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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rrinker - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
Well, at least the LEDs don't kill the performance, so I guess that's a positive, at least compared to the HyperX. Now they just wreck the price/performance ratio. Again, I must just be an old fogey because I'd much rather chose the best performing piece of hardware at a given price point, instead of the fanciest looking. Should they correspond (not likely) then I guess I'd get the one with all the fancy lights and just not hook them up.khanikun - Thursday, September 27, 2018 - link
I think the problem is, is that it's more likely that they will eventually correspond. Not due to the price or anything being cheaper to produce, they just stop making the non-RGB version, cause higher profit margin.They'll make the best performance item, lace it with RGBs, call it Gamer something, then charge a higher price. Then they make lower performance/lower feature versions. I'm already seeing that with motherboards. My last mobo was a Gigabyte and to get the chipset and features I wanted, it ended up being an RGB mobo. My new Gigabyte mobo, same thing, but no RGBs in the mobo, just RGB headers.
xrror - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
What would be fun is if Team Group sold just the shells and RGB LED part of this, and you put your own SSD inside it =)DyneCorp - Thursday, April 25, 2019 - link
Thanks for the review, Billy. Why do you think the Delta SSD has a quarter of the endurance of the SU800? Smaller SLC cache buffer? ADATAs more strenuous NAND binning process?