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2TB TeamGroup CARDEA A440 NVMe PCIe Gen4 x4 SSD w/ Graphene & Aluminum Heatsink

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Newegg also has 2TB TeamGroup CARDEA A440 NVMe PCIe Gen4 x4 M.2 2280 Internal SSD w/ Graphene & Aluminum Heatsink (TM8FPZ002T0C327) on sale for $115.99. Shipping is free.

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Product Description / Features:
  • Supports the PCIe Gen4 x4 specification and the latest NVMe standard
  • Read/write speed up to 7,000/5,500 MB/s.
  • Includes a 5-year or TBW (Terabytes Written) limited warranty
  • Please note that this product (CARDEA A440) comes with two heat sinks. One is a Graphene heat sink (with 3.7mm height) that could be fit in the PS5 SSD slot. Another one is an Aluminum heat sink (with 12.9mm height) that could install in the PS5 SSD slot without the slot's lid.

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TEAMGROUP Inc. via Amazon has 2TB TeamGroup CARDEA A440 NVMe PCIe Gen4 x4 M.2 2280 Internal SSD w/ Graphene & Aluminum Heatsink (TM8FPZ002T0C327) on sale for $115.99Shipping is free.

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TEAMGROUP Inc via Amazon [amazon.com] has 2TB TEAMGROUP T-Force CARDEA A440 Graphene & Aluminum Heatsink (PS5 Compatible) on sale for $115.99. Shipping is free. NLA

Newegg [newegg.com] also has 2TB TEAMGROUP T-Force CARDEA A440 Graphene & Aluminum Heatsink (PS5 Compatible) on sale for $115.99. Shipping is free.


Additional information from product page:
  • A440 PCIe 4.0 SSD delivers awesome performance at lightning speeds with reading and writing up to 7,000/5,500 MB/s. Using Phison E18 controller.
  • Addresses the high temperatures generated by high-speed performance
  • Supports the PCIe Gen4 x4 specification and the latest NVMe standard
  • Warranty: 5-year or TBW (Terabytes Written) limited warranty. Free Technical Support and Customer Service on TEAMGROUP's official website. The definition and conditions of TBW are based on the JEDEC standard.
  • According to the SSD installation guide of SONY PlayStation 5, TEAMGROUP T-FORCE CARDEA A440 1TB/ 2TB are meet the requirement with the interface, capacity, sequential read speed, and so on. Please note that this product (CARDEA A440) comes with two heat sinks. One is a Graphene heat sink (with 3.7mm height) that could be fit in the PS5 SSD slot. Another one is an Aluminum heat sink (with 12.9mm height) that could install in the PS5 SSD slot without the slot's lid.
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Model: TEAMGROUP T-Force CARDEA A440 Graphene & Aluminum Heatsink 2TB with DRAM SLC Cache 3D NAND TLC NVMe PCIe Gen4 x4 M.2 2280 Internal SSD Read/Write 7,000/6,900 MB/s TM8FPZ002T0C327, Works with PS5

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In what game are you left behind due to having a slightly slower SSD?
With any NVME drive, the write speed has almost nothing to do with your online ability to "keep up with your team".

That would be CPU, RAM and GPU.
I appreciate that you're trying to help, but I think you're a little bit off here. Game load times are about reading and not writing. And furthermore, 7000 MB/s is 7 GB/s; it takes 15-45 seconds to load a level, depending on the game, and you're definitely not loading 100+ GB into your RAM or GPU memory during that time. Your SSD will affect game load times, but given that only 1-2 seconds of that load time are actually coming from the drive, speeding up the drive can only do so much.

See this review [techspot.com] for a good comparison. Scroll down to game load times. Notice that all the SSDs are within a second or two of each other, but the HDD which has ~100 MB/s reads take much longer? Also notice that the NVME drives are clearly faster than the SATA SSDs, which also have their read speeds capped by the SATA interface.

So in summary, it's read performance that matters for load times, but once you get to Gen3 PCIe speeds, you get some really serious diminishing returns. You can spend 2X as much, but you'll load in 15.1 seconds instead of 15.4 seconds. How much is your gaming time worth? Smilie

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05-08-2023 at 05:19 PM.
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Is it worth the savings versus a Samsung 880 for $30 more?
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05-08-2023 at 06:27 PM.
05-08-2023 at 06:27 PM.
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Is it worth the savings versus a Samsung 880 for $30 more?

I will choose Samsung all the way.
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05-08-2023 at 07:43 PM.

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05-08-2023 at 07:43 PM.
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I personally would go with Samsung. The "write up to 7,000" is not definite for me. If it guaranteed that it's 6,000 or above than i would. And you know what they say, "If you want quality.....". Lol 😂 Besides when you gaming you want to keep up with your team and members you play online with. Having a slow write can drag you. Unless you play a lot of solo games.

In what game are you left behind due to having a slightly slower SSD?
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05-08-2023 at 07:54 PM.
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I personally would go with Samsung. The "write up to 7,000" is not definite for me. If it guaranteed that it's 6,000 or above than i would. And you know what they say, "If you want quality.....". Lol 😂 Besides when you gaming you want to keep up with your team and members you play online with. Having a slow write can drag you. Unless you play a lot of solo games.

With any NVME drive, the write speed has almost nothing to do with your online ability to "keep up with your team".

That would be CPU, RAM and GPU.
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05-08-2023 at 09:24 PM.
05-08-2023 at 09:24 PM.
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Don't buy Samsung unless you're fine with data loss
I have had many SSDs over the years. While I haven't gone with many off brand ones, the only 2 that have failed are Samsung enterprise drives. One of them loses data with no errors and still reports in good health.
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I want to make a general comment here for people who just want to know if its quality is worth buying because it's not a big known company name. An answer without diving deep into the nuances of various Gen 4 NVMe's.

Yes.

One of the top 3 generally more value focused brands, plus we are at a point on Gen 4 where you basically have to try to cheap out so much you make a bad drive, it's pretty much equally likely to get bad firmware on a well known brand as it is to get a bad drive from a brand like Teamgroup. We see all the components they are using from other companies and they are solid pairings. With NVMe's & RAM it's really just a handful of companies that everyone buys from to put their combinations together. So don't worry it doesn't say Samsung, Western Digital (which is what I own, SN770, & love it), Corsair, etc. Heck, the Kingston NV2 is a dice roll on possibly getting one of the worst Gen 4 drives on the market.

And yes there are still tiers, an extra $30-40 can get you an editors choice tier drive. So that's always your call.

And for the PS5 crowd, having two different cooling options is a nice option.
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Quote from arcace1 :
I have had many SSDs over the years. While I haven't gone with many off brand ones, the only 2 that have failed are Samsung enterprise drives. One of them loses data with no errors and still reports in good health.
I think the poster was talking about the recent issues with the Samsung 980s, and I think 990s, where they were bricking or severely degrading after writing an arbitrary amount of data (2 TB for one person), which was cause by a firmware issue. There is a fix for the firmware however that fix would need to be applied manually.

https://www.pcgamer.com/an-error-...t-now-tbh/

https://www.tomshardware.com/news...rmware-fix
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I personally would go with Samsung. The "write up to 7,000" is not definite for me. If it guaranteed that it's 6,000 or above than i would. And you know what they say, "If you want quality.....". Lol 😂 Besides when you gaming you want to keep up with your team and members you play online with. Having a slow write can drag you. Unless you play a lot of solo games.

Lol. Feel free to elaborate. What game are you being limited by with even the "slowest" nvme?
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05-09-2023 at 09:41 AM.
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Is it worth the savings versus a Samsung 880 for $30 more?
If this is for gaming, then yes. If it's for PS5, then definitely yes. Honestly, if this is for PC gaming or just normal PC use, I would spend even less and get something with PCIe3 like the Intel 670p that has been ~$75 for this capacity a few times recently.

Here's a review [tomshardware.com] from Tom's Hardware. There's such a small difference in real-world performance between low-end PCIe3 drives and high-end PCIe4 drives, so the difference between two faster PCIe4 drives is going to be completely unnoticeable for all but a tiny slice of computer users.
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Quote from MysticDragon :
I personally would go with Samsung. The "write up to 7,000" is not definite for me. If it guaranteed that it's 6,000 or above than i would. And you know what they say, "If you want quality.....". Lol Besides when you gaming you want to keep up with your team and members you play online with. Having a slow write can drag you. Unless you play a lot of solo games.
I appreciate that you're trying to help, but I think you're a little bit off here. Game load times are about reading and not writing. And furthermore, 7000 MB/s is 7 GB/s; it takes 15-45 seconds to load a level, depending on the game, and you're definitely not loading 100+ GB into your RAM or GPU memory during that time. Your SSD will affect game load times, but given that only 1-2 seconds of that load time are actually coming from the drive, speeding up the drive can only do so much.

See this review [techspot.com] for a good comparison. Scroll down to game load times. Notice that all the SSDs are within a second or two of each other, but the HDD which has ~100 MB/s reads take much longer? Also notice that the NVME drives are clearly faster than the SATA SSDs, which also have their read speeds capped by the SATA interface.

So in summary, it's read performance that matters for load times, but once you get to Gen3 PCIe speeds, you get some really serious diminishing returns. You can spend 2X as much, but you'll load in 15.1 seconds instead of 15.4 seconds. How much is your gaming time worth? Smilie
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If this is for gaming, then yes. If it's for PS5, then definitely yes. Honestly, if this is for PC gaming or just normal PC use, I would spend even less and get something with PCIe3 like the Intel 670p that has been ~$75 for this capacity a few times recently.

Here's a review [tomshardware.com] from Tom's Hardware. There's such a small difference in real-world performance between low-end PCIe3 drives and high-end PCIe4 drives, so the difference between two faster PCIe4 drives is going to be completely unnoticeable for all but a tiny slice of computer users.
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completely unnoticeable for all but a tiny slice of computer users
.....So 1% of the folks who will see this post, as the other 99% who ware not using this for PS5 purposes will naturally go "...but I'm special"
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