TeamGroup T-Force A440 Pro 2TB M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 Review – Faster than the Corsair MP600 Pro?

1 - Introduction, Unboxing, Cooler and Technical Data 2 - Controller, NAND and the Dynamic pSLC Cache 3 - Synthetic Benchmarks 4 - Application Benchmarks and Conclusion

Synthetics are a great way to really break out the big numbers once in a while. We’ll see later how well that works in real-world application benchmarks. So I’ll start with CrystalDiskMark and four different file sizes. The SSDs was not quite new at the time of the test, because I also had fill levels of plenty of 65% before deleting the data several times. Otherwise it would be pointless.

It’s good that the maximum values are still reached even after various filling actions and can thus show quite impressive numbers. Therefore, the formulation with the “up to” is also quite correct here. But it is also a fact that especially the read rates are similar to the Corsair MP600 PRO XT and also the write rates are about the same. Obviously Teamgroup used a very similar approach to Corsair for the firmware.

You can see very well that the dynamic pSLC does exactly what it is supposed to, mind you with a 60% filled SSD. The nice thing about the 2 TB SSD is that there is still a lot of space left and therefore you should never fill it more than 2/3 with data. A higher workload does not affect reading, only when writing the dynamic SLC will certainly reach its limits at some point. And if you do it over and over again, switching memory modules between the two methods will eventually become impossible as well.

ATTO works very similarly, although I only work with two sizes here, which ends up being the same. The limit of 7000 MB/s for reading is missed a bit, but it is still enough for an impressive result.

But what happens when you stream a video? For this purpose, the industry uses the AJA benchmark, which is in effect an interface between synthetic benchmarks and practical application. The Teamgroup T-Force A440 Pro 2TB is also convincing here, whereby you can hardly see any differences to the values of the Corsair MP600 PRO XT (set in brackets). This is still almost within the tolerance limits.

Reading is also quite fast, although you won’t reach the theoretically possible speed here either. Both SSDs are again about equally fast, feat.

We see that the comments made on the previous page about the dynamic pSLC cache and the behavior with the larger file blocks are completely true. Smaller file movements would be even faster if you leave out the overhead of the file system.