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With the sticker peeled off, here we can see the PCB a little better and yes .. where is that controller?  Well, it's build directly into the NAND package. With these you get the full TRIM support and garbage collection under Windows 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. Again, with this SSD series, please make sure you use Windows 10 with at least the fall edition (2017) updates to support HMB.

The one chip, of course, uses Toshiba's own BICs 64-layer NAND, TLC written Vertical stacked NAND. You will find only one of these at the front-side holding 256GB per NAND chip. And to proof that, above the photo of the backside ... nothing there mate. Indeed and as stated, no DRAM cache chips. 

Toshiba did not disclose anything about the controller, but the only brand we know who can do this is Silicon Motion with their SM2263XT.