Review: Teamgroup Cardea A440 2TB NVMe SSD (Breaching 7 GB/sec)

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/25/2021 03:02 PM | source: | 2 comment(s)

Teamgroup released their super high-performance A440 M.2 NVMe SSD series. Powered by a vigorously fast PS5018-E18 controller, this Cardea series product is close to one of the most compelling SSDs we have tested in a while. If you like endurance and PCIe 4.0 performance levels breaching 7 GB/sec, of course.

Read the review here.

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wavetrex
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#5915620 Posted on: 05/27/2021 09:01 AM

Do you really need 7 GB/sec storage?

Not really. period.

Great conclusion.

SSDs need to win the capacity war now, not speed... they are already fast enough and have been fast enough for quite a while ! Even a 2-lane NVMe drive ( topping at 1.8 GB/s ) is fast enough for any home computer.

bluedevil
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#5915874 Posted on: 05/28/2021 07:46 AM

We can't see a difference between the drives because Microsoft hasn't released Direct Storage yet so the software is limiting the real potential transfer speed . I am referring to games loading times of course.

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