Packaging

The Drive

The drive uses the M.2 2280 form factor, which makes it 22 mm wide and 80 mm long.


Like most M.2 NVMe SSDs, the Addlink X70 connects to the host system over a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 interface.


Addlink includes a preinstalled metal heatsink.


On the PCB, you'll find the controller, four flash chips, and two DRAM chips.


The RGB lighting looks great and can optionally be controlled through motherboard software. ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock have support for the Addlink X70 SSD in their software.


Here's a recording of the default lighting animation that activates as soon as you power on your system.

Chip Component Analysis

The flash controller is made by Phison and their latest model with support for 3D TLC, QLC, and PCI-Express 3.0 x4. It uses eight flash channels and is produced on a 28 nm process at TSMC Taiwan.


The four TLC flash chips are made by Toshiba, built using 64-layers on a 15 nanometer 3D NAND production process.


Two SKhynix DDR4-2400 chips provide a total of 1 GB of fast DRAM storage for the controller to store the mapping tables.