Summary
We are impressed by the performance of the TEAMGROUP QX 2TB drive both running an operating system as well as a storage drive bearing in mind its price. It delivers good all-around performance, good sustained performance, and it’s power-efficient.
For a SATA III SSD with no DRAM cache, it’s small file read and write performance is first rate. After benchmarking the test, we then used the SSD to host Ubuntu 24.04 LTS beta and then Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. It performs admirably running Ubuntu.
As a storage drive, the drive received our test folder of over 100GB (all different file sizes) with a write speed of 465 MB/s, easily beating the peers we tested.
The QX gets our strong recommendation if your machine doesn’t support NVMe drives or you can’t physically install any more internal NVMes.
Even if you don’t need 2TB of storage, it’s important to overbuy in terms of capacity with the vast majority of SSDs, as all but the most expensive SSDs slow down when the NAND cache is gone.
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction and Specifications
Page 2 – Benchmarks
Page 3 – Summary