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.
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.
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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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 Works with PS5 Read/Write 7,000/6,900 MB/s TM8FPZ002T0C327
Manufacturer:
TEAMGROUP
Model Number:
A0039238
Product SKU:
B0921RKRDH
UPC:
765441055957
ASIN:
B0921RKRDH
Brand:
TEAMGROUP
Item Dimensions LxWxH:
23.622047 x 23.622047 x 33.464565 Inches
Item Weight:
0.12 Pounds
Item model number:
A0039238
Manufacturer:
TEAMGROUP
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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?
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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.
Well said! A bad NVME is rare period. However with data, is a fail rate of 0.3 v 0.6 worth $30 more? Perhaps. However ,there aren't enough statistics to know which they are yet for these gen 4.
Look at sata 2.5 ssd AFR and popular brands like crucial have higher average fail rates, though minimal still.
If a drive doesn't fail in first few days, it will last for a few years. After year 2-4 is where AFR tend to spike across all models.
In the end, whether be 0.3% chance of even 1%, both are too high to risk losing data you don't want to lose. Backups backups backups folks!
This is the best deal around for a ps5 upgrade and it's not close. The next best is the pny and it's $30 more when you add the Heatsink cover. In for one and thanks.
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.
As a computer engineer, you're spot on. Computer Architecture also suggests that you get an NVME with high TBW or else you can get stuck in games while your teammates keep on writing onto their drives...
Would you see a noticeable difference in game load times going from a 2200 mb/s to this?
Generally no. Most games will prefetch assets before they are needed. Even if a game is badly designed, Windows should learn to prefetch the commonly used files when the game is started. Games that support directstorage would benefit some, particularly if they start leaning more on texture streaming like the PS5 does.
In what game are you left behind due to having a slightly slower SSD?
Sony recommends drives with read speeds of 5,500 or faster. In a pc, in gaming, I can't tell the difference between a gen3 drive at 3500 and my 990 pro at 7300. Transferring between two nvme drives is where you see the difference.
That price is available again on Amazon from the manufacturer.. At the $101.99 price point (heatsink included & 5yr warranty), with excellent reviews from respected sites, I just had to pull the trigger.
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That would be CPU, RAM and GPU.
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?
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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.
Well said! A bad NVME is rare period. However with data, is a fail rate of 0.3 v 0.6 worth $30 more? Perhaps. However ,there aren't enough statistics to know which they are yet for these gen 4.
Look at sata 2.5 ssd AFR and popular brands like crucial have higher average fail rates, though minimal still.
If a drive doesn't fail in first few days, it will last for a few years. After year 2-4 is where AFR tend to spike across all models.
In the end, whether be 0.3% chance of even 1%, both are too high to risk losing data you don't want to lose. Backups backups backups folks!
I've had a 1tb version of this for over a year in a usb 3.2 external and I've put it to a lot of work. Zero problems.
I've had a 2tb samsung external for 2 months, and it's dead as a doornail.
I've also had nearly zero problems with Western Digital.
Samsung isn't king anymore. They depleted their quality assurance to gain more profits.
That would be CPU, RAM and GPU.
Git gud usually helps a lot as well
As a computer engineer, you're spot on. Computer Architecture also suggests that you get an NVME with high TBW or else you can get stuck in games while your teammates keep on writing onto their drives...
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Sony recommends drives with read speeds of 5,500 or faster. In a pc, in gaming, I can't tell the difference between a gen3 drive at 3500 and my 990 pro at 7300. Transferring between two nvme drives is where you see the difference.
That price is available again on Amazon from the manufacturer.. At the $101.99 price point (heatsink included & 5yr warranty), with excellent reviews from respected sites, I just had to pull the trigger.