Introduction

Team Group is a well-known Taiwanese hardware manufacturer with a long history of catering to the needs of enthusiasts and gamers from all over the globe. Their lineup includes DRAM memory and solid-state drives, and they also offer various memory cards and USB thumb drives.

Today, we are reviewing the Team Group T-Create Expert SSD, which is rated for an astonishing 12,000 TBW in the reviewed 2 TB version. Yeah, you read that right, twelve-thousand terabytes, or 12 Petabytes. On top of that, Team Group offers a 12 year warranty for the drive—an industry first, too. Please note that “T-Create” is a group of products, not the name of this product. There’s also a T-Create “Classic”, this review covers the T-Create “Expert”.

Under the hood, the T-Create Expert uses a Silicon Motion SM2262ENG controller paired with 64-layer 3D TLC flash from Micron. Yup, that’s right—standard flash that has been on the market for a long time, no secret sauce here. I can imagine that Team Group is using some firmware tweaks to improve endurance, but so far, I haven’t seen anything that would support the super high TBW claim. As expected, DRAM is present, too, two chips are installed to provide 2 GB of storage for the mapping tables of the SSD.

The Team Group T-Create Expert comes in capacities of 1 TB ($400) and 2 TB ($800). Endurance for these models is set to 6000 TBW and 12000 TBW respectively. As mentioned before, Team Group includes a twelve-year warranty with the T-Create Expert.