TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan 500GB 2.5 SATA SSD Review

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ATTO Disk Benchmark

TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan 500GB SSD ATTO Disk Benchmark
TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan 500GB SSD ATTO Disk Benchmark Read Graph

In the graph above is a graphical representation of the data from the ATTO Disk Benchmark Read test across all drives.  To see the specific numbers, please refer to the screenshot above this graph.  What we see from this graph is that the Mushkin Reactor does have a lower read speed across the board to the end.  The new TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan SSD actually has a slightly higher consistent read speed from 64KB to the end over the SAMSUNG 860 EVO, which is impressive.  The TeamGroup SSD got up to 526 MB/s in the read speed test.    

TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan 500GB SSD ATTO Disk Benchmark Write Graph

In this graph, we are looking at the write speed in graph form.  It is clear that the SAMSUNG 860 EVO does have a higher consistent write speed, but in reality, the results very close together.  What’s not together is the Mushkin Reactor write speeds, it’s much slower around 400 MB/s writes.  The new TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan SSD smashes the write speed of the Mushkin Reactor SSD and comes very close to the SAMSUNG 860 EVO, so this is impressive.

AJA System Test

TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan 500GB SSD AJA System Test Benchmark

We are introducing a new test to our benchmark suite for SSDs, AJA System Test.  This one is unique; it tests actual high-quality video and its ability to stream from the SSD.  For our test we are using the 3840×2160 (4K) Ultra HD video setting with a 4GB file size and 10-bit YUV color.  We found this test to be very unique in testing performance.

TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan 500GB SSD AJA System Test Benchmark Graph

According to this benchmark, the TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan SSD is on top in read performance at 520 MB/s.  There might be some caching here since this does exceed the maximum 510 MB/s read speed, though we did select the option to disable any caches, and we tested and re-tested this.  The SAMSUNG 860 EVO and the MUSHKIN REACTOR both came in with 517 MB/s of read. 

On the write speed, the SAMSUNG 860 EVO is slightly faster at 463 MB/s write, which tracks with other results we have done.  The TeamGroup SSD follows it very closely at 450 MB/s.  The Mushkin Reactor falls way behind both, so the write tests are in-line with other benchmarks. 

Brent Justicehttps://www.thefpsreview.com
Former managing editor of GPUs at HardOCP for 18 years, Brent Justice has been reviewing computer components since the late 90s, educated in the art and method of the computer hardware review, he brings experience, knowledge, and hands-on testing with a gamer-oriented and hardware enthusiast perspective. You can follow him on Twitter - @Brent_Justice You can sub to his YouTube channel - Justice Gaming https://www.youtube.com/c/JusticeGamingChannel You can check out his computer builds on KIT - @BrentJustice https://kit.co/BrentJustice

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