Team Group Company brought to the exhibition Computex 2013 a new line of solid state drives Dark L3. As part of a series - three representatives 60, 120 and 240 GB.
SSD are in enclosures size 2.5 inches 7 mm thick and are designed for the interface SATA 6 Gb / s. They use a 19-nanometer flash memory MLC NAND and controller LSI SandForce SF-2281.
Declared by the manufacturer maximum read speed for all three models is the same and is 550 MB / s, but the write speed varies: in the case of models with 60 and 120 GB, it reaches 450 MB / s, in the case of models 240 GB - 500 MB / s.
Performance in reading random access block size of 4 KB is the same for all members of the series and is 35,000 operations per second (IOPS), while recording characteristics are different: younger model - 25,000 IOPS, middle and senior - 50,000 IOPS.
Dark L3 Series drives support TRIM, NCQ, SMART, provided a three-year manufacturer's warranty.