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.


As heat spreader Team Group is using the sticker. It is somewhat metallic with a gray substance at the back, which according to Team Group is Graphene, but it could also be graphite based on the looks. The sticker is somewhat stiff, but not as stiff as heatspreaders with a copper core. Please also note that the heat spreader is rather thin.

Chip Component Analysis

MaxioTech's MAP1602A controller is produced on TSMC's 12 nanometer node and uses several Arm Cortex R5 CPU cores.


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