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Team Group G50 2 TB Review

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Test Setup

Test System SSD 2024
Processor:Intel Core i9-13900KS
Raptor Lake
6.0 GHz, 8+16 cores / 32 threads
Motherboard:ASUS ROG Z790 Dark Hero
BIOS 1102
Memory:2x 16 GB DDR5-6000
Graphics:PNY GeForce RTX 4080 Super Verto OC
Cooling:Valkyrie Syn 360 mm AIO
Thermal Paste:Arctic MX-6
Power Supply:Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 850 W
ATX 3.0 / 16-pin 12VHPWR
Case:darkFlash DRX70 White
Operating System:Windows 11 Professional 64-bit 23H2
VBS enabled (Windows 11 default)
Drivers:NVIDIA: 552.12 WHQL



Synthetic Testing

  • Tests are run with a 20-second-long warm-up time (result recording starts at second 21).
  • Between each test, the drive is left idle for 60 seconds, to allow it to flush and reorganize its internal data.
  • All write requests contain random, incompressible data.
  • Disk cache is flushed between all tests.
  • During these tests, M.2 drives are tested with additional active fan-cooling, to ensure thermal throttling can't happen

Real-life Testing

  • After initial configuration and installation, a disk image is created; it is used to test every drive.
  • Automated updates are disabled for the OS and all programs. This ensures that—for every review—each drive uses the same settings, without interference from previous testing.
  • Our disk image consumes around 700 GB—partitions are resized to fill all available space on the drive.
  • All drives are filled with random data to 85% of their capacity. This is intentional, to run the drive in realistic operating conditions—nobody uses a nearly-empty SSD in their system. It also puts additional stress on the pseudo-SLC cache subsystem, because there is less free NAND space to work with.
  • Partitions are aligned properly.
  • Disk cache is flushed between all tests.
  • In order to minimize random variation, each real-life performance test is run several times, with reboots between tests to minimize the impact of disk cache.
  • All application benchmarks run the actual application and do not replay any disk traces.
  • Our real-life testing data includes performance numbers for a typical high-performance HDD, using results from a Western Digital WD Black 1 TB 7200 RPM 3.5" SATA. HDDs are significantly slower than SSDs, which is why we're not putting the result in the chart, as that would break the scaling, making the SSDs indistinguishable in comparison. Instead, we've added the HDD performance numbers in the title of each test entry.
  • During these tests, M.2 drives are tested with additional active fan-cooling, to ensure thermal throttling can't happen

Comparison Drives

We compare the tested drive to a wide selection of SSDs currently available on the market. Besides popular drives, our focus is also on including common controller and flash type combinations.

TechPowerUp SSD Review Test Group
 ControllerChannelsFlashDRAMInterface
ADATA SX8200 Pro 1 TBSilicon Motion SM2262ENG8TLC / MicronYesPCIe 3.0 x4
Corsair MP400 2 TBPhison E12S8QLC / MicronYesPCIe 4.0 x4
Corsair MP600 Elite 2 TBPhison E274TLC / ToshibaNoPCIe 4.0 x4
Corsair MP700 Pro 2 TBPhison E268TLC / MicronYesPCIe 5.0 x4
Crucial BX500 1 TBSilicon Motion SM2258XT4TLC / MicronNoSATA
Crucial MX500 1 TBSilicon Motion SM2258H4TLC / MicronYesSATA
Crucial P1 1 TBSilicon Motion SM2263ENG8QLC / MicronYesPCIe 3.0 x4
Crucial P5 1 TBMicron DM01B28TLC / MicronYesPCIe 3.0 x4
Crucial P5 Plus 1 TBMicron DM02A18TLC / MicronYesPCIe 4.0 x4
Hynix Gold P31 2 TBHynix ACNT0388TLC / HynixYesPCIe 3.0 x4
Kingston KC3000 2 TBPhison E188TLC / MicronYesPCIe 4.0 x4
Kingston NV2 1 TBPhison E214TLC / ToshibaNoPCIe 4.0 x4
Lexar NM710 2 2 TBMaxiotech MAP1602A4TLC / YMTCNoPCIe 4.0 x4
Lexar NM790 2 2 TBMaxiotech MAP1602A4TLC / YMTCNoPCIe 4.0 x4
MSI Spatium M450 1 TBPhison E194TLC / MicronNoPCIe 4.0 x4
Neo Forza NFP495 2 TBTenaFE TC22014TLC / YMTCNoPCIe 4.0 x4
Samsung 860 EVO 1 TBSamsung MJX8TLC / SamsungYesSATA
Samsung 870 QVO 1 TBSamsung MKX8QLC / SamsungYesSATA
Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1 TBSamsung Phoenix8TLC / SamsungYesPCIe 3.0 x4
Samsung 980 1 TBSamsung Pablo8TLC / SamsungYesPCIe 3.0 x4
Samsung 980 Pro 1 TBSamsung Elpis8TLC / SamsungYesPCIe 4.0 x4
Samsung 990 Pro 2 TBSamsung Pascal8TLC / SamsungYesPCIe 4.0 x4
Seagate Barracuda 120 1 TBPhison S128TLC / IntelYesSATA
Seagate FireCuda 510 1 TBPhison E128TLC / ToshibaYesPCIe 3.0 x4
Solidigm P44 Pro 2 TBSK hynix ACNS0758TLC / HynixYesPCIe 4.0 x4
WD Black SN770 1 TBSanDisk 20-82-100814TLC / SanDiskNoPCIe 4.0 x4
WD Black SN850 1 TBSanDisk 20-82-100358TLC / SanDiskYesPCIe 4.0 x4
WD Blue SN570 1 TBSanDisk 20-82-100234TLC / SanDiskNoPCIe 3.0 x4
WD Blue SN580 1 TBSanDisk 20-82-100824TLC / SanDiskNoPCIe 4.0 x4
XPG Atom 50 2 TBInnogrit IG52204TLC / MicronNoPCIe 4.0 x4
XPG Gammix S70 Blade 2 TBInnogrit IG52368TLC / MicronYesPCIe 4.0 x4
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