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At this stage we have removed the heatsink uncovering the Phison controller, a DRAM cache chip and another four NAND ICs. Overall a very clean PCB, aside from controller, cache and NAND there aren't any additional ICs.
 

The controller has eight channels (Phison PS5007-E7) and theoretically can support up to 350,000 4KB random read IOPS (input/output operations per second) and up to 250,000 random write IOPS. We'll look into IOPS performance in our benchmark run of course. The Sonix from ZOTAC will come in half-length half-height PCI Express 3.0 x4 card form-factor and as mentioned a bit too often by now, supports the NVMe protocol. ZOTAC did not share much details in their documentation. However being Phison PS5007-E7 based NVMe is locked in at 1.2 and thus would support error correction with 120-bit/2KB BCH code, end-to-end data path protection, diverse wear-leveling, an AES-256 engine and more. NVMe is maximized and running over your PCIe 3.0 4-lane controller, little is known about it. 

The 480 GB model comes with 512 MB DDR3 DRAM buffer cache from Nanya. 
 

The units use a Phison’s PS5007-E7 controller is tied to multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory fabbed by Toshiba.