Product Showcase

So once we put the unit on its back you'll see the many mSATA SSDS have been combined to form one big unit. We received a half profile version of the card, these typically end up in servers. There is a consumer model as well in full height, and that one has a shielded cover as well. The tech however is 99% the same DNA. Let me zoom into an mSATA unit.
 

There are eight mSATA 256GB = 2048GB units rated 512 MB/sec each on this product. Here we can see the PCB a little better and see the controller. 
 

Each of the eight mSATA units have four Toshiba TH58TEG9CDJBAS9 NAND chips, that looks to be 512Gbit Nand Flash Toggle MLC.
 

The Toshiba NAND chips are then tied towards the Silicon Motion controller. SM2246 supports high-speed synchronous mode NAND, including Toggle 2.0 and ONFi 3.0, and the latest generation NAND flash. In addition, SM2246 incorporates the latest security protocols and is AES 128/256 and Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Opal full-drive encryption compliant.
 

Each mSATA SSD is making use of a DRAM cache of 256MB, the ICs are a little washed out, I think I notice Nanya DRAM on there, but don't hold that info against me. 

Once we remove the fan and a LOT if thermal insulation material we can see the RAID controller, this is an LSI (AVAGO) controller, the SAS 3008 is a high-performance I/O controller. The LSI SAS 3008 controller supports 8 lanes of PCIe 3.0 and provides SATA/SAS links at rates between 3 and 12Gb/s and supports RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10 in the IR version. 

• Capitalize on the wide bandwidth of eight PCI Express 3.0 lanes with SAS transfer rates of up to 12Gb/s and SATA rates up to 6Gb/s
• Extend existing end-user investments with DataBolt technology, which provides the benefits of 12Gb/s SAS with existing 6Gb/s drive devices.
• Increase value with integrated support for RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, and 10 while providing support for additional MegaRAID options
• Deliver more than million IOPS and 6,000 MB/s throughput performance

This 2TB SSD unit it is factory setup for you. If you run Windows 8.1 or Windows 10, pop it into a PCI-Express 4x or larger slot, set your boot device in the BIOS and boot into Windows. We tested on Windows 10 and the AVAGO LSI RAID controller installs automatically without the need to use any driver installation. As such this is a plug and play setup. Our unit was already partitioned and formatted thus ready for action.