Teamgroup Z540 review: A worthy silver-medalist SSD
At a glance
Expert's Rating
Pros
PCIe 5.0
Up to 4TB in capacity (soon)
Second-fastest SSD we’ve tested overall
Cons
Not particularly cheap
Our Verdict
The Teamgroup Z540 is a worthy competitor for the PCIe 5.0 performance crown. It’s not cheap, but it’s extremely fast.
Teamgroup’s most excellent Z540 SSD narrowly missed taking the top performance spot among PCIe 5.0 NVMe drives. It’s also priced competitively against the PCIe 5.0 competition. All told, it’s a worthy contender for your storage bucks.
Further reading: See our roundup of the best SSDs to learn about competing products.
What are the Teamgroup Z540’s features?
The T-Force Z540 (T-Force TM8FF1002T) is a 2280 (22mm wide, 80mm long) form factor, NVMe 1.4, four-lane (x4) PCIe 5.0 SSD. It utilizes a Phison PS5026-E26-52 controller to move data to and from its 232–layer, 3D NAND via 2GB of DRAM cache per terabyte of NAND.