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The drive comes in a compact box with a clear image of the drive on the front. Under the image is the drive capacity. The rear of the box has a small window in the middle of it, which shows the product label on the rear of the drive. To the left of this window is a limited specification list for the drive while on the other side of the window is a QR code that gives you access to the Quick Start Guide, warranty and additional product information.
Like the 4TB X570 PRO, the 2TB model is built on a single-sided PCB (components on one side of the PCB). Sitting under the graphene thermal pad, which the front product label is fixed to, is the Silicon Motion’s SM2508 controller, two packages of 232-layer TLC NAND and a 2GB DRAM IC (the size of the DRAM is based on drive capacity at the ratio of 1GB per 1TB),
Silicon Motion’s SM2508 controller is a new one to us. The 8-channel controller has been designed to offer both high performance and power efficiency. Built on a 6nm process, the SM2508 uses a quad-core ARM Cortex R8 CPU that supports four 32Gb/s PCIe lanes. The NAND channels have a bus rate of up to 3,600 MT/s each which provides up to 14.5 GB/s and 14 GB/s sequential (read and write, respectively) performance and up to 2.5M/2.5M IOPS random read/write performance. Using a 6nm process together with a proprietary built-in smart clock-gating mechanism, which intelligently and automatically powers down unused blocks allows the SM2508 to be very efficient when it comes to power consumption (Silicon Motion claim 30% active power reduction over the previous generation IC).
Biwin makes it even easier to install the drive as they have provided a M.2 fixing screw (take care not the lose it when you open the plastic shell that protects the drive) and a handy little screwdriver are bundled with the drive
