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

Great price to performance ssd. Fast and reliable. I use this as an externall add on to my storage and gaming needs.

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.

Nice affordable SSD

Upgrade to laptop

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.

Needed a speed boost on my Dell T30 Server. Not a bad price.

Installed and worked as it should.

Good SSD would buy again

Got it as a replacement for Fusion Drive I had in my iMac. Didn’t do much speed testing on but looks like fast enough.

Ive done a bit of heavy reading and writing to this drive and it maintains a high speed throughout a heavy write op of many GB of data and thats all I care about, that and maintaining a excellent read speed while reading say 500GB of data from the drive and it does that just fine. I dont know how it will hold up over time because I havent used it enough yet but so far so good. FANTASTIC value for what I paid which was under $100 USD. If you can find these under $110 its a good deal. Prices fluctuate of course because of market forces and this seems to happen more so with memory and storage devices, so dont expect prices to always get lower just because its an older model. If its under $110 its a good price for this quality. It it were a top end SATA SSD it would be more like $130 - $140 and be a good deal.