14 DAY TRIAL // Just like Silicon Power did the other day with the T10 SSD, TeamGroup is introducing the A1 SSD, on its official website. This is an affordable model using the SATA II interface and a 128 MB of DDR cache memory.
While many of us still have some old computers lying around in the house that might benefit from an SSD upgrade, not even a single Softpedia reader would want to deal with the PHISON 3105 controller.
This controller is infamous for showing very low performance in many cases demonstrating results below what a normal HDD is able to do.
TeamGroup states that the PHISON 3105 controller is able to read data with speeds up to 270 MB/s and write at a maximum 210 MB/s. While this is true in a theoretical situation, in real life, the performance would heavily disappoint.
There is a likely possibility that newer firmware might allow TeamGroup’s new product to achieve a much higher aggregate performance than Patriot’s TORQX 2 that uses the same controller.
This will only be confirmed or disproved once the first reviews show up.
Pricing has not been made available yet.
