Product showcase

This 6Gbps storage unit makes use of Intel 19nm MLC Toggle NAND from Toshiba, this is simlar towards other Plextor M5 series products. This mSATA version uses four 64GB (8x 8GB die) NAND ICs. MLC NAND packagesThe NAND FLASH partition are assigned directly to the controller. 

You will also spot a Nanya RAM IC, bringing a whopping 512MB of cache memory towards to controller for fast file write operations. The Nanya 512MB DDR3 DRAM chip operates at 1333MHz

Then we flip the PCB around on the right the Marvell Monet 88SS9187-BLD2 8-channel dual core controller can be seen. The labeling has been a little washed out unfortunately. This is an eight-channel controller with the ability of a possible 200MB/s per channel throughput, which is just a crazy high value. That is good news for the lower 128GB SKU performance wise. Combined the bandwidth is just exceptional for single non RAID drive. The controller support TRIM. 

As stated the MLC Toggle NAND used is 19nm in architecture, Toshiba Toggle NAND has SKU code TH58TEG900JBA89. 

We'll be testing this mSATA unit on a SATA3 port with the help of a simple converter.