**Team Group SSD Review: A Unique Option for RGB Enthusiasts**

Rights which mixed with a three-year warranty isn't amazing compared to the competition I mean something like a Samsung 860 Evo which is a very high endurance drive but that's rated for 300 terabytes and has a five-year warranty so that is something that you should take into account.

And honestly, the selling point isn't anything other than the fact that it is a really good-looking drive. So let's get into the physical breakdown of the SSD now. On the front, it's got kind of like a mirror finish which looks really nice in my opinion. It's a fingerprint magnet, but they do include like a little cloth like a glasses cleaning cloth to clean it.

So you can clean it nicely after you've kind of mounted it in the system. But once you've got it installed in a system, it looks amazing. As you can see here in the waifu graphics card system, it looks really good, especially in a very colorful RGB system. I don't think it'll work as well in a more neutral system, but you can set the color to whatever you want.

It is addressable, and that's nice. But this isn't specifically a Team Group issue; this is just an RGB issue now. This is a SATA Drive, so it does have SATA power and SATA data. But you also need a USB connection to actually power the LEDs in the drive. So if you don't have that USB plugged in there's no RGB at all.

One thing to bear in mind with this SSD is that it comes with two versions of the USB cable. One of them connects to your motherboard via a front panel USB 2 header, and the other one connects via like a Wii 3-pin version of the RGB connector. The LEDs are only software controllable if you use that RGB header.

So what that means is that a bunch of motherboards which you know at a glance are compatible with the RGB on this SSD aren't necessarily in fact. I only had one motherboard that I could actually software control the LEDs with, and I had to connect it via like an adapter that you get in the box. Now that was really irritating.

But I think the best configuration for this drive is the standard RGB lighting. When you try and configure it, it doesn't look as good, I mean I know I'm demoing it on top of a PC under a table here so that's kind of why. But I mean I couldn't get it working in a system that I could move around or whatever.

But yeah, so I think leaving it in its standard configuration is when it looks the best now. I feel a bit bad making the RGB so incompatible with stuff rants in this video. But it's an SSD; it's got a data connection and it's got a power connection why can't you just run the LEDs through that? I don't know if that's possible.

Can't imagine that it would actually affect the performance of the drive. Don't know maybe I'm asking for too much here. And that brings us to the point where we should discuss how much this drive costs and whether or not you should actually buy one.

The 500 gig version which I tested here costs about $84, which for a 500 gig SSD at the end of 2019 is actually quite expensive now. The prices for SSDs are a bit weird at the moment because it's Black Friday so everything's on sale. But you can get a 500 gig version of the 860 Evo Samsung Drive for like 60 bucks.

The thing is though, if you want a fairly unique SSD to tie together your awesome-looking RGB PC, this is one of your only options and honestly it's a pretty good option. It looks really good and you know it's an SSD right. It performs pretty well as a boot drive.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ennow the fact that Sauter based SSDs kind of plateaued in performance around 2015 it's become very difficult for manufacturers to differentiate their drives from the competition however apparently team group really doesn't have that problem the SSD that we're looking at today is called the Delta max RGB from Team Group and it's actually the second RGB SST that they've ever made I think it looks a lot better than the first one the first one was like very aggressively gamer looking whereas this one looks more sleek and minimalistic now I just want to get this out of the way fairly early on in the video this isn't gonna be a very in-depth review of the SSD it's gonna be more like an overview I am gonna do some basic benchmarks just to validate the manufacturers claims but more than that it's gonna be more of let's look at the features and how well implemented are they and there's obviously gonna be a bit of an RGB rant sprinkled in there because you know it is my channel and it is RGB in my experience if you're a gamer using an SSD as a boot drive there isn't much of a difference between various drives on the market because like this which is called the SSD by Turo sious great named product this is the cheapest SSD that you can buy on Amazon Canada and honestly this thing performs great like I can't tell much of a difference between this as a boot drive for a gaming system and something like a Samsung 860 Evo as a boot drive for a gaming system and with some quick benchmarks I can see that the drive does actually deliver exactly what the manufacturer says that it would now while actually benchmarking the drive something weird did happen you can't actually monitor temperatures on this drive I tried two pieces of monitoring software the first one was crystal disk info and the second one was just hardware info and well neither of them were I then contacted team group to ask them why this was happening and they said that they actually disabled the temperature monitoring on this SSD they gave two reasons for this I think it's a bit weird but the reasons that they gave was one they feel the temperature monitoring on SSDs isn't that accurate and the second reason they gave was that temperature information can easily be faked in reviews which I don't know if I should take that as a personal insult or not so I was using a crystal disk mark and I used many different file sizes and ran each test like seven times or nine times and it was running for over an hour and I was still getting consistent performance results so I couldn't really get the drive to to actually thermally throttle although it was thermally in like the perfect situation the drive is right in front of a case with pretty good airflow two flat fans blowing straight on it and because I don't use heating in the winter in my house the ambient temperature was like 15 degrees inside now another thing that worries me a little bit in the spec sheet of this SSD is actually it's rated endurance now the 500 gig version which I was testing in this video is rated for a hundred and twenty terabytes worth of Rights which mixed with a three-year warranty isn't amazing compared to the competition I mean something like a Samsung 860 Evo which is a very high endurance drive but that's rated for 300 terabytes and has a five-year warranty so that is something that you should take into account and honestly the selling point isn't anything other than the fact that it is a really good-looking drive so let's get into the physical breakdown of the SSD now on the front it's got kind of like a mirror finish which looks really nice in my opinion it is a fingerprint magnet but they do include like a little a little cloth like a glasses cleaning cloth to clean it so you can clean it nicely after you've kind of mounted it in the system but once you've got it installed in a system it looks amazing as you can see here in the waifu graphics card system it looks really good especially in a very colorful RGB system I don't think it'll work as well in a more neutral system but you can set the color to whatever it is that you want it - it is it is addressable but here is where I get into my rant about RGB now this isn't specifically a team group issue this is just an RGB in general issue now this is a SATA Drive so it does have SATA power and SATA data but you also need a USB connection to actually power the the LEDs in in the drive so if you don't have that USB plugged in there's no RGB at all one thing to bear in mind with this SSD is that it comes with two versions of that USB cable one of them connects to your motherboard via a front panel USB 2 header the other one connects one via like a Wii 3-pin version of the RGB connector and the LEDs are only software controllable if you use that RGB header so what that means is that a bunch of motherboards which you know at a glance are compatible with the RGB on this SSD aren't necessarily in fact I only had one motherboard that I could actually software control the LEDs with and I had to connect it via like an adapter that you get in the box now that was really irritating but the thing is I think the best configuration for this drive is the standard RGB lighting like I think when you try and configure it it doesn't look as good I mean I know I'm demoing it on top of a PC under a table here so that's kind of why but I mean I couldn't get it working in a system that I could move around or whatever but yeah so I think leaving it in its standard configuration is when it looks the best now I feel a bit bad making the RGB is so incompatible with stuff rants in this video but it's an SSD it's got a data connection and it's got a power connection why can't you just run the LEDs through that I don't I'm not an engineer I don't know if that's possible can't imagine that it would actually affect the performance of the drive I don't know maybe I'm asking for too much here and that brings us to the point where we should discuss how much this drive costs and whether or not you should actually buy one now the 500 gig version which I tested here costs about $84 which for a 500 gig SSD at the end of 2019 is actually quite expensive now the prices for SSDs are a bit weird at the moment because it is Black Friday so everything's on sale but you can get a 500 gig version of the 860 Evo Samsung Drive for like 60 bucks the thing is though if you want a fairly unique SSD to tie together your awesome looking RGB PC this is one of your only options and honestly it's a pretty good option it looks really good and you know it before it's an SSD right it performs pretty well as a boot drive so let me know in the comments section below if you would buy an SSD like this or if you'd go with something like the Samsung 860 Evo instead anyway thank you very much for watching if you like this video like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one follow me on Twitch where I stream on Saturdays which is probably going to be later today a I've got an Instagram and Twitter and the discord server and until the next video byenow the fact that Sauter based SSDs kind of plateaued in performance around 2015 it's become very difficult for manufacturers to differentiate their drives from the competition however apparently team group really doesn't have that problem the SSD that we're looking at today is called the Delta max RGB from Team Group and it's actually the second RGB SST that they've ever made I think it looks a lot better than the first one the first one was like very aggressively gamer looking whereas this one looks more sleek and minimalistic now I just want to get this out of the way fairly early on in the video this isn't gonna be a very in-depth review of the SSD it's gonna be more like an overview I am gonna do some basic benchmarks just to validate the manufacturers claims but more than that it's gonna be more of let's look at the features and how well implemented are they and there's obviously gonna be a bit of an RGB rant sprinkled in there because you know it is my channel and it is RGB in my experience if you're a gamer using an SSD as a boot drive there isn't much of a difference between various drives on the market because like this which is called the SSD by Turo sious great named product this is the cheapest SSD that you can buy on Amazon Canada and honestly this thing performs great like I can't tell much of a difference between this as a boot drive for a gaming system and something like a Samsung 860 Evo as a boot drive for a gaming system and with some quick benchmarks I can see that the drive does actually deliver exactly what the manufacturer says that it would now while actually benchmarking the drive something weird did happen you can't actually monitor temperatures on this drive I tried two pieces of monitoring software the first one was crystal disk info and the second one was just hardware info and well neither of them were I then contacted team group to ask them why this was happening and they said that they actually disabled the temperature monitoring on this SSD they gave two reasons for this I think it's a bit weird but the reasons that they gave was one they feel the temperature monitoring on SSDs isn't that accurate and the second reason they gave was that temperature information can easily be faked in reviews which I don't know if I should take that as a personal insult or not so I was using a crystal disk mark and I used many different file sizes and ran each test like seven times or nine times and it was running for over an hour and I was still getting consistent performance results so I couldn't really get the drive to to actually thermally throttle although it was thermally in like the perfect situation the drive is right in front of a case with pretty good airflow two flat fans blowing straight on it and because I don't use heating in the winter in my house the ambient temperature was like 15 degrees inside now another thing that worries me a little bit in the spec sheet of this SSD is actually it's rated endurance now the 500 gig version which I was testing in this video is rated for a hundred and twenty terabytes worth of Rights which mixed with a three-year warranty isn't amazing compared to the competition I mean something like a Samsung 860 Evo which is a very high endurance drive but that's rated for 300 terabytes and has a five-year warranty so that is something that you should take into account and honestly the selling point isn't anything other than the fact that it is a really good-looking drive so let's get into the physical breakdown of the SSD now on the front it's got kind of like a mirror finish which looks really nice in my opinion it is a fingerprint magnet but they do include like a little a little cloth like a glasses cleaning cloth to clean it so you can clean it nicely after you've kind of mounted it in the system but once you've got it installed in a system it looks amazing as you can see here in the waifu graphics card system it looks really good especially in a very colorful RGB system I don't think it'll work as well in a more neutral system but you can set the color to whatever it is that you want it - it is it is addressable but here is where I get into my rant about RGB now this isn't specifically a team group issue this is just an RGB in general issue now this is a SATA Drive so it does have SATA power and SATA data but you also need a USB connection to actually power the the LEDs in in the drive so if you don't have that USB plugged in there's no RGB at all one thing to bear in mind with this SSD is that it comes with two versions of that USB cable one of them connects to your motherboard via a front panel USB 2 header the other one connects one via like a Wii 3-pin version of the RGB connector and the LEDs are only software controllable if you use that RGB header so what that means is that a bunch of motherboards which you know at a glance are compatible with the RGB on this SSD aren't necessarily in fact I only had one motherboard that I could actually software control the LEDs with and I had to connect it via like an adapter that you get in the box now that was really irritating but the thing is I think the best configuration for this drive is the standard RGB lighting like I think when you try and configure it it doesn't look as good I mean I know I'm demoing it on top of a PC under a table here so that's kind of why but I mean I couldn't get it working in a system that I could move around or whatever but yeah so I think leaving it in its standard configuration is when it looks the best now I feel a bit bad making the RGB is so incompatible with stuff rants in this video but it's an SSD it's got a data connection and it's got a power connection why can't you just run the LEDs through that I don't I'm not an engineer I don't know if that's possible can't imagine that it would actually affect the performance of the drive I don't know maybe I'm asking for too much here and that brings us to the point where we should discuss how much this drive costs and whether or not you should actually buy one now the 500 gig version which I tested here costs about $84 which for a 500 gig SSD at the end of 2019 is actually quite expensive now the prices for SSDs are a bit weird at the moment because it is Black Friday so everything's on sale but you can get a 500 gig version of the 860 Evo Samsung Drive for like 60 bucks the thing is though if you want a fairly unique SSD to tie together your awesome looking RGB PC this is one of your only options and honestly it's a pretty good option it looks really good and you know it before it's an SSD right it performs pretty well as a boot drive so let me know in the comments section below if you would buy an SSD like this or if you'd go with something like the Samsung 860 Evo instead anyway thank you very much for watching if you like this video like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one follow me on Twitch where I stream on Saturdays which is probably going to be later today a I've got an Instagram and Twitter and the discord server and until the next video bye