Packaging

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 Team Group T-Create Expert connects to the host system over a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 interface.


On the PCB, you'll find the controller and four flash chips; two DRAM cache chips are installed, too.

Chip Component Analysis

The Silicon Motion SM2262ENG is an eight-channel flash controller with support for NVMe 1.3, TLC, and DDR3/DDR4 memory.


The four flash chips are Micron 64-layer 3D TLC NAND; they have been rebranded by Team Group. Each chip has a capacity of 512 GB. I've verified these chips to be FortisMax, which has 10,000 P/E cycles.


Two Micron DDR3-1600 chips provide 2 GB of fast DRAM storage for the controller to store the mapping tables in.