Teamgroup Cardea Z44Q 4TB NVMe SSD review

Posted on: 09/08/2021 07:45 PM

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great review HH.
i really like we are getting a wider variety of controllers in the market and that Phison is able to respond.

but i really, really like that the price point for this level of performance is lower than Samsung or SanDisk.

i lust after 4tb pcie 4 M.2's, but i still cannot justify the price.
that 2tb model is a different story as it's the right price/performance... and two of them is still cheaper than the 4tb model by over $40 if you have the slots.
for me anything over 2tb is still a cause for external drives, hopefully high speed probably RAID'ed.

Posted on: 09/08/2021 07:56 PM

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Honestly, for the capacity, form factor, and performance, that price is reasonable. I'm not going to buy it, but I expected worse.

Posted on: 09/08/2021 09:46 PM

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Not sure I`ll get another Sabrent rocket 4 plus.... my 1tb is already down to 87% life left according to HWinfo after writing less than 6 tb, but my 2tb Mp600 is at 99% after 26tb host writes, strange thing is...Sabrents software puts the drive at 100% health....800TBW for a 4tb drive seems a bit low

Posted on: 09/09/2021 04:51 AM

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My Asus MB supports (4) four M.2 slots and I rather place or distribute those at chunks of 2TB and 1TB's. Rather than taking a chance in loading-up 4TB all on one platter and losing my data all in one big hit if that should ever happen. Besides I am actually hard-pressed to even count "on one hand" how many people that I know who produce that much data or really require 4TB of cold storage.

Posted on: 09/09/2021 08:36 AM

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QLC? Don't want it for free then