TEAMGROUP MP34 512GB PCIe 3.0 NVMe M.2 SSD Review

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TEAMGROUP SSD S.M.A.R.T. Tool

TEAMGROUP has a new application for its SSDs, the software is called SSD S.M.A.R.T. Tool, the latest version is 0.1.3.0 dated 9/9/2020.

In the first tab, Disk Info, it shows the Model Name, Firmware version, Serious Number, Transfer Mode, Capacity, Health Status, Temperature and Features.  You can see above ours has Firmware 42B4S87A installed.  Unfortunately, there is no way to check from here if this is the latest firmware version.  Also, as far as we can see there are no options to have the software download the new software and install it. 

You will notice it lists our Transfer Mode correctly, PCIe 3.0 x4, in this way we can verify it’s running as it should.  Being able to monitor the health of the drive is good as well.  Below that is information about the S.M.A.R.T. status of the drive.  If you click the down/up button it brings up another window showing the Interface Standard, in our case NVM Express 1.3.  It also shows Host Reads/Writes of the drive.

The System Info tab merely gives you an overview of your system specs.  It allows you to also open the Disk Manager and Device Manger from here.  The performance tab allows you to do some performance testing.  It has a “Quick Test” or if you uncheck it does a longer test.  You can look at the results in MB/s, MiB/s, IOPS and Latency.  In the first performance run we did the quick test, and the second is the longer test.  We had a more accurate result from the longer test run.  Finally, the About tab lets you link to TEAMGROUP to learn about other hardware. 

The big thing missing from this program is really the Firmware check and download and install option for this SSD.  It also lacks any kind of alarm or warning option if health drops below a certain percentage.

Installation

TEAMGROUP MP34 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD Review CrystalDiskInfo

On some manufacturer SSDs the manufacturer provides a specific NVMe storage driver to help performance, optimization and facilitate bug fixes.  This drive has no specific NVMe driver.  It utilizes the default Windows NVMe driver.  Installation was very simple, we installed the drive and set it up in Disk Manager and it worked without any problems. 

Here is a screenshot of CrystalDiskInfo about the SSD.  You will see it is operating at PCIe 3.0 x4 on NVMe 1.3.  It supports S.M.A.R.T., TRIM and VolatileWriteCache.

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