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 is pretty much the standard these days, it doubles the theoretical bandwidth compared to PCIe 3.0 x4.


On the PCB you'll find the SSD controller and two flash chips. A DRAM cache is not available.


Team Group includes a thin sticky heat spreader foil with their drive.


We can clearly see a metal core, there's also mentions of Graphene. Our thermal testing will investigate thermal performance thoroughly.


Note how the flexible heat spreader is able to make contact with both the flash chips and the controller, which has a little lower Z-Height.

Chip Component Analysis

The Phison PS5027-E27T is Phison's new PCI-Express 4.0 controller optimized for DRAM-less operation, with support for TLC and QLC NAND. It's a four-channel design with support for NVMe 2.0. The controller itself is fabricated using a 12 nanometer process at TSMC Taiwan.


The two flash chips are Toshiba 162-layer 3D TLC NAND. Each chip has a capacity of 1 TB.