 2,400TBW, but at a higher cost.
I'm more concerned about longevity too. People are putting WAY too much faith in these TBW numbers. The ones we're seeing are what the company will cover under warranty. This is not a great indicator of how long the drive will actually last. A low tier company like Team Group can put a higher number because they know that few people will bother to go through the trouble of an RMA with them. Better companies, like Samsung and Crucial/Micron know they're more likely to have to stand behind their drives.

By the way, your numbers are wrong. The 4TB Crucial MX500 is warranted for 1000TB. 360TB is for the 1TB model. Also, I have yet to see confirmation of a QLC MX500, though there are rumors.
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12-21-2022 at 08:43 PM.
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Quote from MWink :
I'm more concerned about longevity too. People are putting WAY too much faith in these TBW numbers. The ones we're seeing are what the company will cover under warranty. This is not a great indicator of how long the drive will actually last. A low tier company like Team Group can put a higher number because they know that few people will bother to go through the trouble of an RMA with them. Better companies, like Samsung and Crucial/Micron know they're more likely to have to stand behind their drives.

By the way, your numbers are wrong. The 4TB Crucial MX500 is warranted for 1000TB. 360TB is for the 1TB model. Also, I have yet to see confirmation of a QLC MX500, though there are rumors.
You are right, I messed up on the endurance of the mx500, looks like the Best Buy site was wrong. So far I've had luck with Samsung, but I'd like to find a cheap alternative for a game drive since pretty much anything is better performing than a mechanical drive, and the difference between the fastest and the average ssd load times is insignificant.
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12-21-2022 at 08:45 PM.
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Quote from midgrade :
This is a legitimate question: people are constantly ripping on the cheap ssds because of their speed, lack of dram, etc. But does it really matter that much? I run games directly off a seagate 5400 rpm drive over usb 3.0 with no issue. How fast do you really need a drive to be?
Probably depends on a few things. I have used high end workstation laptops with NVMe drives for years. They typically benchmark as several times faster than these 2.5" SATA drives. In day to day usage, though, I usuallycan't tell much difference between those and my personal laptop with an MX500. Windows boot times are just a few seconds either way. Most apps open so fast that any difference isn't noticable.

Where you might notice a difference is with loading times on big games, or working with media intensive applications. If you editing video for instance, you'll want a more capable drive not just for working locally, but for transferring files between devices on a network.
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12-22-2022 at 02:59 AM.
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Quote from MWink :
I'm more concerned about longevity too. People are putting WAY too much faith in these TBW numbers. The ones we're seeing are what the company will cover under warranty. This is not a great indicator of how long the drive will actually last. A low tier company like Team Group can put a higher number because they know that few people will bother to go through the trouble of an RMA with them. Better companies, like Samsung and Crucial/Micron know they're more likely to have to stand behind their drives.

By the way, your numbers are wrong. The 4TB Crucial MX500 is warranted for 1000TB. 360TB is for the 1TB model. Also, I have yet to see confirmation of a QLC MX500, though there are rumors.
totally agree quality may vary on different batches we don't know what nand the manufacture using
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12-22-2022 at 05:20 PM.
12-22-2022 at 05:20 PM.
Quote from Bentley01832 :
You are right, I messed up on the endurance of the mx500, looks like the Best Buy site was wrong. So far I've had luck with Samsung, but I'd like to find a cheap alternative for a game drive since pretty much anything is better performing than a mechanical drive, and the difference between the fastest and the average ssd load times is insignificant.
Oh, I completely agree. Most people focus way too much on peak sequential speeds, when it will make little difference for their uses. For basic use and even gaming, a low end SATA SSD won't be substantially slower than the fastest NVMe drive. Most games are not trying to load gigabytes of data all at once. If anything, updates are likely to be slower on a low end drive. In some cases, even with small download sizes, many gigabytes of data can be written to the drive in a short period. Again, it's probably not going to be a big deal. My biggest concerns with a game drive would be capacity and reliability. Reliability, not so much because it will hold critical data but because it's inconvenient to deal with dead hardware.
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