Being a 512GB model we find that the green PCB is double sided with sixteen NAND modules in total (8 on each side of the PCB).


To the business end of the SSD we find a further eight Micron NAND flash modules along with the controller and accompanying DRAM.


Each NAND flash modules is based upon the new 16nm technology (previously 20nm) by Micron and provides 32GB per module to the overall capacity.


The Marvel controller with the product code of 88SS9189-BLD2 has been flashed with Crucial firmware. Following on from the Micron NAND modules, we find that Micron have also provided the Micron LPDDR2 DRAM which provide 512Mb of cache.

Overall, we find that the MX100 is strikingly similar is most respects to the M550 which is no bad thing. The drive is compliant with TGC Opal 2.0/IEEE 1667 encryption standards along with 256bit AES encryption. RAIN (Redundant Array of Independent NAND) is also featured which in essence works to restore data parity tables should the drive be powered down unexpectedly preventing data loss.