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 used CrystalDiskMark 8‘s custom settings to test the Sequential read and write performance of the drive through a range of queue depths. The setup for the tests is listed below.
128KB Sequential Read / Write.

Transfer Request Size: 128KB, Thread(s): 1, Outstanding I/O: 1-32.

At a queue depth of 32, the drive produces a test result of 7,413.87MB/s confirming the official maximum figure of 7,200MB/s. Writes peaked at 5,875.71 (QD2) before dropping slightly to finish the test run (QD32) at 5,869.75MB/s, both figures being shy of the official 6,000MB/s maximum.

128KB Sequential Read v QD Performance compared

At QDs 1 and 2 the drive sits near the bottom of the results chart. However, by QD4 it has rocketed up the chart until at QD32 it sits in third place behind the Patriot Viper VP4300 and Kingston's KC3000 drives.

128KB Sequential Write v QD Performance compared.

When it comes to Sequential writes, the drive sits in a mid-table position throughout all the tested queue depths.

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