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Team Group Launches the T-Force GC PRO Gen 5 SSD

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Team Group today introduced the T-Force GC PRO, its new performance-segment M.2 NVMe Gen 5 SSD. The new T-Force GC PRO is not to be confused with the T-Force GE PRO that Team Group launched in January 2024, although the two appear almost identical. The newer GC PRO is powered by the same InnoGrit "Tacoma" IG5666 controller as the GE PRO, but with slightly toned down speeds.

The GC PRO comes in 2 TB and 4 TB capacity variants, with maximum sequential speeds of 12,500 MB/s reads, with 11,000 MB/s writes. For comparison, the flagship GE PRO does 14,000 MB/s max sequential reads, albeit with the same 11,000 MB/s max sequential writes. The GC PRO is hence designed to stike a slightly lower price point which could see it square off against pre-Max14um Phison-powered SSD models. Both the 2 TB and 4 TB models offer identical sequential transfer speeds, but differ with endurance—1,200 TBW and 2,400 TBW, respectively. Although a heatsink is recommended by the manufacturer, the drive comes with a graphene-coated metal-foil heatspreader. The company didn't reveal pricing, the drives are backed by 5-year warranties.



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What is the full spec wise difference between GC PRO and GE PRO ??

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What is the full spec wise difference between GC PRO and GE PRO ??
I'm wondering how they calculated the slightly lower endurance. Both use the same Micron flash chips, most probably. Less overprovisioning due to lower bin chips with more bad blocks?
 
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That "graphene coated metal foil" can do nothing to tame the heat of the SSD. If that works, then why you need some massive passive or active cooling on these PCI-E 5.0 SSDs?
 
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That "graphene coated metal foil" can do nothing to tame the heat of the SSD. If that works, then why you need some massive passive or active cooling on these PCI-E 5.0 SSDs?
It's a thermal spreader, not a heat sink.

Conceptually, they're intended to spread the thermal load over the mass of the drive.
Oversimplified: The few 'hot' parts dump heat into the 'cool, but thermally tolerant' parts.

These 'allotropic carbon' thermal spreaders work like magic. But, only at "spreading" heat.
If the drive has 0 airflow and/or is under constant heavy load, it's going to throttle.

Basically, these 'spreader stickers' are to cover the majority of users.
Even, thrown into a suffocated laptop, the spreader helps keep the drive from killing itself w/in warranty.
 
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