Final Words & Conclusion
Final Words & Conclusion
TeamGroup offers a compelling product (for NVMe) with the MP33 PRO as this is an outstanding value for money. It is among the cheapest NVMe units you can get your hands on (spotted for ~103 USD on Amazon); it plenty fast enough for anything you need to do one a standard workstation or gaming PC, but not as fast as the new PCIe Gen 4.0 units), The overall throughput of the NVMe SSD is splendid, it will not hit that TLC write hole very fast and thus overall is a strong contender offering all the perf you need really. NVMe based M.2. have been growing and advancing in performance really fast with NAND; combine it with a proper controller, and you can get proper performance, and that at 11 cents per GB. So yes, the MP33 PRO PRO 1TB managed to dazzle, especially when looking at overall performance averaged out over all types of workloads; this SSD averages out incredibly well. The Vertically stacked TLC written NAND combined with the Phison 5013-E13 controller and proper workloads reveals 2GB/s reads in specific workloads with close to 2 GB/s in writes.
Performance
Technologies like TLC and QLC face some challenges writing more bits per cell of NAND; however, we noticed a dropoff in performance with mixed heavy workloads, so the dreaded TLC write hole did kick in (and I do mean continuously sustained/linear writes minute after minute). See when the SSD buffers are full and start writing directly to TLC NAND; that could be an issue. This, in a nutshell, is what you need to be aware of with TLC and QLC SSDs. After passing roughly 20GB, that becomes noticeable. Overall and IOPS performance is good on this unit, really good. The overall workload traces also indicate this SSD to be extremely capable and fast. TBW values are lovely as well, 600 TBW for the 1 TB model. Albeit how companies calculate or test these values these days is a bit of a mystery. A listed TBW value, however, is something you can pin them on warranty wise.
- 400 TBW for 512 GB model
- 600 TBW for 1 TB model
Concluding
We think that the new MP33 PRO is a terrific series for mainstream workstations and game PCs, and it is priced right as we spotted it for 103 USD on Amazon already. It offers competent read/write values in that 2GB/sec range, which is plenty fast for anyone. It doesn't run hot under hefty load. The one culprit is that you'll hit a TLC write hole once you pass 20 GB continuous writing. If you deal with sich workloads a lot, then this SSD is not for you. However, for any other workload, the MP33 PRO is more than capable and multitudes faster than your regular SATA3 SSD for pretty much the same money. Prices vary per week though, two weeks ago, the SSD was even slightly cheaper. The latest 96 and 64-layer Vertically stacked NAND works its miracles, and the add-in partners benefit from that. The PRO series offers plenty of performance at a very acceptable price level for any normal PC user and gamer. TeamGroup will give you a 5-year warranty on the product series that or 600 TB written, whichever comes first. That in technology land is the proper warranty to have. If you need heap and fast NVMe storage, highly recommended. And being TLC based, 600 TBW is a nice bonus as well as that warranty.
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