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 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 four flash chips. A DRAM cache is not available.


Neo Forza's sticker comes with a copper core, which helps to soak up heat and distribute it over a larger surface area.

Chip Component Analysis

This is TenaFE's first controller that made it into a mass market SSD. The TenaFE TC2201 is a four channel design with support for NVMe 1.4 running at up to 2400 MT/s. The controller is engineered to work without DRAM and has support for both TLC and QLC NAND flash.


The four flash chips are YMTC 232-layer 3D TLC NAND. Each chip has a capacity of 1 TB.