The Team Group Delta RGB SSD Review: Lite Performance, Light Drive
by Billy Tallis on September 26, 2018 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
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AnandTech Storage Bench - Light
Our Light storage test has relatively more sequential accesses and lower queue depths than The Destroyer or the Heavy test, and it's by far the shortest test overall. It's based largely on applications that aren't highly dependent on storage performance, so this is a test more of application launch times and file load times. This test can be seen as the sum of all the little delays in daily usage, but with the idle times trimmed to 25ms it takes less than half an hour to run. Details of the Light test can be found here. As with the ATSB Heavy test, this test is run with the drive both freshly erased and empty, and after filling the drive with sequential writes.
The average data rate from the Team Delta RGB when the Light test is run on a freshly erased drive is very good for a small SATA drive, but like most such small SSDs it does struggle some when the test is run on a full drive.
When the Light test is run on a full drive, the average and 99th percentile latencies from the Delta RGB are much higher than for larger drives or NVMe and high-end SATA 250GB-class drives. When freshly erased, the Delta RGB doesn't have any trouble keeping pace with other SATA drives.
The average read latency of the Delta RGB on the Light test is fine whether the drive is full or empty. The average write latency sticks out when the test is run on a full drive, but is still well below the levels of the DRAMless SSDs.
As with the average latency breakdown, 99th percentile read latency on the Light test isn't a problem for the Delta RGB and write latency is only an issue when the drive is full. The HyperX Fury RGB is in the opposite situation, with QoS problems on the read side only when the drive is full.
The energy used by the Delta RGB during the Light test is a bit lower than most SSDs of similar capacity, but the DRAMless SATA drives beat the Delta RGB despite their lower performance.
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crimson117 - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
What are some cases that would prominently display this SSD?Most I've seen hide the SSDs behind the motherboard tray...
rev3rsor - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
Some cases, like mine (Thermaltake Core X31, I have an Intel SSD and happen to like the skull), have mounts on the power supply shroud under the motherboard. The Phanteks Evolv Shift I'm eyeing also does, from memory, it's SFF with a less conventional layout, SSD mounts around the motherboard tray.Chaitanya - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
There are a tonne of cases from lots of manufacturers(Coolermaster, Nzxt, Phanteks, Fractal, etc..) which allow for the ssd to be shown off. Generally there are ssd mounting points near now removed 5.25in drive bay or on Psu shroud.The Chill Blueberry - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
Deepcool BARONKASE is perfect for this! Two SSD display mount and one of those is right above an RGB water flow meter wich would look awesome! I just did a build in this case with Kingston A400 ssds and they looked very dull :/usernametaken76 - Thursday, September 27, 2018 - link
Cooler Master MasterCase H500M would be one.sonny73n - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
Say this SSD has the best performance/dollar, I might get one but I’ll have to tear it apart and take out those stupid LEDs before installing it. However, it’s not worth the troubles. So to hell with the LED lightning trend.leexgx - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
You could just turn them off?Ratman6161 - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
i could care less about LED lighting and in fact for me, its a negative for anything that's got it, not a positive. What I care about is Price/performance. Given that, if looking for a SATA drive I see no reason to even consider anything other than the Samsung 860 Evo or the Crucial MX500. Personally I just went with the 1TB 860 Evo in M.2 format. That leaves me with my 512 GB 960 Evo as my OS drive and the 1 TB 860 EVO as a capacity driveeddman - Thursday, September 27, 2018 - link
"I do not care about LEDs, therefore I could NOT care less."milkod2001 - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
When you think you saw it everywhere they put RGB on SSD drives now. Omg.