The Silicon Motion SM2508 Engineering Sample is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched on August 8th, 2024. It is only available in the 2 TB capacity listed on this page. With the rest of the system, the Silicon Motion SM2508 Engineering Sample interfaces using a PCI-Express 5.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the SM2508 from Silicon Motion, a DRAM cache chip is available. Silicon Motion has installed 232-layer TLC NAND flash on the SM2508 Engineering Sample, the flash chips are made by Micron. 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 5.0 interface, performance is excellent. The SM2508 Engineering Sample is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 14,500 MB/s and 14,000 MB/s write; random IOPS reach up to 2500K for reads and 2500K for writes.
The SSD's price at launch is unknown. The TBW rating for the Silicon Motion SM2508 Engineering Sample 2 TB is unknown, too.