The P34A80 M.2 2280 SSD is a mainstream offering from Silicon Power, which aims on offering quite a bit of performance, while keeping the costs low. While the P32A80 model we have tested before did include a DRAM-less design with a Marvell controller which supported 4 NAND channels, now we are dealing with a Phison E12 controller with 8 channels. The product is shipped inside a tiny cardboard enclosure with a plastic window, allowing the potential customer to take a look at the drive without the need of unsealing the packaging:
Some more details on the product can be found on the back side:
The outside layer did house a transparent plastic mold, in which the SSD is held fixed:
On one side of the drive PCB we can spot its code name, total capacity, model ID but also the serial number:
The back side of the PCB does not have any components:
Removing the slim top sticker is an easy process and by doing this we could expose the separate components of the drive:
The Nanya DRAM IC holds a NT5CC128M16JR-EK code name and translates into DDR3-1866, with a capacity of 256MB:
The 8-channel Phison PS5012-E12-27 controller does support QLC, 3D TLC NAND and PCI-Express 3.0 x4 interfaces:
The TLC 3D NAND flash is manufactured by Toshiba, using 64 layers on a 15nm manufacturing process; this drive comes with a total of 25GB of SLC cache, which provides quite a bit of boost during normal operating conditions:
