The NV7000-Q comes packaged in an attractive, shiny, black box. Along with a picture of the drive, the packaging advertises a number of its key features including its 1TB capacity and PCIe Gen 4x4 NVMe interface. Inside, you'll find the SSD as well as a small installation guide and a couple of mounting screws.
Physical Features:
The NV7000-Q uses the 2280 form factor for M.2 (NGFF) SSDs. It measures 22 x 80 x 2.3 mm and weighs in at 8g. The drive also has an "M key" edge connector which provides PCIe SSDs with up to 4x lanes of bandwidth.
The NV7000-Q is powered by Maxio Technology's MAP1602 controller chip. This DRAM-less, PCIe Gen 4x4 NVMe 2.0 controller is equipped with a quad-core ARM Cortex R5 CPU and has 4 NAND channels with four chip enables (CE) per channel. The MAP1602 also offers support for 3D TLC/QLC NAND flash as well as Maxio's Agile ECC error correction technology.
For the 1TB version of the NV7000-Q, Netac opted to use YMTC's 232-layer 3D QLC NAND flash. If you'd remove the label, you'd see two 512GB NAND flash packages on the top of the PCB. There is also no DRAM cache chip as the NV7000-Q's controller takes full advantage of NVMe's Host Memory Buffer feature by using a small portion of the computer's memory to cache the mapping tables.
