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 Kioxia Exceria Plus G2 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

Kioxia has licensed the Phison E12S controller and rebranded it. It's an eight-channel design with support for TLC and NVMe 1.3c.


The eight flash chips are 96-layer 3D TLC NAND made by Kioxia/Toshiba.


Two Hynix DDR4-2666 chips provide a total of 2 GB of fast DRAM storage for the controller to store the mapping tables.