The Teamgroup Cardea II is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched on June 20th, 2019. It is available in capacities ranging from 256 GB to 1 TB. This page reports specifications for the 512 GB variant. With the rest of the system, the Teamgroup Cardea II interfaces using a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the PS5012-E12-27 from Phison, a DRAM cache chip is available. Teamgroup has installed 64-layer TLC NAND flash on the Cardea II, the flash chips are made by Toshiba. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are soaked up more quickly. The Cardea II is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 3,400 MB/s and 2,000 MB/s write; random IOPS reach up to 350K for reads and 300K for writes.
The SSD's price at launch is unknown. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Teamgroup guarantees an endurance rating of 800 TBW, a good value.