The Teamgroup T-Force Cardea Zero Z340 is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched on April 15th, 2020. It is available in capacities ranging from 256 GB to 4 TB. This page reports specifications for the 1 TB variant. With the rest of the system, the Teamgroup T-Force Cardea Zero Z340 interfaces using a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the PS5012-E12S-32 from Phison, a DRAM cache chip is available. Teamgroup has installed 96-layer TLC NAND flash on the T-Force Cardea Zero Z340, the flash chips are made by Micron. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are handled more quickly. The cache is sized at 28 GB, once it is full, writes complete at 1050 MB/s. The T-Force Cardea Zero Z340 is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 3,400 MB/s and 3,000 MB/s write; random IO reaches 450K IOPS for read and 400K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 140 USD. 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.