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Netac's NV7000-t comes in a compact box with a good clear image of the drive on the front. To the right of the image is a sticker displaying the drive's capacity. 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.
Netac's NV7000-t 2TB drive is built on a single-sided M.2 2280 format. Netac provides an optional heat shield label containing a thin metal layer with the drive which is a must-have if you are thinking about using the drive without any form of motherboard M.2 cooling.
The drive uses a Maxiotech MAP1602A 4-channel controller, which we hardly ever see, but having said that, it does power the last two Lexar drives we looked at, the NM790 standard and Heatsink versions. For the 2TB NV7000-t Netac has used the controller in combination with four 512GB packages of YMTC 232-Layer 3D TLC NAND.
The 1602A is a DRAM-less design built on a 12nm TSMC process with ARM Cortex-R5 architecture. Unlike many other DRAM-less design's 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 and uses MAXIO Agile ECC 3 Technology for error correction.
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.
