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The Solidigm P41 Plus comes in a small but sturdy box with a close-up image of the drive on the front. To the left of the image is a sticker carrying the drive's size and its Sequential read speed rating (up to 4,100MB/s). On both the front and back of the box is a description of the format and architecture of the drive. Also on the back of the box is a statement that the drive has a 5-year warranty. Towards the bottom edge of the box, there is a small diagram showing the drive's length.
Solidigm's 2TB P41 Plus is built on a single-sided M.2 2280 format.
Under the product label on the front of the drive sits a 4-channel Silicon Motion SM2269XT controller which looks after a pair of 1TB packages of Solidigm 144-layer 3D QLC NAND. As the P41 Plus is a DRAM-less drive these are the only major components on the PCB. The SM2269XT is a compact (7.7 x 11mm package) DRAM-less design built on a 12nm process using a dual-core ARM R8 processor with 4 NAND channels running at 1,600 MT/s per channel. It supports 3D TLC and QLC NAND. The controller supports AES128/256 encryption and is TCG OPAL 2.0 compliant and uses the 7th generation of Silicon Motion's NANDXtend ECC technology.
Solidigm's software utility goes by the name of the Solidigm Storage Tool. It doesn't have the flashy GUI of some of its competitors, but most of what you need to keep a drive in shape is there including; drive information, drive health, diagnostic scans, firmware updates and secure erase. It has two sections Management and Details.
Management
Details
