Team Group Venture Into The M.2 SSD Market

👤by Tim Harmer Comments 📅31.03.2015 17:10:21


Memory specialists Team Group are jumping on the M.2 SSD bandwagon with their new TM4PS4 & TM8PS4 lines. The new M.2 SSDs make use of SATA III signalling and the 22x42mm or 22x80mm form factors, making them well suited to a wide range of thin notebooks, embedded systems, and small form factor desktop designs.

Both the TM4PS4 and TM8PS4 support advanced garbage collection, TRIM Command, and a new low-power mode known as DevSleep; each of these serve to improve long-term performance, durability as well as saving on costs. They also benefit from a 3 year warranty and free technical support, so you'll have great peace of mind picking up one of the Team Group designs.

Technical Specifications

Interface:- SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s) – with backwards compatibility to SATA Rev. 2.0

Data transfer rate:

TM4PS4:
- ATTO:- 128GB/256GB Read/Write: up to 550/150 MB/s**
- Crystal Disk Mark:- 128GB/256GB Read/Write: up to 520/150 MB/s**
- IOPS:- 128GB/256GB 4K Random Read/Write: 70K/40K IOPS Max**

TM8PS4:
- ATTO:- 128GB/256GB Read/Write: up to 560/300 MB/s**
- Crystal Disk Mark:- 128GB/256GB Read/Write: up to 530/300 MB/s**
- IOPS:- 128GB/256GB 4K Random Read/Write: 73K/70K IOPS Max**

Power consumption:
- TM4PS4: 0.3 W Idle / 1.1W (Max) Read / 1.9 W (Max) Write
- TM8PS4: 0.3 W Idle / 1.2W (Max) Read / 2.9 W (Max) Write

Product Dimensions:
- TM4PS4: 42.0mm × 22.0mm × 3.5mm
- TM8PS4: 80.0mm × 22.0mm × 3.5mm

Operating environment:- 0˚C to 70˚C (-32˚F to 158˚F)

Weight:
- TM4PS4: 4g
- TM8PS4:- 9g

MTBF:- 1.5 million hours
Warranty:- 3-year limited warranty


We should note that M.2 SSDs are typically split between two different interface modes - SATA III and PCI-Express. The SATA III mode benefits from being relatively easy to retrofit from mSATA to M.2, reducing development costs and hence the price for the end-user, but don't take advantage of the full PCI-Express over M.2 speeds. These new SSD fall in to the latter camp.

For more information on both storage and memory products from Team Group visit TeamGroup.com.tw



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