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 KC2500 connects to the host system over a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 interface.


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

Chip Component Analysis

The Silicon Motion SM2262 is an eight-channel flash controller with support for NVMe 1.3, TLC, and DDR3/DDR4 memory.


The eight flash chips are Toshiba 96-layer 3D TLC NAND; they have been rebranded by Kingston. Each chip has a capacity of 128 GB.


Two Kingston DDR3-1866 chips provide a total of 1 GB of fast DRAM storage for the controller to store the mapping tables.