TEAMGROUP GX2 512GB 3D NAND TLC 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal Solid State Drive SSD (Read Speed up to 530 MB/s) Compatible with Laptop & PC Desktop T253X2512G0C101

512GB for about 20 bucks. It works perfectly as secondary storage. 4 years ago i had to pay 3 times the price.

I was in need of another 2.5 SSD, as my PC is small and equipped with only one M.2 slot and the rest, SATA. I have a Samsung 870 in one, which has been great and this was replacing a stock 3.5 HDD. I figured for $65 and 2TB which equated out to be 1.89TB after formatting, and crystal disk specced this out at 540MBs read and 30MBish, below for write, i couldnt be happier. My drives are filled with games, so we will see how reliability is. Will update in the future with changes

If you are shopping this, you are looking for the cheapest SSD that will still perform to spec. I am happy to report that this is indeed the case. I get reads/writes as specified. I copied my Activision library from an NVMe drive to this one ystd, ~400gb, and it sustained 400-500MB/s throughout. Mostly hovering around 450. This is pretty much standard for SATAIII SSDs at this point so nothing out of the ordinary. Doesn’t choke after a few GB like some cost-optimized drives will when they run out of cache. Physically, they definitely saved money. The case is plastic. The PCB is about 1/4th of the case. This is fine imo, it is not a display piece and the screw-holes have a metal insert so even if you’re moving it around a few times, the physical construction is probably more than adequate. It does have a metal-looking sticker on the top, so if it does happen to be visible in your build, it is not offensive. I’d buy it again if its cost is lower than similar models. Basically just a commodity drive at commodity price. Gave it a 3 stars on “for gaming” because I think gamers should be looking at PCIe-based storage these days. For games that don’t saturate SATAIII it is fine.

This is the third one Im using. They all work great!

My previous laptop only had 256 gig of space. I was running out. This has been a great way to upgrade. Now, Im using it as an external hard drive for my new laptop! 5 stars.

I liked it because it works well and is durable I clone it to my other hard drive it it worked perfectly

Needed to upgrade the hard drive on my PS4 and this made the games load up quick. Theres times when youre waiting for maps to load and with the ssd drive they load up in secs. Highly recommend for PS4 users especially if you have a 5 year plus console because those drives will eventually die and whatever you have in them will be lost.

Been waiting for prices on SSDs to reach a good price. Using for back up for externals and they are worth it. Speed is good.

Cheap 2TB SSD in the market.

Model purchased/reviewed was the AX2 2TB SATA 2.5 SSD. Does what it should for the most part. Plastic casing (common for lower end SSDs) but feels sturdier than most in this price category. This shouldnt matter too much unless you are doing a lot of hot swapping of the drive. GParted reports 1.86TiB usable space, just slightly larger than the 2TB HDD it replaced (so storage is a true 2TB not 1.92TB like some other 2TB models - this matters when replacing drives in arrays, larger is usually OK but smaller is often an problem). Most true 2TB drives report 1.82TiB so this dive is 40GiB larger than expected. Does not support DRAT/DZAT (Deterministic Read ZEROs After TRIM) - meaning no TRIM when connected to an LSI/Broadcom HBA. So while Team Group claims TRIM support, it wont fully operate in all cases. Unfortunately the LSI/Broadcom HBAs are quite common and popular.