THE SCORPION 480GB

With a length of 167.5mm, width of 12mm and height of 69mm the Scorpion is one of the smallest PCI-E drives we've seen to date.

As mentioned earlier the Scorpion 480GB consists out of two M.2 240GB SATA III drives.

These drives feature the rather old yet tested SandForce SF-2281 and 8 Micron 19nm MLC NAND flash modules each (32GB in size).

The Marvell 88SE9230 host controller is placed beneath a small black heatsink (supports on-the-fly AES 128/256-bit encryption, NCQ, AHCI interface and RAID 0/1/10).

With support for x2 slots this means that you can't plug the Scorpion into an X1 slot (and even if you could you shouldn't).

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Aside a large sticker with the product name, serial name, capacity, barcode and type of PCIe the rear of the PCB is pretty much empty.

The Marvell host controller has its own bios which you can access at boot (ctrl+m). From the factory the Scorpion drive is configured in RAID0 but you can change it to RAID1 if you want (RAID10 is available however with models that have at least 4 M.2 drives on them).