Specifications & Features
Specifications and features
The sample that has arrived for testing is a 256GB version of the drive. The series as stated will be fitted with TLC (Triple-level cell written) written NAND flash memory from Toshiba. This allows them to offer the big storage volume at a lower price point. In 3D NAND, NAND layers, not chips, are stacked in a single IC. The good news is continued cost reduction, smaller die sizes and more capacity per NAND chip. Also, installed NAND toolsets in the wafer fabs can, for the most part, be reused, thereby extending the useful life of the fab equipment.
The NAND ICs are driven by a Phison 5008-E8 controller, a small partition that will be SLC written to keep write performance up-to-snuff. Much like other competitors, this M2 SSD will run on a slower PCIe x2 link. The MP32 series is to be a cheaper, more budget offering of their NVMe SSDs. SSD solutions like these still will get your performance ranges of up to 1500 MB/s and writing speeds of up to 950 MB/s, though the numbers vary per model due to available NAND channels to the controller (big SSDs have more chips to work with). In the end, these more value propositions offer double and even triple the speed (depending on how you look at it) of the fastest SATA3 SSD.
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| MP32 | 1280GB | 256GB | 512 | 1024GB |
| Sequential reads | 1350 MB/s | 1500 MB/s | 1500 MB/s | 1550 MB/s |
| Sequential writes | 400 MB/s | 800 MB/s | 850 MB/s | 950 MB/s |
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Teamgroup will offer the MP32 series fitted with vertical stacked (3D) NAND from Toshiba, written as TLC and these units receive a 3-year warranty.
