The Team Group MS30 M.2 SATA solid-state drive is a next-generation M.2 high-speed solid-state drive. It provides desktops and mobile computing devices excellent storage performance in ultra-compact and lightweight package. The Wear Leveling, advanced garbage collection, TRIM command and power-saving function work behind the scene to improve your working efficiency and drive lifespan.
Team Group's MS30 M.2 SATA solid-state drive uses the latest SATA III 6Gb/s transfer interface and offers excellent transfer efficiency and compatibility. For different environment usage, MS30 comes in two sizes, 22x80mm and 22x42mm, and both of them are fully compliant with the M.2 specification. In addition, the capacity is increased to 1TB, which is capable of satisfying all kinds of specification requirements for motherboards, laptops, mobile devices and developing embedded devices.
Intel Smart Response Technology is supported. MS30 M.2 SATA solid-state drives allows each user to set their drive as the cache memory between the hard disk drive (HDD) and the computer, so hard drives with higher capacities can have a fast response time and improve overall working efficiency.
MS30 M.2 SATA solid-state drive supports advanced garbage collection, wear leveling, TRIM command and power saving function of the next generation. It provides an excellent solution for performance, power efficiency and service life.
Pros: -Faster than a traditional hard drive, obviously. -M.2 interface. -Inexpensive. -Performs slightly better than advertised. I managed to achieve 530MBps read/440MBps write with this 256gb which is only advertised at 500/400. Pretty good for a SATA interface drive.
Cons: -Team Group's SSD software is atrocious. The data migration utility does not work at all and it is otherwise completely featureless and not useful at all.
Overall Review: Be warned: This drive does NOT have an onboard RAM cache. This will result in a lot more wear and tear on the drive. That combined with the mediocre 60TBW means that this drive is not for you if you plan to do heavy work loads. If simply using as an OS drive, I recommend moving your page file to another drive at minimum. With similar, better NVMe drives being around this price you should look into those if possible. If, like me, you're limited by the compatibility of the PC you're working on then this is a good alternative for a decent price.