Is this SSD any Good?

[23dexter89]

Hi Forum,

Planning to get a new SSD for my PC.
So far i've been looking for a 500GB solution.
But recently I came across this SSD (Team Group L3 EVO) unit at the same price point as the 500GB Samsung (850 Pro) I was looking at and the capacity is 960GB!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820313666&cm_re=Team_Evo_L3_960GB-_-20-313-666-_-Product

Never heard of this brand before, and there aren't any reviews about them on the web.

so my question is should I get this one or stick with the 850 EVO pro?

 

[13thmonkey]

The colour scheme would put me off.

From the point of view of user experience any SSD is massively better than a HDD, and you'll feel the difference. By the specs it's up there with the good SSDs, it's got a reasonable warranty and 960 is better than 500.

So in my opinion, providing it does what it says there'll be little perceivable difference. The only question then is around quality.

 

[23dexter89]

That is the same Question i'm having.

Its Very Cheap for the given capacity. What makes it even more suspicious is the fact that there aren't ANY reviews on the product on the internet.

I'm planning on building a brand new rig with more than a few years (3-5 years) of life span in mind so reliability is a must.

What do you think?

 

[13thmonkey]

mostly marketing speil, but some information in there, been going since 1997.
http://hexus.net/tech/items/storage/86549-team-group-introduces-all-new-l3-evo-ssd-upgraded-capacity-performance/
https://www.techpowerup.com/216052/team-group-announces-l3-evo-series-ssd.html
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/team-group-launches-l3-evo-series-ssd.html

You or I could contact an OEM and ask them to make us one and buy a batch of 10,000 or whatever, it's why they all perform so similarly there are only about 3-4 different sets of innards.

With regards to failures, that'll be just bad luck, it's rare enough that you'll be unlucky, or not. My crucial M4 just failed, in it's days it was highly rated, it's been lightly used. Plan for failure, create daily backups onto other hardware (another disk is bare minimum).