Product Showcase

Here we can see the PCB a little better and see the HP branded SM controller. With these you get the full TRIM support and garbage collection under Windows 7/8/10 or deleting files off, will result in LBAs being TRIMed. If you look all the way upwards you can see a LED array, this reacts to writes and reads, in idle the LEDs fades in and out.  We do not spot any extra data-protection here in case of a power failure. 

BW29F2T08EWHAF -- Look and thy shall find nothing, the NAND has been rebranded as well. This, however, is Micron NAND, TLC Toggle mode written Stacked Vertical NAND. You will find only two of these at the front-side holding 256GB per NAND chip )and then two at the rear side). Yeah, that's stacked 64-layer NAND for you matey, otherwise, you just cannot get so much storage volume in there.

 
Sitting in the middle is a NANYA nt5cc256m16dp-di chip, this would be low power LPDDR3 4Gb DRAM (256MB) chip is present for some extra DRAM caching.  The opposing side has another one, so that's a 512MB DRAM cache buffer for the 1TB model tested.
 

And down below as close as possible to the interface the controller, the HP PCIe-to NAND controller (HP H8038) to manage a full PCIe Gen 3(8Gb/s) x 4 bandwidth with the host while managing multiple NAND flash memory devices on 8 channels. The controller basically is a rebranded Silicon Motion SM2262