TeamGroup NV5000 Review: An M.2 SSD Only Worth Buying Marked Down

The TeamGroup NV5000 is built in the M.2 Type-2280 “gumstick” form factor, which is common among today’s internal SSDs. It employs the NVMe protocol over its PCIe 4.0 bus. (Baffled by some of these terms? Check out our glossary of SSD terminology.)

The NV5000 is a four-lane PCI Express (PCIe) 4.0 drive that utilizes 3D NAND flash memory. The NV5000 lacks a dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) cache, relying on the computer’s own memory (host memory buffer, or HMB) instead. The DRAM-less architecture helps…