Summary
The TEAMGROUP PD20 is an extremely fast portable SSD with excellent sequential read and write performance. It’s well designed, amazingly light and seems durable.
The PD20 gets my seal of approval. Compared to a USB 3.2 Gen 2×1 SSD, the PD20 is at least double the best speed using a Gen 2×2 port. You can get faster drives with Thunderbolt or USB 4.0, but they cost significantly more.
The internal SSD in the TEAMGROUP is NVMe and uses TLC. Benchmark and bare drive everyday performance of the 2TB drive was consistent with a 20 Gbps while caching data. When the NAND is written off cache, TLC helps maintains good performance. It’s much better than drives with QLC.
There’s no support for hardware encryption, but software encryption is, of course, available.
If you don’t have a Gen 2×2 port, the PD20 won’t deliver the promised 2,000MB/s transfer speeds, and buying this over something cheaper that supports USB 3.2 Gen 2×1 is a false economy.
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction and Specifications
Page 2 – Benchmarks
Page 3 – Summary