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Intenso Premium 500GB

The Intenso Premium 500GB is an M.2 NVMe solid-state drive with a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface, designed for high-speed storage in compatible systems.

The Intenso Premium 500GB is an M.2 2280 NVMe SSD utilizing a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface. It offers a capacity of 500GB with TLC NAND flash memory and a Silicon Motion SM2263XT controller. The drive is bufferless with no dedicated DRAM cache, but it employs Host Memory Buffer (HMB) technology that uses 64MB of system memory and a pSLC cache of 130GB to boost performance. Sequential read speeds reach 2100 MB/s and sequential write speeds 1700 MB/s, with random read and write IOPS of 105,436 and 160,485 respectively. The drive has a rated endurance of 300 TBW and comes with a 2-year warranty.

Specifications

Form factor unverified M.2 2280
Interface unverified PCIe 3.0 x4
Protocol unverified NVMe
Capacity unverified 500 GB
NAND type unverified TLC
Controller unverified Silicon Motion SM2263XT
DRAM cache unverified No
Sequential read unverified 2100 MB/s
Sequential write unverified 1700 MB/s
Random read unverified 105436 IOPS
Random write unverified 160485 IOPS
Total bytes written unverified 300 TB
Warranty unverified 2 years
Notes unverified pSLC cache 130 GB; HMB enabled (64 MB); bufferless