Team Group Z540 2 TB

[W1zzard]

Team Group's Z540 PCI-Express Gen 5 SSD achieves incredible speeds, reaching up to 12 GB/s. Thanks to its well-designed cooling system, heat is effectively dissipated. Unlike competing Gen 5 SSDs that run their coolers at constant maximum speed, the Z540 lets you adjust fan speed through your motherboard BIOS.

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[FreedomEclipse]

Im wondering if the cooler is just for show/a way to bump up the cost.

How hot would it get if you stuck a low profile passive heatsink on there like this one?

If possible i would like for there to be a second thermal test with the small heatsink just for shits and giggles.

 

[Double-Click]

Really? I mean seriously...really? No. Just, no.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Im wondering if the cooler is just for show/a way to bump up the cost.

How hot would it get if you stuck a low profile passive heatsink on there like this one?

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If possible i would like for there to be a second thermal test with the small heatsink just for shits and giggles.

Those wouldn't help at all. This is a Gen 5 drive and the Phison controller runs hot.
I had something like that as the standard heatsinks that came with my previous motherboard and they wouldn't even prevent my KC3000 from thermal throttling.

 

[chrcoluk]

Another SSD not ready for market, what on earth is that contraption on top of it lol.

Is there a reason gen 5 SSDs have to be released now instead of when they work with a lower power controller? 10w is too much.

 

[W1zzard]

Im wondering if the cooler is just for show/a way to bump up the cost.

How hot would it get if you stuck a low profile passive heatsink on there like this one?

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If possible i would like for there to be a second thermal test with the small heatsink just for shits and giggles.

Throttling within 60 sec at full load. We're talking 10 W heat output

 

[Sandbo]

How about no

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

These gen 5 heatsinks are absolutely comical.

Throttling with 60 sec at full load. We're talking 10 W heat output

10w isnt that hard to dissipate. That's half the power output of a Pentium desktop chip, and I've successfully run those for hours of stress test with NO heatsink.

Assuming good contact, that silent heatsink should be plenty for most real world scenarios, especially when inside a case with actual airflow. Your biggest issue will be the tiny surface area of the controller, but it doesnt matter how big your heatsink is in that case.

 

[gurusmi]

In my new rig i will have two PCIe 5.0X4 drives with 2TB each installed. If they need more cooling than the motherboard offers i will integrate them into my watercooling loop. Then they have enough cooling power. 2 of those drives within a Raid-0-Volume will be really interesting. The datadrive also will be 2 SSD. PCIe 4.0x4 2TB in a Raid-0-Volume. According to the manufactorer the board supports that.

 

[cmguigamf]

How long until we circle back to SSD being as big/thick as HDDs?

 

[ymdhis]

It looks like some kind of motorized steampunk stapler.

 

[GerKNG]

How hot would it get if you stuck a low profile passive heatsink on there like this one?

it would probably crash/freeze at idle within 30-40 minutes. like other Gen 5 drives.

 

[SN2716057]

Maybe team group launches this one with their liquid cooled block..it makes more sense on these hot headed ssd's.
tp source / tg source

 

[QUANTUMPHYSICS]

If it's $300 then you mean $150 per TB.

 

[Icon Charlie]

Still too damned hot for my liking. My CPU does not run that high. Any of those sticks are going externally for myself.

 

[MachineLearning]

Small correction in opener

Team Group includes a three-year warranty with the Tiger Shark Elite SSD.

5-yr & not Tiger Shark.

Thank you for the review.

How long until we circle back to SSD being as big/thick as HDDs?

This HS already might be thicker

 

[Chry]

That's cool. Well, not literally.
Interesting to note how little SSDs affect game loading speeds.

 

[GerKNG]

That's cool. Well, not literally.
Interesting to note how little SSDs affect game loading speeds.

that may change with direct storage.
the direct storage benchmark on my 870 EVO (sata) P3 Plus (QLC NVMe) and SN850X (TLC NVMe) are apart by almost 10x.
the SATA drive needs 4.45 seconds to load.
the QLC around 0.85 seconds and the TLC drive 0.39 seconds. it's not a life changing difference but in a game like ratchet and clank it does make a big difference if every transition takes a couple seconds or a couple frames.

 

[W1zzard]

Small correction in opener

Fixed, thanks!

it would probably crash/freeze at idle within 30-40 minutes. like other Gen 5 drives.

No way it will last that long. Check my thermal testing in this review. The big Team Group cooler, with heatpipes, fins and a lots of mass and surface area, with fan stopped, runs into thermal throttle after 400 seconds.

Maybe team group launches this one with their liquid cooled block..it makes more sense on these hot headed ssd's.
tp source / tg source

My data shows that the current cooler is perfectly adequate. We're abbreviating ourselves as TPU btw

 

[Chrispy_]

10W is a lot for something that small. IIRC the Intel PCH chips that you can get away running bare are in the 2-3W range.

There's no denying it's fast, but I don't think Phison's E26 is a particularly good product given the cooling constraints of a typical desktop M.2 slot, incompatibility of the heatsink with any and all mobile devices, and I'm not even sure how well it would fare in servers, not that you'd be using this SSD in a datacenter, but I'm sure there are E26-based enterprise drives out already.

Given the lack of demand for PCIe 5.0 speeds from applications, the unsuitability of every PCIe 5.0 drive I've seen for laptops (and most desktops), and of course the high prices - I've not really been following PCIe 5.0 controller development too carefully. Are Phison the only ones on the market at the moment? Presumably Samsung, Silicon Motion, and WD (Fusion-IO, Indilinx, sTec) will all have competing PCIe 5.0 offerings at some point. I'm not expecting companies like Marvell, Hynix, Innogrit, Maxiotek to chase PCIe 5.0 for a while, they're more focused on large-volume mainstream offerings I think....

 

[SN2716057]

Fixed, thanks!


No way it will last that long. Check my thermal testing in this review. The big Team Group cooler, with heatpipes, fins and a lots of mass and surface area, with fan stopped, runs into thermal throttle after 400 seconds.


My data shows that the current cooler is perfectly adequate. We're abbreviating ourselves as TPU btw

me sa sorry, it will never happen again

 

[theouto]

Holy cooler batman, just looked inside my pc and I actually don't know if I could fit something like that into mine lol, pcie5 ssds are insanely fast, but I am starting to wonder if we need them yet, or if it would be possible to wait until the heat output is way lower

 

[modmax]

ridicolo! raggiunge velocita di curvatura sotto elio liquido.....una buffonata

 

[Pepamami]

Another SSD not ready for market, what on earth is that contraption on top of it lol.

Is there a reason gen 5 SSDs have to be released now instead of when they work with a lower power controller? 10w is too much.

to use 2 Lines instead of 4? so u can use more SSD

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

to use 2 Lines instead of 4? so u can use more SSD

You can already do that with gen 4 drives, with no appreciable speed loss since 99.99% of circumstances there is no difference once you reach NVM3 3.0 speed.