BIWIN Storage Technology has recently sent us another interesting product, with good efficiency, transfer rates but also impressive temperatures while transferring large quantities of data! The Predator Storage GM7 PCIe 4.0 2280 M.2 SSD does come with rated reads of about 7400 MB/s, writes of about 6500 MB/s, while the single-sided design allows installation on many systems that have additional components under the M.2 slot mounting space (such as data cables).

The product is shipped inside a small cardboard enclosure sporting the Predator branding and in the frontal area we will note the capacity of the drive, but also an authenticity sticker:

On the back, the manufacturer has included the full product specifications, the supported standards, along with the product code name and serial number:

Inside the box we will note the drive sitting secure inside a transparent plastic mold, along with some documentation:

The fixing screw is handy when the motherboard we are installing the product on is not supplied with such a component:

The installation procedure is offered inside the small manual, along with the full specifications, depending on the capacity:

The top area of the drive does come with a large but thin heatspreader, helping to normalize the temperature throughout the entire surface; a nice Predator logo is placed in the middle:

As advertised, on the bottom there are no extra components, but only an extra sticker with the product serial number, code name and the power rating:

After removing the heatspreader, we will note a main controller, but also four NAND ICs:

The controller is a Maxio MAP1602A, manufactured on TSMC’s 12nm, quad-core with 4 flash channels, has an ARM 32-bit Cortex-R5 architecture and employs Host Memory Buffer:

BWN0ATF1B1JCAD is the code name for the NAND and basically we are dealing with YMTC 232-layer 3D TLC: