Team Group T-Force Cardea 480Gb NVMe detailed specs

Posted on November 07, 2022 by Raymond Chen

How fast is the T-Force Cardea (480Gb) produced by Team Group and further details read below on this site.

Team Group T-Force Cardea 480Gb NVMe detailed specs

T-Force Cardea (480Gb) produced by Team Group works on Phison PS5007-E7 controller. The T-Force Cardea comes equipped with Toshiba MLC flash memory. NVMe SSD is offered also in 240 Gb volume sizes.

Performance and benchmarks

NVMe SSD use PCIe PCIe 3.0 x 4 with sequential write speeds equals to 1450 Mbps, and read speeds 2650 Mbps. This model has input/output performance 180000 on reading and 150000 on writing operations.

Endurance and warranty

Team Group give 3 years of warranty that limited by 670 TBW. As well it has 2 million hours mean time between failure.

Specs

Category	Value
Capacity	480 Gb
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x 4
Controller	Phison PS5007-E7
Memory type	Toshiba MLC
DRAM	n/a
Read speed (Mb/s)	2650
Write speed (Mb/s)	1450
Read IOPS	180000
Write IOPS	150000
Endurance (TBW)	670
MTBF (million hours)	2
Warranty (years)	3

Conclusion

Team Group T-Force Cardea 480Gb support PCIe Gen3 that is undoubtedly slower than PCIe 4.0. The sequential write speed is 1450 Mb/s, that is slower than has most of rivals. The SSD provide possibility to write 670 TBW, that is pretty well in comparison with nearest competitors. On balance, Team Group T-Force Cardea 480Gb has more disadvantages and our editor do not advise to spend money for it.

+ Pros

Endurance

- Cons

Slow writing speed
PCIe 3.0
Capacity

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FAQ

The T-Force Cardea 480Gb has no dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) in their controller or data about it is unknown. Dynamic Random-Access Memory makes storage work faster, but more expensive.

The T-Force Cardea 480Gb due to the low density of memory chips can last with no further heat sinks. Some laptops or motherboards from the factory has additional cooling below and above the SSD for improving performance during times of high loads.

The Team Group T-Force Cardea 480Gb has write speed 1450 Mb per second, maximum read speed 2650 Mbps. It run on Phison PS5007-E7 controller and PCIe 3.0 x 4 high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard. The memory type is Toshiba MLC.