During this years Computex Team Group 2017 has been showing their Cardea-Z NVMe SSD, which is based on PCIe 3.0 x4 interface and NVMe 1.2 protocol. In order to keep the temperatures low, Team Group has placed an aluminum heatsink on top of it.

The new Team Group Cardea-Z NVMe SSD should be available with 240GB and 480GB. Since this SSD is based on MLC NAND flash memory, the performance is supposed to be somewhere in the high-tier compared to other NVMe drives. Sequentially reading these drives should hit up to 2'650MB/s and 1'450MB/s for sequential writes. In the case of random performance it’s supposed to reach 180,000 IOPS 4k for random accesses.

The Cardea-Z features the same PCB, the same controller and the same NAND flash as the original Cardea. Team Group replaced the chunky heatsink with an aluminium heat spreader. This makes the drive compatible with notebooks and SFF desktops. So far Team Group has not revealed details on pricing and availability regarding their Cardea-Z but we are sure we will know more during next months.




Source: Techpowerup