File Copy and Workstation Performance
DiskBench
With DiskBench we run two different tests. First, we place a 50GB single file onto the test drive. We copy this file from the test drive to a new folder on the test drive, volume to volume. This tests the performance of the drive’s ability to copy a single large file from itself to itself as if you were copying files on the same drive, it replicates this drive being your primary and only drive. Second, we do the same thing but with the SteamLibrary folder. The SteamLibrary folder is a 243GB folder containing 570 smaller files. This replicates a folder with varying different file sizes and copying those files.
Copying a large 50GB file from volume to volume on the TEAMGROUP T-FORCE CARDEA A440 Lite 2TB SSD results in a slightly below-average result of 16.76 seconds. This puts it slightly slower than the A440 Pro, which was a bit faster. It’s also slower than the Teamgroup MP44, but faster than the Netac NV7000, Lexar NM800 Pro, and Samsung 990 Pro.
When copying a very large Steam Library folder, we can see where the TEAMGROUP T-FORCE CARDEA A440 Lite 2TB SSD falls a bit behind in performance. It takes the TEAMGROUP T-FORCE CARDEA A440 Lite 2TB SSD 3.4 minutes to copy the folder, which is the second slowest time. This is where the CARDEA A440 Pro picks up the slack and is able to do it in 1.5 minutes, which puts the TEAMGROUP T-FORCE CARDEA A440 Lite 2TB SSD at a 56% performance disadvantage with this task. If there is one negative area in regard to performance with the TEAMGROUP T-FORCE CARDEA A440 Lite 2TB SSD, it is in this type of workload, and thus we can see what that cost-savings results in.
SPECworkstation 3.1
We are using SPECworkstation 3.1 and specifically the WPCstorage test. “The storage workload is based on storage transaction traces from a wide variety of professional applications engaged in real work.” It includes media and entertainment, product development, life sciences, energy, and general operations. Each program receives a score, and they are averaged together for an overall score, higher is better.
In SPECworkstation 3.1 WPCstorage testing, the TEAMGROUP T-FORCE CARDEA A440 Lite 2TB SSD does remarkably well surprisingly. It is not in the lower 3 range, but rather the upper 6 range here, matching the A440 Pro and Lexar NM800 Pro SSDs in performance. From a drive that isn’t a “Pro”, the TEAMGROUP T-FORCE CARDEA A440 Lite 2TB SSD is doing very well and beats the other SSDs by quite a bit.