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 512 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, a DRAM cache chip is available. 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 handled more quickly. The cache is sized at 18 GB, 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 2,000 MB/s write; random IO reaches 350K IOPS for read and 300K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 103 USD. 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.