Teamgroup T-Force Cardea A440 Pro Special Series 1TB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Teamgroup T-Force Cardea A440 Pro Special Series 1TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. 128KB Sequential Performance8. 4K Random Read v QD Performance9. 4K Random Write v QD Performance10. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance11. 4K Random Performance QD1-QD812. Throughput13. PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark14. 3DMark Storage Benchmark15. Performance Stability16. Drive Temperatures17. Real Life File Testing18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

We took note of the drive’s temperature during some of our benchmarking runs. The drive uses a very thin graphene heat spreader that comes bundled with the drive ready for you to stick it on top of the four NAND packages, DRAM IC and the controller.

The graphene does a reasonably good job of keeping the drive cool seeing as though it's a Gen4 drive and most if not all get pretty hot. The drive reached 56° C (with a 20° C ambient temperature) during the Performance Stability test, which is still pretty warm and not too far away from the 70° upper limit for the drive, but we didn’t see any thermal throttling issues.

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