TeamGroup is leaning into the “new crypto craze” by pitching its extremely sturdy T-Create Expert SSD with “spectacular” write endurance as being the perfect candidate for mining Chia. And so it begins.
This might turn into a pattern if Chia can construct on its pre-release momentum. That’s a huge ‘if’, nonetheless, because the new storage-based cryptocurrency misplaced half its worth on the primary day of buying and selling alone—it launched at $1,600 yesterday, and is now price round $680. But, when it comes to worth per digital coin (and never the general market cap), that also places it within the prime 10.
Despite TeamGroup’s newfound marketing pitch, the T-Create Expert is a notable SSD, providing an endurance stage of up to 12,000 TBW (terabytes written). TeamGroup factors out the T-Create Expert is 3-10 instances extra sturdy than its MP33 and QX SSD strains, thereby “eliminating the trouble of regularly changing SSDs and offering extra precious time to mine cryptocurrency!”
Sure, that is one angle.
Incidentally, T-Create is a sub-brand of TeamGroup (kind of like Republic of Gamers, or ROG, is a sub-brand of Asus). It’s used to promote Expert SSDs to creators by leveraging ‘enterprise-level’ NAND flash reminiscence chips that may stand up to extra write cycles than what’s discovered on most client SSD fashions. I’d postulate there’s nonetheless widespread enchantment for a excessive endurance SSDs, past crypto mining and creating.
To put the 12,000 TBW determine into perspective, Addlink’s S70, the most effective SSDs for gaming, tops out at 1,600 TBW for the 2TB mannequin. Samsung’s 980 Pro is sweet for up to 1,200 TBW on the similar capability.
The T-Create Expert is comparatively quick, too. It is an M.2 type issue drive with an NVMe interface, and is rated to ship up to 3,400MB/s of learn efficiency and up to 3,000MB/s of write efficiency. Not in any respect dangerous for a PCIe 3.0 drive.
TeamGroup is providing the sequence in two capacities—1TB (6,000 TBW) and 2TB (12,000 TBW). Given the crypto advertising and marketing angle (Chia is mined on unused storage area, and the extra of it you could have, the higher), it is odd that TeamGroup would not have bigger capacities obtainable.
Both are backed a prolonged 12-year guarantee. TeamGroup’s advertising and marketing pitch means that mining Chia (or different storage-based cryptocurrencies) is not going to void the guarantee, although I’ve reached out to the corporate for clarification and can replace this text after I hear again.
The drives are supposedly up for pre-order, however I could not discover them anyplace. According to TechPowerUp, which reviewed the 2TB mannequin earlier this month, pricing checks in at $800 for the 2TB drive and $400 for the 1TB mannequin. So there’s your caveat—the extremely excessive endurance scores and long guarantee interval are good facilities, however they arrive at a steep worth ($0.40 per gigabyte).
