THE UV500 480GB M.2

The M.2 version of the UV500 series follows the typical 2280 form factor (22mm wide and 80mm long).

There are four NAND flash memory modules at the top of the drive (each 128GB in capacity) but unfortunately unlike the MX500 model which we reviewed a while back the UV500 doesn't feature a copper sticker to help with heat dissipation.

At the top we also find a single 512MB LPDDR3 cache module and of course the Marvell 88SS1074 NAND flash controller (as expected the rear of the our sample's PCB is empty - there should be 4 extra NAND flash modules and 1 extra 512MB LPDDR3 cache module in the 960TB version).