Over the past 5 years, SSD drives have come a long way from massive boxes operating at speeds of 550 MB / s to tiny and ultra-fast mini-computers with a multi-core management controller, multi-layer flash memory, PCI-E 4.0 bus support and line speeds up to more than 5000 MB/s. However, market analysis shows that despite all the progressiveness of compact M.2 SSDs, old-school 2.5" solid state drives are still in demand. Mainly as system drives in old PCs and laptops without M.2 support. These are the models that are coming out in the CX series from Team Group.


Typically, all solid state products in the Team Group CX family support wear leveling technologies, advanced hardware error correction, SMART monitoring, flexible power management and TRIM commands. Linear read and write speeds are limited by the capabilities of the SATA 3 bus and in most models are in the range from 430 to 520 MB/s. At the same time, they have fairly high IOPS indicators, which indicate how quickly the drive operates with arrays of small files.

The range of the series is represented by several similar models with memory variations from 240 to 1000 GB. All models are equipped with a 3-year warranty from the manufacturer, which, combined with a decent rewriting resource (800 TBW TB for the 1 TB model), allows you to look into the future with optimism. The most popular in the series is the CX2 SATA drive, built on the basis of a budget controller from Silicon Motion and 64-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory.