Question TeamGroup T-Force Z440 lite or Cardea

[Mac029]

Adding an SSD to a Lenovo LOQ 15 (intel) and looking for feedback on these sticks: Z440 lite and Cardea zero Z440 , both in 1TB. Use? Let me stick with only gaming for now, and I will play older games. The only other stick I was considering was the Kingston KC3000.

I find very little online reviewing the 'Lite' but think it could work well for me, even with using system ram instead of having a cache. Don't think heat will be much of an issue for me.


Thanks in advance for any input,

Mac

 

[Lutfij]

Lenovo LOQ 15 (intel)
Might want to pass on the SKU to your LOQ laptop.

I'd advise on avoiding Kingston KC3000's. Kingston's tend to have a high failure rate or so from what I've seen. I would go for this drive;

CARDEA ZERO Z440 M.2 PCIe SSD 1TB | TEAMGROUP

CARDEA ZERO Z440 uses the latest and fastest PCIe Gen4 x4 interface and complies with the NVMe 1.3 standard. The sequential read/write speed can reach a whopping 5,000/4,400 MB/s.

www.teamgroupinc.com

In fact that series is best in terms of performance, provided your slot isn't PCIe 3.0 and is indeed PCIe 4.0;
https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/LOQ/LOQ_15IRH8/LOQ_15IRH8_Spec.pdf
Looks like it.

You're good to go with your PCIe 4.0 SSD purchase.

 

[Mac029]

Apologies for the late reply, not sure whey TH isn't sending emails. That was the other 'stick' I was also considering. My sku is 82XV0095US. Definitely like all 3 of these TeamGroup 1 TB's over the Patriot Viper VP 4100 in that size, among others.

Thank you Luthj.