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Smart Wizard
Get a complete build plan based on budget and goals.
Build Comparison
Compare complete builds side by side.
Part Comparison
Check specs, price, and value across parts.
Bottleneck Calculator
Measure CPU and GPU balance before you buy.
Power Calculator
Estimate wattage and PSU headroom.
Will It Run?
Test your hardware against popular games.
Smart Wizard
Get a complete build plan based on budget and goals.
Build Comparison
Compare complete builds side by side.
Part Comparison
Check specs, price, and value across parts.
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Measure CPU and GPU balance before you buy.
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TeamGroup

Performance, endurance, NAND architecture, thermals, and compatibility.
| Merchant | Price |
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| Availability |
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Newegg | $276.99 | $0.277 | In Stock | $276.99 | Buy |
About This Product
The TeamGroup T-Force Cardea Z540 is a 1TB PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe SSD, offering sequential read speeds up to 9558 MB/s and write speeds up to 3392 MB/s. This drive is suitable for users requiring high-bandwidth storage for demanding applications, large file transfers, and future-proof systems. While its sequential read performance is competitive for a PCIe 5.0 drive, its write speeds are lower than some other premium PCIe 5.0 SSDs in its price bracket.
Verdict
βGood for early adopters needing high read speeds on a PCIe 5.0 platform.β
Performance, endurance, NAND architecture, thermals, and compatibility.
Sequential, random, and sustained speeds.
Sequential Read
9,558 MB/s
Sequential Write
3,392 MB/s
4K Random Read
2K IOPS
4K Random Write
2K IOPS
How long the drive lasts under sustained writes.
TBW (lifetime writes)
600 TB
Drive Writes/Day
0.33 DWPD
calculated from TBW
MTBF
1.7M hours
Warranty
5 years
Controller, NAND, and cache β what most retailers don't show you.
DRAM Cache
Yes (1024 MB)
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