Final Words & Conclusion
Final Words & Conclusion
The T-Force Vulcan series is yet another SATA3 SSD like many others, based on a reputable controller paired with TLC NAND. These can be purchased a dime a dozen these days as the market is saturated and fierce. And that is actually a really good thing for us consumers. Overall the SSD performed as expected on all fronts. After many writes at you might stumble into a TLC/QLC write hole but before that happens you need to have written a many dozen or so GB at a time. We wrote over 110GB continuously, and the SSD kept writing at ~400+ MB/sec
Concluding
The Vulcan SSD is not a complicated product to review as we have tested dozens of comparable units. The performance as well is as expected. You'll see linear and sustained reads in that 500 MB/s marker, writes as well. However as soon as you change to extremely long or complex workloads, the perf at one point will drop. We, unfortunately, have no TBW values available as TeamGroup is not listing them. Being TLC and with this SM controller, we have no doubt it'll last you many many years. The warranty will be three years by the way. If you can pick up the Vulcan SSD cheap enough it could be a very nice value product. Of course with the recent developments in NVMe, the performance of these drives pales away a bit. But for your generic OS and game usage with an SSD like this, you get 90% the same experience as a way better price level.
So yes, overall this is your normal TLC SSD with the pros and cons that come with it. It is a very decent product from a reputable and growing brand. Now, I have spotted the 500 GB version for 64 EUR, so that is only 13 cents per GB. The tested 1TB model I was able to find at a street price of 112 EUR (lowest price found), so that's 11 cents per GB. That's pretty good value. I would not hesitate to use one of these SSDs for a mainstream PC/laptop OS drive or game storage drive. Also at these prices, it is really nice to add in another 1 TB in your PC of course. And also, we're slowly getting to that point where we can start using SSDs into NAS servers. Definitely approved as this is ane excellent value proposition.
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