The M.2 2280 SSD we are going to review in this article is coming from Neo Forza brand by Goldkey Technology Corporation, based in Taiwan since 1998. Until quite recently it has been working as an OEM brand for other companies, as an IC design house. The company has been streamlining its wafer design process and has designed ICs suitable to be used at different timings but also lots of frequency choices. The chips are carefully selected and binned from the factory, so all meet the same criteria on a single RAM stick.

The drive comes in a compact cardboard packaging with a small window, so the potential customer can have a clear view on what they are purchasing. Here we will note pictograms of supported technologies such as 3D NAND, SLC caching, LDPC ECC:

On the back side of the small box, we will note of the technical specifications of not one but all members from the same series which does include the 256GB version, the 512GB version, one 1TB version but also the 2TB SKU. The company address together with the product code name / serial number and warranty are also found here:

Inside the box we will find the drive sitting inside a transparent plastic mold:

The NFP07 drive has a sticker attached to the frontal area of the PCB, highlighting the product internal code name, its serial number but also the form factor, supported bus and total storage capacity:

On the back side of the PCB we will note place holders for four additional NAND ICs but also for a RAM cache:

By removing the top sticker, we will note the four available NAND ICs, the main controller but also a RAM cache:

The RAM cache for storing the tables has the D1216ECMDXGJD code name, a capacity of 256MB and was manufactured by Kingston:

The PS5012-E12S controller does support up to 8 channels with 32 chips, has a dual-CPU architecture with built-in 32-bit microcontroller, does have support for the PCIe Gen 3x4 interface and is compliant with the NVMe 1.3 standard. It was built on TSMC 28nm process technology, was made to support both 3D TLC and QLC NAND flash packages and regarding data reliability options we have support for LDPC ECC and RAID ECC, a DDR ECC engine but also End-to-End Data Path Protection:

The NAND packages hold the CABBG64A0A code name and have a 256GB capacity each: