TeamGroup MP32 M2 NVMe 480GB SSD Review - Product showcase

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/12/2018 07:35 AM [

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Before we can have a peek, we need to peel off the thermal sticker. We'll test with it applied though. The compact M.2 2280 (2280 = 80 mm) form factor ensures compatibility with next-generation desktop and mobile platforms that support the M.2 PCIe slot and interface. The front-facing side holds the controller, four NAND chips.

The chip read out as a Phison Series 5008-E8 NVMe controller. While NVMe is great at 3 GB/sec on an x4 PCIe interface, not everybody needs it? Phison addressed that with the E8 series controllers. Pretty much the E8 series is a lower cost version of the current high-performance E7 series. Phison released two models, the PS5008-E8 with DRAM and a DRAM-less PS5008-E8T model. These are 4-channel controllers. Both E8 controllers make use of the PCI Express 3.0 x2 (and not x4) interface and support both your regular and vertically stacked NAND flash. The controller supports the latest SLC/MLC/TLC/QLC as well as the latest 3D (vertically stacked) NAND (64-layer BiCs). The SMT trace for DRAM shows this is a DRAMless version ergo the NAND writes need to cache from an SLC buffer.

We have seen this NAND IC before. That would be a single package of 64GB (x4). TA, it is a Toshiba 15nm NAND flash memory, this time written at 3 bits per cell (TLC). You'll find four flash NAND packages.

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