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Teamgroup Cardea Liquid 256 GB

256 GB
Capacity
Phison E12
Controller
TLC
Flash
PCIe 3.0 x4
Interface
M.2 2280
Form Factor
Front
SSD Controller
Controller
NAND Die
NAND Die
The Teamgroup Cardea Liquid is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched on July 24th, 2019. It is available in capacities ranging from 256 GB to 1 TB. This page reports specifications for the 256 GB variant. With the rest of the system, the Teamgroup Cardea Liquid interfaces using a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the PS5012-E12-27 from Phison. Teamgroup has installed 64-layer TLC NAND flash on the Cardea Liquid, the flash chips are made by Toshiba. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are processed more quickly, once it is full, writes complete at 600 MB/s. The Cardea Liquid is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 3,400 MB/s and 1,000 MB/s write; random IOPS reach up to 200K for reads and 200K 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 380 TBW, a good value.

Solid-State-Drive

Capacity: 256 GB
Variants: 256 GB 512 GB 1 TB
Overprovisioning: 17.6 GB / 7.4 %
Production: Active
Released: Jul 24th, 2019
Part Number: TM8FP5256G0C119
Market: Consumer

Physical

Form Factor: M.2 2280 (Double-Sided)
Interface: PCIe 3.0 x4
Protocol: NVMe 1.3
Power Draw: Unknown

Controller

Manufacturer: Phison
Name: PS5012-E12-27
Architecture: ARM 32-bit Cortex-R5
Core Count: Quad-Core
Frequency: 667 MHz
Foundry: TSMC
Process: 28 nm
Flash Channels: 8 @ 667 MT/s
Chip Enables: 4
Controller Features: DRAM

NAND Flash

Manufacturer: Toshiba
Name: BiCS3
Type: TLC
Technology: 64-layer
Speed: 533 MT/s
Capacity: 2 chips @ 1 Tbit
ONFI: 3.2
Toggle: 2.0
Topology: Charge Trap
Process: 19 nm
Dies per Chip: 4 dies @ 256 Gbit
Planes per Die: 2
Decks per Die: 2
Read Time (tR): 80 µs
Program Time (tProg): 695 µs
Die Read Speed: 400 MB/s
Die Write Speed: 46 MB/s
Endurance:
(up to)		 3000 P/E Cycles
(30000 in SLC Mode)
Page Size: 16 KB
Block Size: 768 Pages
Plane Size: 1478 Blocks

DRAM Cache

Type: Unknown
Capacity: 256 MB
(1x 256 MB)

Performance

Sequential Read: 3,400 MB/s
Sequential Write: 1,000 MB/s
Random Read: 200,000 IOPS
Random Write: 200,000 IOPS
Endurance: 380 TBW
Warranty: 5 Years
MTBF: 2.0 Million Hours
Drive Writes Per Day (DWPD): 0.8
SLC Write Cache: Yes
Speed when Cache Exhausted: approx. 600 MB/s

Features

TRIM: Yes
SMART: Yes
Power Loss Protection: No
Encryption:
  • No
RGB Lighting: No
PS5 Compatible: No

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Notes

Controller:

2 main cores using Cortex-R5 clocked at 667 MHz with CoXProcessor technology (one additional dual-core) Cortex-R5 clocked at a lower clock for better efficience.

NAND Die:

Read latency:
tR: 64µs (SBL)
tR: 80µs (ABL)
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