TEAMGROUP MP34 4TB with DRAM SLC Cache 3D NAND TLC NVMe 1.3 PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 2280 Internal SSD (Read/Write Speed up to 3,500/2,900 MB/s) Compatible with Laptop & PC Desktop TM8FP4004T0C101

Bang for buck king of 4TB m.2 SSD's in late 2023 when I got it. Went for around $165. The price has creeped up since then but its still a solid bargain here in early 2024. Uses the Realtek RTS5762 controller (low cost but decent performance) with Hynix TLC flash (decent price, performance, and durability for a consumer drive at .5 DWPD) and has 128MB of DRAM to act as a buffer. Some of the TLC flash is ran in a pseudo "SLC cache" mode to improve performance which is how this thing performs so well despite using lower cost components. That performance will drop pretty hard if you get the drive near full because of that. So don't try to fill up more than 75% of the way if you want high performance. At 4TB though that still leaves plenty of space so IMO its not a big deal. It will still certainly beat the heck out of a lot of the QLC trash drives that are usually what sell for this price in this capacity range even when near full though. The supported PCIe gen is "only" 3.0 but that is still --perfectly-- fine, really quite good IMO, for almost anything you would need out of a consumer SSD in 2023/2024 and probably 2025 or 2026 at least as well. The generation of PCIe only effects max data transfer rates (that is linear reads/writes) which hardly matters at all for most desktop use cases once you get to PCIe 3.0 speeds. ===Its low queue depth random read/write performance that matters for desktops.=== Yes even in gaming. And this SSD does pretty well there thanks to its caching scheme despite the cheaper controller. To get significantly better performance than this drive you would have to step up to buying a Optane SSD (getting harder to find in late 2023 and still fairly expensive if you want more than 2TB, probably will need u.2 adapter as well.......) or a MUUUCH higher cost enterprise class SSD like a Kioxia CD8P or CM7, or the Solidigm P5810, or a Memblaze PBlaze7 7940 drives. Which are also not m.2 and did I mention how terribly expensive they are?? Note that this MIIIIIGHT change if Microsoft's Direct Storage ever really takes off among software developers. Right now that easily seems years away at best though. I think only 1-2 games support it as of early 2024. At least 1 of which sucks fairly badly (Forspoken) and the other has some serious bugs that making playing irritating. And this drive will still benefit a whole lot from software that properly uses Direct Storage anyways so you don't have to worry about it for a long long time.

I successfully installed SSD module into USB-based UGreen enclosure. I installed Ubuntu 23.10 on it. However, it often hung when disk activity is in effect. It causes filesystem to go into read-only mode without any warning. Also, it causes extremely hot when touch it. It only worked fine with Windows system. I tried to update firmware to it, but firmware updater can't see it through USB interface. I have two TeamGroup MP34 modules on other USB enclosures, but firmware updater can't see both. Update: I got Ubuntu updates. When kernel was updated to version 6.5, all problems went away. No more crashes. I updated to 5 stars! Great job!!

I wish it came with a screw but overall it worked right out of the box. Phison E12 and 4TB of TLC. I ran a benchmark using Samsung Magician and the sequential read/write are respectable and within the claimed range. They're not intended to saturate your PCI-Express bus with data but if you need a large capacity data archive and you can't have a 3.5" or 2.5" disk; then this is probably your next best. TBH, this is probably cheaper than a 4th 2.5" SSD; faster, too.

I bought 3 of these 4 TB MP34 drives to use as external storage with my MacBook Pro. I'm sorry to say that they have caused nothing but headaches. Once I inserted this into my laptop, I was able to transfer about 1-2 TB of data onto it. Then, the disconnects started. Every single minute the drive would unmount and remount MULTIPLE times. My first MP34 drive had around 500 power on counts, despite my having plugged it in a maximum of around 10 times. What I tried to fix this issue: 1. Formatting the drive again and again 2. Using a massive heatsink with a thermal pad and a fan pointed directly to it 3. Formatting as exFAT and APFS instead of APFS (encrypted) 4. Trying to transfer data via Windows 5. Directly connecting it to the NVMe slot in my PC 6. Updating the firmware of the NVMe to the latest found from the TeamGroup website 7. Using a different USB C cable with my enclosure 8. Using a different USB enclosure altogether 9. Using another MP34 NVMe I bought Sadly, the same issues were experienced every single time. Since this happened on two different drive, it seems like to me that it's fundamentally an issue with the firmware and/or the drive itself. I didn't even bother opening the third drive since I knew I would be returning them. I went back and forth with TeamGroup's customer support and asked them to have an engineer look at it. They either didn't understand or refused, and told me to file an RMA or return it to Amazon. Since this same issue was happening on two different new drives, I decided to do the latter and return all three to Amazon. The few positive things I want to say are that 1. It's pretty cheap for a 4 TB drive 2. This seems to have TLC storage, so sustained write speeds theoretically should not decrease to below 1TB/s 3. It seems to have a little bit of extra storage (4.1 TB instead of just 4.0 TB) I really wanted this to work, but at the present moment they are unusable. I'll stick with my T7 Shields for now.

Great upgrade storage stick got it for use with my Asus rog ally x fits perfectly and installation was easy and straightforward

UPDATE: I learned that the enclosure that I was using wasn’t powerful enough to use a 4TB m.2. I searched for enclosures that specifically said they were made for 4TB and they work great now. I changed to 5 stars for that. I left the old review below to show what happens when you don’t have the correct enclosure. ———————————————— Old review: I thought these would be good for video editing. Nope, they constantly dismount when any significant data transfer gets going. They're paired with a Sabrent case which I've never had this particular issue with, but the drives were on clearance, and I'm guessing for this reason. TLDR; Overheats in an external chassis and unmounts.

Great performing drive at great price. Look for TeamGroup over name brands. Bought this before drive prices skyrocketed...those were the says. 🤣 Dont forget to dete the drivers for your previous drive in Drive Manager or else there will be a conflict and your computer will crash.

I just bought 5 of these drives for future use in the Asustor Flashstor 12 to test and leaving my initial findings. I've only tested in the Acasis 40Gbps thunderbolt enclosure that I've been using for Samsung 980 Pro cards where Blackmagic reports 2600MB/s write 2400MB/s read on the Samsung 980. This is by no means a scientific benchmark, just some ad-hoc testing to see if they'll be a fit for use in the Flashstor 12. No heatsink was used in testing. All 5 cards reported the same results and none were DOA. AmorphousDiskMark was reporting ~1700MB/s sequential read and ~1550MB/s sequential write. Blackmagic Disk Speed Test was reporting ~1400MB/s write and ~1600MB/s read. Sustained writes were good and tested with a 280GB transfer that averaged about 800MB/s. Each transfer started at ~1500MB/s and a minute later dropped down to ~900MB/s and a minute following it fluctuated on a regular internal between 300-900MB/s. So far it looks good for Flashstor use and will likely never see these numbers due to the implementation limitations of the Flashstor device (minimal PCI lanes available). The low price, good sustained write speed and high TBW are giving me a little more confidence given this is not (yet or maybe never will be) listed as officially compatible with the Flashstor.

This is an awesome SSD and great value for money. I am very happy with the speed of uploads and downloads, it's super fast. My only complaint and this is not about the actual product, but more the price point. The price has changed 3 times since mid December. When I saved this to my wish list mid December, it was $221.99 CAD. This was the usual price and not a special sale price. Then I checked the item again on December 28th and it had risen to $234.99 CAD. I had to wait until I was paid on the 5th January. I thought, okay fine, it's still less than the rest. When I checked it again the day before I was paid, the price had gone up again, this time to $250.99 CAD. Seriously. If it hadn't still been less than everyone else, I would have gone elsewhere!! Now I see the price has come down a little to $247.97 CAD. Thanks Amazon, wait until after I buy it, then reduce it again!! Love the product, don't love the constant messing with the price!!

Since I use it for media storage, it loads the thumbnails pretty fast compared to a HDD or a SATA SSD, which is very useful when I'm quickly looking for my files in my massive storage. It can also be an excellent boot drive if you have a Motherboard at least compatible for 3rd Gen PCIE M.2 NVMe.

I've been using a couple of these for light to moderate load tasks as OS/boot/primary SSDs in laptops and desktops for over a year now and they've performed fine.

Llegó intacto y sin ningún desperfecto. La instalación fue sencilla y rápida, definitivamente vale la pena el gasto en un componente así. 🫡

Fantastic secondary drive for games and video files for sure. I get full gen 3 speeds when benchmarking and also see no dips in speeds even when transferring folders with tens of thousands of files, which some SSDs struggle with. On top of that, it's TLC, has DRAM, over 2000 TBW and 5 year warranty? That makes it a must buy in my opinion.