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 Kingston A2000 connects to the host system over a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 interface.


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

Chip Component Analysis

The Silicon Motion SM2263 is a four-channel flash controller with support for NVMe 1.3, TLC, and DDR3/DDR4 memory.


The four flash chips are Micron 96-layer 3D TLC NAND. NW952 decodes to MT29F2T08EMHBFJ4-R:B. Each chip has a capacity of 256 GB.


A Kingston DDR3L-1866 chip provides 1 GB of fast DRAM storage for the controller to store the mapping tables.