Packaging and Contents

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 MP34 uses a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 interface.


You will find the SSD controller, one DRAM chip, and two flash chips on the PCB. The other side of the PCB is empty.


The 8-channel flash controller is made by Phison and their latest model with support for 3D TLC, QLC, and PCI-Express 3.0 x4. It uses eight flash channels and is produced on a 28 nm process at TSMC Taiwan.


The two TLC flash chips are made by Toshiba, built using 64-layers on a 15 nanometer 3D NAND production process.


A single Nanya DDR3-1866 chip provides 256 MB of fast DRAM storage for the controller to store the mapping tables in.