Netac NV7000-Q 1TB SSD Review

Netac's NV7000-Q comes in a compact box with a good clear image of the drive on the front. A sticker displaying the drive's capacity is to the right of the image. The rear of the drive is mostly covered by multi-lingual notes about the drive interface and what version of NVMe (1.4) it supports.

The NV7000-Q 1TB drive is built on a single-sided M.2 2280 format. The drive has no heatsink, but Netac does provide a heat shield in the shape of a thin metal layer built into the product label.

The drive uses a Maxiotech MAP1602A 4-channel controller, a controller we don't often see. For the 1TB NV7000-Q Netac has used the controller in combination with two 512GB packages of YMTC 232-Layer 3D QLC NAND. The 1602A is a DRAM-less design built on a 12nm TSMC process in a 7.1 x 11mm package with ARM Cortex-R5 architecture. Unlike many other DRAM-less designs, the 1602A uses a 2400 MT/s interface speed for better performance.

The controller supports up to 4TB of TLC 3D MLC/TLC/QLC NAND with Sequential speeds of up to  7,200MB/s and 6,500MB/s for reads and writes respectively. 4K random performance is quoted as up to 1M IOPS for read and writes. Error correction is provided by MAXIO Agile ECC 3 Technology.

Netac's SSD management utility is the SSD ToolBox. Very easy to use and understand it supports most of what you need to do to keep an SSD happy. It also includes a very useful Data Migration tool.

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