Package

The Drive

Three sides of the SE900G are made out of metal. The front is made out of transparent plastic, which lets the RGB lighting shine through.


A single USB-C port lets you connect to the drive. A blue activity indicator is located right next to the USB-C port.


The RGB implementation on the SE900G looks really nice.

Disassembly

Under the top lid, we find eight RGB LEDs for the lighting effects. Part of the magic is the top lid, which is transparent; it has the diagonal line pattern you see in the RGB shots above.


On one side of the PCB, we find a classic M.2 NVMe slot, which has an ADATA SX8200 Pro sitting in it. The other side handles the RGB lighting.


Two thick metal plates act as heatsinks for the USB-to-PCIe bridge and SSD controller. These plates are connected to the metal case of the SE900G, so heat can be dissipated easily.


On the SSD, we find four NAND chips, the USB-to-PCIe bridge chip, two DRAM cache chips, and the SSD controller.


The flash chips have been rebranded. They are Micron 96-layer B27A 3D TLC flash.


The Silicon Motion SM2262ENG is a highly popular, 8-channel flash controller we've seen on other high-performance SSDs.


ASM2364 is ASMedia's second-generation PCI-Express to USB3.2 device controller. It features PCI Express Gen3 x4 and one USB3.2 Gen2x2 device port for high bandwidth of up to 20 Gbps between the PCI Express Gen3 x4 and USB 3.2 SuperSpeedPlus bus.


Two Samsung DRAM chips provide a total of 1 GB of fast DRAM storage for the controller to store the mapping tables.