ANACOMDA brand is owned by MINPO Corporation, a global leader itself in SSD technology, being mainly specialized in development and production of both storage and memory. We have been recently contacted by the company in order to take a look at their products and one of these is the M.2 2280 i4-X PCIe 4.0 SSD with 4TB capacity. This model is packing an integrated heatspreader, with rated speeds of 7000MB/s regarding both reads and writes.

The drive is shipped inside a small cardboard enclosure, with a blue/black color scheme; in the frontal area, ANACOMDA has included a list of product highlights, but also a photo of the main product:

On the back, we will learn that the i4-X is available with capacities of 1TB, 2TB, 4TB and 8TB, but we will also note the company address, along with the serial number:

After removing the top packaging layer, we will observe that the drive sits secure inside a transparent plastic mold:

The i4-X does come with a thicker heatsink when compared to other drives we have tested in the past, similar to the ones used on DRAM. The subtle ANACOMDA logo can be spotted in the middle, on a black background:

The thermal pad is strongly glued to the components, hence we needed to find another solution for checking out “under the hood”. By running a dedicated Phison identification utility, we learned that the drive is equipped with a PS5018-E18 controller, the caching is done on a 1GB DDR4 2666MHz IC, while the NAND is Toshiba 112L BiCS5 TLC:

On the back, we will note a large sticker with the drive power rating, the capacity but also some serial numbers: