Review: Teamgroup Cardea Z44Q 4TB NVMe SSD (QLC en masse)

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

QLC? Don't want it for free then

 

yeah seems fishy :/
here's my abused file swap/work Sata SSD
Samsung 860 EVO 1TB TLC
power on hours 11450 / 477 days
total host writes 143'543Gb
healt status 86%
it's seeing 300Gbs written/day basically, QLC is garbage I wouldn't buy one

 

Fail Safe Fast Backup Every Day, because very narrow time to make a full backup scenario (and slow copy backup to large external storage).... that's why... and many of us!

 

TLC and QLC is garbage. Even MLC is average. Optane all the way for ALL storage

 

these aren't known for their throughput though.

 

Wrong

https://www.storagereview.com/review/intel-optane-ssd-p5800x-review

This is my Optane setup: 3x 900p raid-0

Pretty good 4k rr @ QD=1 and seq read and write

 

if you need to be in raid to hit that, you're proving my point.

lower throughput
higher latency

 

Did you even look at p5800x?
Higher latency??

Throughput on 900p is actual pretty good. Performance on seq read and write is a flat line, so it makes the end result beating many way higher "specced" ssd's.

If you did your homework, you would know 900p is pci-e 3.0....
It's all about real world performance, not theoretical on paper