Packaging

The Drive

The drive is designed for the highly compact M.2 2230 form factor, which makes it 22 mm wide and only 30 mm long.


PCI-Express 4.0 x4 is used as the host interface to the rest of the system, which doubles the theoretical bandwidth compared to PCIe 3.0 x4.


On the PCB you'll find the SSD controller and one flash chip. A DRAM cache is not available.

Chip Component Analysis

The Phison PS5027-E27T is Phison's new PCI-Express 4.0 controller optimized for DRAM-less operation, with support for TLC and QLC NAND. It's a four-channel design with support for NVMe 2.0. The controller itself is fabricated using a 12 nanometer process at TSMC Taiwan.


The flash chip is Toshiba 162-layer 3D TLC NAND, it has a capacity of 2 TB.