Team Group T-Force Cardea Liquid M.2 PCIe Gaming SSD
TeamGroup's T-Force Cardea Liquid M.2 PCIe Gaming SSD is specially built for the gaming/high-performance PC in which its unique water cooling system keeps its temperature in check.
While it's not a looped cooling device – despite using liquid cooling, it's still a stand-alone, closed device that does not require plugging into an open-loop system.
According to Team Group, its liquid cooling module is capable to reduce the temperature of the drive-by 10ºC when compared to an SSD without a heat sink.
The liquid cooling module relies on the self-circulation effect by separating the water block into two chambers. When the coolant in the chamber above the controller/memory gets hot, it flows to the second chamber to cool down. Essentially, the aluminum water block acts as a vapor chamber but uses a mainstream coolant instead of a specialized low boiling point liquid. This kind of cooler is cheap to make, and since it is shipped without any water inside (it's designed to be filled by the end-user), there is no risk of leakage during shipping. Because it's still a closed cooling system, the SSD and its cooling module still requires a good airflow inside the PC case to pull heat away and out of the system, but using a liquid to cool down a high-end SSD is indeed a creative method to avoid crashes due to overheating, and maintain a stable working system to offer gamers the finest and smoothest gaming experience.
The liquid-cooled SSD from Team Group is based on Phison's PS5012-E12 controller as well as 3D TLC NAND from an undisclosed manufacturer. When it comes to performance, the top-of-the-range 1 TB model of the T-Force Cardea Liquid will offer up to 3400 MB/s sequential read speed, up to 3000 MB/s sequential write speed (when pSLC caching works), up to 450K IOPS random read speed, and up to 400K IOPS random write speed.
Source: Anandtech, TeamGroup EDM
Brand: TEAMGROUP
Team Group T-Force Cardea Liquid M.2 PCIe Gaming SSD
TeamGroup's T-Force Cardea Liquid M.2 PCIe Gaming SSD is specially built for the gaming/high-performance PC in which its unique water cooling system keeps its temperature in check.
While it's not a looped cooling device – despite using liquid cooling, it's still a stand-alone, closed device that does not require plugging into an open-loop system.
According to Team Group, its liquid cooling module is capable to reduce the temperature of the drive-by 10ºC when compared to an SSD without a heat sink.
The liquid cooling module relies on the self-circulation effect by separating the water block into two chambers. When the coolant in the chamber above the controller/memory gets hot, it flows to the second chamber to cool down. Essentially, the aluminum water block acts as a vapor chamber but uses a mainstream coolant instead of a specialized low boiling point liquid. This kind of cooler is cheap to make, and since it is shipped without any water inside (it's designed to be filled by the end-user), there is no risk of leakage during shipping. Because it's still a closed cooling system, the SSD and its cooling module still requires a good airflow inside the PC case to pull heat away and out of the system, but using a liquid to cool down a high-end SSD is indeed a creative method to avoid crashes due to overheating, and maintain a stable working system to offer gamers the finest and smoothest gaming experience.
The liquid-cooled SSD from Team Group is based on Phison's PS5012-E12 controller as well as 3D TLC NAND from an undisclosed manufacturer. When it comes to performance, the top-of-the-range 1 TB model of the T-Force Cardea Liquid will offer up to 3400 MB/s sequential read speed, up to 3000 MB/s sequential write speed (when pSLC caching works), up to 450K IOPS random read speed, and up to 400K IOPS random write speed.
Source: Anandtech, TeamGroup EDM
Brand: TEAMGROUP