TeamGroup Delta Max White 1TB SSD Review

Introduction Planning out an elegant all-white build but also looking for a little flair? TeamGroup’s new Delta Max White Edition just might be what you have been looking for. Like its older brother, the Delta Max features the same performance with 560 MB/s read and 510MB/s write, support for various RGB pieces of software, and a large front RGB display. It has swapped out its black shell for one that’s bright white. The Delta Max White currently only comes in a 1TB configuration, which can be purchased at NewEgg for $131.99. We would like to thank TeamGroup for sending us the Delta MAX White Edition 1TB SSD to review. About TeamGroup Team Group Inc. was founded in 1997 in Taiwan and is one of the leading memory storage manufacturers in the world. They provide a variety of products such as Memory, Solid State Drives, SD Cards, USB drives, and mobile accessories. With their professional research and development teams, it allows them to produce high-quality and innovative products. TeamGroup is also well praised by the industry and customers by adhering to the corporate philosophy of “Integrity, Innovation, Professionalism, Efficiency, Discipline, and Simplicity.” Features and Specifications Notable Features: Translucent Aurora White Largest translucent area for you to switch at will Smart optimization The world’s first dual control interface Supports multiple lighting control software Technical Specifications: Model DELTA MAX WHITE RGB SSD Interface SATA III 6Gb/s Capacity 1TB Voltage DC +5V Operation Temperature 0°C ~ 70°C Weight 78g Dimensions 100(L) x 69.85(W) x 9.5(H)mm OperatingSystem Windows 10 / 8.1 / 8 / 7 / Vista, MAC OS 10.4 or later, Linux 2.6.33 or later MTBF 1000000 hours Terabyte Written 1TB / >800TB Performance ATTO / Crystal Disk Mark: 1TB Read: 560MB/s ; Write: 510MB/s IOPS: 1TB 4K Random Read/Write: 90K/80K IOPS Max Warranty 3-year limited warranty A Closer Look The Delta Max White Edition comes packed in a sleek black box accented with beams of colour and a shot of the Delta Max White featured front and center. The bottom of the box contains badges of all the compatible lighting software which includes Polychrome, RGB Fusion, and Aura Sync, just to name a few. Once the Delta Max has been removed from the package, the first thing that catches your eye is how bright white the unit is. Like the Black Edition, TeamGroup maintained their subtle branding with a faint T-Force logo in the center and “Delta Max” writing in the lower right corner. Flipping over the Delta Max reveals its warranty sticker, which has the serial number and mentions the Delta Max’s 3-year warranty. Looking to the side, we find the SATA data and power ports as well as a USB Micro B port. The Micro B port can be used for either the Micro B to 5V ARGB/USB 10 pin cable which is included with the Delta Max. In addition to the Delta Max itself and the cables mentioned above, it also includes a warranty guide and T-Force case badge. Once the Delta Max was installed on our test bench, the front RGB display lit up with bright blue, which matched the other configured RGB components. We liked that the White Edition had a translucent feel on the edges as opposed to the Black Edition which had a hard line between the body and display. Opening RGB Fusion we set the color mode to “Color Cycle” giving us a cool pastel rainbow look. System Configuration & Testing To test Delta MAX, we placed it on our bench as a secondary drive. The specifications of our system are as follows: CPU: i9 9900K Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro RAM: 2 x 8GB Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB @ 3200MHz GPU: MSI GTX 2060 Super OS Drive: Crucial P1 1000GB OS: Window 10 Professional X64 Before I started running some benchmarks on the drive, I used CrystalDiskInfo to check out some details of the Delta MAX. One difference we noticed was that the Delta Max White Edition didn’t report its temperature like the Black Edition we reviewed. This isn’t a concern as SSD temperature is rarely an issue, but figure it's something that should be noted. I will be running the drive through various benchmarking applications to see how it fairs under different workloads. These applications include: ATTO Disk Benchmark CrystalDiskMark 6.0 Anvil’s Storage Utilities AS SSD ATTO Disk Benchmark “As the industry's leading provider of high-performance storage & network connectivity products, ATTO has created a widely-accepted Disk Benchmark freeware utility to help measure storage system performance. As one of the top tools utilized in the industry, Disk Benchmark identifies performance in hard drives, solid-state drives, RAID arrays as well as connections to storage. Top drive manufacturers, like Hitachi, build and test every drive using the ATTO Disk Benchmark". ATTO shows us a peak write performance of 489MB/s and read performance of 537 MB/s. This is pretty much in line with the advertised write performance of 510MB/s and read performance of 560MB/s of the Delta Max. CrystalDiskMark 6.0 “CrystalDiskMark is designed to quickly test the performance of your hard drives. Currently, the program allows measuring sequential and random read/write speeds." In CrystalDiskMark, the Delta MAX White Edition pretty much matches its specification with 559MB/s read and 510MB/s write. Anvil's Storage Utilities “Anvil's Storage Utilities is a powerful tool that was designed to provide you with a simple means of assessing the read and write performance of your Solid State Drive or Hard Disk Drive. The benchmark tool helps you monitor and check the response time of your unit as well as view the system information collected using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). Anvil’s Storage Utilities has been designed to be the most comprehensive benchmark tool for Solid State Drives on the market. That does not mean that you can’t use it for conventional platter-based drives as well, but you do get the most out of the program when you test the speed and performance of SSDs with it. The program has gone through a series of beta and release candidate builds already and is currently available as Release Candidate 3. It is usually linked from this forum thread, which currently is not the case for the RC build which you can download here directly. You can’t use previous builds as they are set to expire automatically. You can run a benchmark right away by selecting a drive from the menu at the top right or check out the settings first to make sure everything is configured correctly here. Here you can simulate a compression level of the text file, e.g. database, application, or uncompressed, and whether you’d like to use the same test file on consecutive runs or generate a new one every time. As far as benchmarks go, you can run a standard SSD benchmark that is testing read, write, or both performances of the drive, or run threaded IO benchmarks only.” Anvil is showing our sequential read/write speeds as well as 4K random read/write a little lower than you would expect, but that’s typical for this benchmark. AS SSD “The AS SSD benchmark determines the performance of Solid State Drives (SSD). The tool contains six synthetic and three copy tests. The synthetic tests determine the sequential and random read and write performance of the SSD. These tests are carried out without using the operating system cache. In Seq-test the program measures how long it takes to read a 1 GB file to write respectively. 4K test the read and write performance is determined at random 4K blocks. The 4K-64 corresponds to the test Third 4K procedure except that the read and write operations are distributed to 64 threads. This test should SSDs pose with Native Command Queuing (NCQ), differences between the IDE operation mode where NCQ is not supported, and the AHCI mode. The additional compression test can measure the power of the SSD in response to the compressibility of the data. This is especially for the controllers that use to increase the performance and life of the cell compression, important. In the first three synthetic tests and the compression test, the size of the text file 1 GB. Finally, the access time of the SSD is calculated, wherein the access to read over the entire capacity of the SSD (Full Stroke) is determined. The write access test, however, is done with a 1 GB big test file.” Speeds are right where we expect them to be for this benchmark since, like Anvil, it also tends to report lower speeds than we see in CrystalDiskMark. In the second benchmark, the Delta Max posts some great numbers, specifically with 918MB/s in the ISO test. Examining the AS SSD compression benchmark, we see a steady read speed of around 528MB/s and a write speed between 422MB/s and 475 MB/s. Final Thoughts and Conclusion Just like the Delta Max Black, the White Edition fires on all cylinders with excellent performance and stunning aesthetics. When considering the purchase of an RGB SSD, you would perhaps think that it’s over the top and a little flashy. But with Team Group’s Delta Max, that is not the case as the translucent white cover diffuses the light perfectly, making for an elegant-looking build. Not only does the White Edition of the Delta Max look great, but it also lives up to its specifications. In CrystalMark, the Delta Max benchmark effectively meets its rated speeds of 560MB/s read and 510MB/s write with it posting scores of 559MB/s and 510MB/s. It’s great to see that TeamGroup took the time to create a well-performing SSD and pushed the aesthetics to 11. Whether you are planning a themed white build or just looking to add a little more pop, check out Team Group’s new Delta Max White Edition. You will be glad you did. Great job, TeamGroup!

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