The Redragon Blade is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched in 2022. It is available in capacities ranging from 512 GB to 1 TB. This page reports specifications for the 1 TB variant. With the rest of the system, the Redragon Blade interfaces using a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the MAP1602A Falcon Lite from MaxioTech, a DRAM cache is not available. Redragon has installed 232-layer TLC NAND flash on the Blade, the flash chips are made by YMTC. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are soaked up more quickly. Thanks to support for the fast PCI-Express 4.0 interface, performance is excellent. The Blade is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 7,450 MB/s and 6,600 MB/s write; random IOPS reach up to 860K for reads and 670K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 99 USD. The warranty length is set to one year, which is quite short for the SSD industry. Redragon guarantees an endurance rating of 1800 TBW, a very high value, making this drive a good choice for write-intensive enterprise applications.