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

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ATTO Disk Benchmark

TEAMGROUP MP34 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD Review ATTO Benchmark

In the screenshot above you can see all of the ATTO data for the TEAMGROUP MP34.  ATTO reveals some useful information. 

Firstly, the rated speed for write is 1700 MB/s, and you can see that we hit that mostly throughout the testing.  It’s on the upper-side of 1770 MB/s actually.  Then it jumps up on larger block sizes up to 2300 MB/s and of course bursts as high as we saw with CrystakDiskMark.  This shows that write speeds are solid, and can and do operate above spec.  The same is true for read speeds, here it’s above 3000 MB/s at 3130 MB/s on the larger block sizes.

TEAMGROUP MP34 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD Review ATTO Benchmark Graph
TEAMGROUP MP34 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD Review ATTO Benchmark Graph

Though the other two SSDs can handle different block sizes better, the TEAMGROUP MP34 is still technically operating at as advertised, even better really.

DiskBench

A specific kind of test we performed is the drive performance copying large files from one location on the drive to another location.  We are not transferring between drives; we are copying a file in one folder on the drives and copying it to a new folder location on the drive.  This is a pure file copy, on the same drive.  This should stress the SSD’s performance in a unique way.  We tested a 100GB file, a 10GB file, and a 1GB file.  We are measuring performance and the time it took to copy. 

TEAMGROUP MP34 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD Review DiskBench File Copy Graph
DiskBenchDisk

First is a disk copy of a 100GB file.  Here the lower number is better, in minutes.  The TEAMGROUP MP34 512GB PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD performed the slowest in the 100GB file copy, it took 4.6 minutes to copy the 100GB file from one location to another on the SSD from the same SSD.  This is of course much faster than SATA drives, by half, but the SAMSUNG 970 EVO and XPG SX8100NP SSDs were faster by several minutes.  

Keep in mind that the 512GB TEAMGROUP SSD is fuller when 100GB of its total capacity is used, and then copy that and now half the drive is full.  Whereas with the other drives 1TB and 2TB their capacity is not full.  This will affect the DRAM cache and how much it has to write to read from and flush.  This could be slowing down the TEAMGROUP SSD due to the file size consuming such much capacity in this specific test, so let’s see what happens with smaller file sizes.

TEAMGROUP MP34 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD Review DiskBench File Copy Graph

In this graph, we are looking at the time to completion for the 10GB file copy.  This is a much smaller file size, and look at what happens to the TEAMGROUP MP34’s performance with this smaller file size.  It is now the fastest performer!  It copies the file in 5.8 seconds versus 7.5 seconds on the SAMSUNG 970 EVO. 

TEAMGROUP MP34 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD Review DiskBench File Copy Graph

The same pattern continues with the smaller 1GB file, it copies the file at 0.3 seconds, same as the SAMSUNG 970 EVO.  The two tests above prove that working with smaller file sizes is faster on the TEAMGROUP MP34, this could be attributed to the faster DDR4 DRAM.

AJA System Test

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 MP34 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD Review AJA System Test Benchmark

The read performance is 3060 MB/s, which is exactly on par with the rated spec for this TEAMGROUP MP34 SSD.  The write speed clocked in at 2300 MB/s, which again exceeds the spec of 1700 MB/s but also aligns with our performance testing of write performance, which seems to be above average for this particular SSDs specs.  These results are very good and just another benchmark that continues to prove the results we have experienced in our other tests.

HDTune Read Consistency

We want to show HDTune read consistency testing below, not for the benchmark result, it gave us (because frankly, that isn’t correct) but to show you how consistent the read performance is over the capacity of the drive.

TEAMGROUP MP34 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD Review HDTune Read

As you can see, the performance numbers it is showing isn’t really correct for our experiences, not sure why. However, the important part here, and the reason we are showing you this screenshot, is to show you how flat-lined and consistent the read performance is across the capacity of the drive. It also shows how little CPU usage is used while churning the SSD full-on. This is a good consistency graph.

Aida64 Write Consistency

In a similar vein, we also wanted to show you the SSDs write consistency when the drive volume is not mounted. This is Aida64’s Linear Write test. What this shows is typical for TLC NAND Flash.

TEAMGROUP MP34 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD Review Aida64 Write

The key thing here is that we are constantly writing to the drive, across the whole capacity of the SSD at once. This doesn’t give the SSD a chance to fully utilize the SLC or DRAM buffers. Therefore for a TLC based NAND Flash, this kind of performance is expected. We do peak at the top-end of the burst write speeds, and then once the cache is flushed it settles. However, even within that kind of performance it is still consistent in its own right. This could be worse, we’ve seen drives jump from high to low performance in large huge swings, this one is relatively consistent in its linear performance, it has a consistent peak and valley as the data is written. This is good, because the same as the read it is predictable, and consistent.

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