The Teamgroup L5 Lite 3D is a solid-state drive in the 2.5" form factor, launched on September 13th, 2017. It is available in capacities ranging from 120 GB to 1 TB. This page reports specifications for the 480 GB variant. With the rest of the system, the Teamgroup L5 Lite 3D interfaces using a SATA 6 Gbps connection. The SSD controller is the SM2258G from Silicon Motion, a DRAM cache chip is available. Teamgroup has installed 64-layer TLC NAND flash on the L5 Lite 3D, the flash chips are made by Micron. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are handled more quickly. The L5 Lite 3D is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 470 MB/s and 420 MB/s write; random IO reaches 70K IOPS for read and 70K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 54 USD. The warranty length is set to three years, which is above average, but shorter than the five years offered by many other vendors. Teamgroup guarantees an endurance rating of 120 TBW, a relatively low value compared to other SSDs.