Packaging

The Drive

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


PCI-Express 5.0 x4 is used as the host interface to the rest of the system, which doubles the theoretical bandwidth compared to PCIe 4.0 x4.


On the PCB you'll find the controller and four flash chips, a DRAM cache chip is included, too.


Klevv's cooling solution combines a slab of aluminium (left side), with a heatsink design, which is made from aluminium, too.


Four screws on the sides ensure the cooler stays attached well, with optimum cooling performance, even when used for longer durations.


Two thermal pads are preinstalled, one on top of the SSD, the other on the bottom, to ensure optimal heat transfer.

Chip Component Analysis

The Phison PS5026-E26 is Phison's first PCI-Express 5.0 controller. It is the company's current flagship with support for eight flash channels and NVMe 2.0, using an Arm Cortex design. The controller itself is fabricated using a 12 nanometer process at TSMC Taiwan.


The four flash chips are Micron 232-layer 3D TLC NAND. Each chip has a capacity of 512 GB.


A Hynix DDR4-4266 chip provides 4 GB of fast DRAM storage for the controller to store the mapping tables.