Teamgroup T-Force Cardea A440 Pro Special Series 1TB SSD Review

The PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark uses a wide-ranging set of real-world traces from popular applications and common tasks to fully test the performance of the fastest modern drives. The benchmark is designed to measure performance of fast system drives using the SATA bus at the low end and devices connected via PCI Express at the high end.

The goal of the benchmark is to show meaningful real-world performance differences between fast storage technologies such as SATA, NVMe, and Intel’s Optane. The Full System Drive Benchmark uses 23 traces, running 3 passes with each trace. It typically takes an hour to run.

Traces used:

Booting Windows 10.
Adobe Acrobat – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Illustrator – starting the application until usable Adobe Premiere Pro – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Photoshop – starting the application until usable.
Battlefield V – starting the game until the main menu.
Call of Duty Black Ops 4 – starting the game until the main menu.
Overwatch – starting the game until main menu.
Using Adobe After Effects.
Using Microsoft Excel.
Using Adobe Illustrator.
Using Adobe InDesign.
Using Microsoft PowerPoint.
Using Adobe Photoshop (heavy use).
Using Adobe Photoshop (light use).
cp1 Copying 4 ISO image files, 20 GB in total, from a secondary drive to the target drive (write test).
cp2 Making a copy of the ISO files (read-write test).
cp3 Copying the ISO to a secondary drive (read test).
cps1Copying 339 JPEG files, 2.37 GB in total, to the target drive (write test).
cps2 Making a copy of the JPEG files (read-write test).
cps3 Copying the JPEG files to another drive (read test).

The drive averaged 236MB/s for the six Adobe startup tests in PCMark10 and 436MB/s for the five using Adobe test traces. The best score in this range of tests was the 1,046MB/s for the Adobe Photoshop (heavy use) trace.

The Teamgroup T-Force Cardea A440 Pro Special Series scored 3,888MB/s, 3,796MB/s and 3,496MB/s in the three iso read/write (cp1, cp2 and cp3) test traces.

The overall bandwidth result for the drive of 479.54MB/s is good enough for fifth place on the results chart and is 115MB/s faster than Teamgroup's first-generation Gen4 drive, the T-Force Cardea Zero Z440.

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