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 1 TB 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, a DRAM cache chip is available. Teamgroup has installed 96-layer TLC NAND flash on the Cardea Liquid, the flash chips are made by Micron. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are soaked up more quickly. The Cardea Liquid is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 3,400 MB/s and 3,000 MB/s write; random IOPS reach up to 450K for reads and 400K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 170 USD. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Teamgroup guarantees an endurance rating of 1665 TBW, a good value.