Team Group A440 Lite 2 TB

[W1zzard]

The Team Group A440 Lite is a competitively priced SSD that features the new Phison E27T controller. In our review we found solid performance and improved power consumption over its predecessor. The NAND flash is Toshiba 162-layer 3D TLC BiCS6.

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[Onasi]

Still waiting for the race to the bottom to break the 100 bucks barrier on the 2TB Gen 4 drives. We are getting close.

 

[QUANTUMPHYSICS]

I'm enjoying the lowered SSD prices. By the time I build my 5090 based machine, I'll probably get a cheaper 4TB drive. 2TB is great though if I wanna upgrade my laptop.

 

[kapone32]

Still waiting for the race to the bottom to break the 100 bucks barrier on the 2TB Gen 4 drives. We are getting close.

I think the Kingston NV2 hit that mark. Of course I do not mean today.

 

[_roman_]

Nice write speeds.

So sad to see that nvme drives will not have DRAM anymore.

 

[Darksword]

Why are we seeing so many drives without DRAM anymore? How much more expensive can it actually be?

 

[Heiro78]

I'm enjoying the lowered SSD prices. By the time I build my 5090 based machine, I'll probably get a cheaper 4TB drive. 2TB is great though if I wanna upgrade my laptop.

I was going for the 4TB A440 Pro Special Series for $250 but they ran out of those, shipped, then discounted the regular 4TB Pro to $200 when I pointed out their mistake.

 

[Readlight]

Is it possible to change memory chips, when ther life ends?

 

[b1k3rdude]

Nice 4k qd1 speeds, but as the OP found, the sustained perf drops off a cliff very early on.

 

[Frick]

Is it possible to change memory chips, when ther life ends?

Why would you want to? By then it'll be cheaper to just get a new drive anyway.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Hello.
Why the SK Hynix Platinum P41 2TB SSD Drive is missing from the comparison tests?
Or why is no longer on those?

 

[Sunlight91]

Isn't the small SLC cache good for laptops? By limiting the time the SSD writes at full speeds it never gets too hot.
1.4 GB/s is also still plenty and there are no sudden further drops like most other budget drives.

 

[W1zzard]

Hello.
Why the SK Hynix Platinum P41 2TB SSD Drive is missing from the comparison tests?
Or why is no longer on those?

Solidigm P44 Pro is the exact same drive, and I'm assuming they have sold more units than Hynix? I might be wrong though

This has been asked 3 times now, next retest I'll replace the P44 Pro with P41 Platinum

 

[Prima.Vera]

Solidigm P44 Pro is the exact same drive, and I'm assuming they have sold more units than Hynix? I might be wrong though

This has been asked 3 times now, next retest I'll replace the P44 Pro with P41 Platinum

Thank you. I wasn't aware of this. Appreciated.

 

[Macro Device]

So sad to see that nvme drives will not have DRAM anymore.

DRAM is basically a crutch made to mitigate poor controller speed. Now that controllers become better it's no longer as necessary to sustain performance. In the far enough future, we'll likely only see DRAM in the heaviest duty experimental drives if any.

 

[_roman_]

DRAM is basically a crutch made to mitigate poor controller speed.

That's your point of view.

I do not want to loose my expensive GiB DDR5 RAM. RAM is very, very, very, very expensive.

The better technology is when a graphic card or data storage do not reduce my expensive RAM.

In my point of view - there is even more traffic over the PCIE bus because DRAM is missing for "caluclations" on the data storage.
I want to explain it with my current hardware.
The Ryzen 7600X processor talk via 4 lanes PCIE 4.0 bus to the first mainboard chip and than over the same bus speed connection with the next mainbaord chip. All traffic has to go through two mainboard chips and slows down the PCIE 4.0 4 lanes connection
there is less traffic with proper drives with DRAM.

There are still computers out there with budget dram less nvme wiht only 4GiB or 8GiB DRAM. Most likely often also with a graphic cards which steals DRAM.


I still have no idea how my backup media in the usb nvme bridge (ICYBOX IB-1817M-C31 USB Gehäuse 10Gbit/s USB 3.1 gen 2) handles the Western Digital sn570 1TB. That drive also does not have DRAM.
I wonder if there is some sort of fallback mode if that host buffer memory feature does not work.

 

[W1zzard]

my expensive GiB

The size is 32 to 64 MB

if there is some sort of fallback mode if that host buffer memory feature does not work.

Yeah, it will just not use HMB and the drive runs slower. The HMB is used for the mapping tables of the SSD, which is stored in flash, but is slower to access than through HMB. The source of truth always remains the flash