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Teamgroup Cardea II TUF Gaming Alliance 1 TB

1 TB
Capacity
Phison E12
Controller
TLC
Flash
PCIe 3.0 x4
Interface
M.2 2280
Form Factor
Front
Package
Package
SSD Controller
Controller
NAND Die
NAND Die
The Teamgroup Cardea II TUF Gaming Alliance is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched on June 20th, 2019. It is only available in the 1 TB capacity listed on this page. With the rest of the system, the Teamgroup Cardea II TUF Gaming Alliance interfaces using a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the PS5012-E12-27 from Phison, a DRAM cache chip is available. Teamgroup has installed 64-layer TLC NAND flash on the Cardea II TUF Gaming Alliance, the flash chips are made by Toshiba. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are soaked up more quickly. The cache is sized at 45 GB. The Cardea II TUF Gaming Alliance is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 3,400 MB/s and 3,000 MB/s write; random IOPS reach up to 450K for reads and 400K for writes.
The SSD's price at launch is unknown. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Teamgroup guarantees an endurance rating of 1665 TBW, a good value.

Solid-State-Drive

Capacity: 1 TB (1024 GB)
Overprovisioning: 70.3 GB / 7.4 %
Production: Active
Released: Jun 20th, 2019
Part Number: TM8FPB001T0C310
Market: Consumer

Physical

Form Factor: M.2 2280 (Double-Sided)
Interface: PCIe 3.0 x4
Protocol: NVMe 1.3
Power Draw: Unknown

Controller

Manufacturer: Phison
Name: PS5012-E12-27
Architecture: ARM 32-bit Cortex-R5
Core Count: Quad-Core
Frequency: 667 MHz
Foundry: TSMC
Process: 28 nm
Flash Channels: 8 @ 667 MT/s
Chip Enables: 4
Controller Features: DRAM (enabled)

NAND Flash

Manufacturer: Toshiba
Name: BiCS3
Part Number: TCBBG55AIV
Type: TLC
Technology: 64-layer
Speed: 533 MT/s
Capacity: 4 chips @ 2 Tbit
Toggle: 2.0
Topology: Charge Trap
Process: 19 nm
Die Size: 132 mm²
(3.9 Gbit/mm²)
Dies per Chip: 4 dies @ 512 Gbit
Planes per Die: 2
Decks per Die: 2
Read Time (tR): 80 µs
Program Time (tProg): 695 µs
Die Read Speed: 400 MB/s
Die Write Speed: 46 MB/s
Endurance:
(up to)		 3000 P/E Cycles
(30000 in SLC Mode)
Page Size: 16 KB
Block Size: 768 Pages
Plane Size: 2732 Blocks

DRAM Cache

Type: DDR4-2400 CL17
Name: SK Hynix H5AN4G8NBJA-UHC
Capacity: 1024 MB
(2x 512 MB)
Organization: 4Gx8

Performance

Sequential Read: 3,400 MB/s
Sequential Write: 3,000 MB/s
Random Read: 450,000 IOPS
Random Write: 400,000 IOPS
Endurance: 1665 TBW
Warranty: 5 Years
MTBF: 2.0 Million Hours
Drive Writes Per Day (DWPD): 0.9
SLC Write Cache: approx. 45 GB
(dynamic only)

Features

TRIM: Yes
SMART: Yes
Power Loss Protection: No
Encryption:
  • No
RGB Lighting: No
PS5 Compatible: No

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Notes

Controller:

2 main cores using Cortex-R5 clocked at 667 MHz with CoXProcessor technology (one additional dual-core) Cortex-R5 clocked at a lower clock for better efficience.

NAND Die:

Read latency:
tR: 64µs (SBL)
tR: 80µs (ABL)
tPROG withoug Overhead: ~ 695µs (Avg) (~ 46 MB/s per die)
tPROG w/ ~25% Overhead: ~ 927µs (Avg) (~ 34.5 MB/s per die)
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