INTRODUCTION

   With Christmas less than a month away many people have begun contemplating how to spend their money and at least the ones who reach out to me are either planning on getting a complete PC or gathering parts to build their very own. In regards to those who plan on getting a complete system unfortunately there's not much i can say, simply put i can't recommend any system builder that i have zero experience with. As for those who plan on getting parts to build their very own system, one of the questions I’ve heard more than once recently is whether or not there are budget-friendly PCIe 4.0 Gen4 SSDs in the market and even though i do have some in my charts i did look around for more and so today with me i have the latest NFP445 1TB model by Neo Forza.

   We are a professional team, studying in computer memory and storage devices industry for more than 10 years. In order to meet the rising demand on speed and capacity of the high-end gaming market players, we created Neo Forza, a new generation of ultra-standard overclocking module, SSD and other related storage device designing brand. Neo represents from virtual to reality, showing our core value for product innovation. Forza shows our strength and determination to meet gamers every need. Neo Forza possess strong resources, focus on core technology. From research & design, specific production to exceed the testing benchmark; Neo Forza keep pushing over technical boundary, providing top-notch performance and quality, providing gamers / game players extraordinary using experience.

   The NFP445 M.2 PCIe 4.0 Gen4 SSD by Neo Forza is currently available in just 500GB/1TB capacities and it's actually also quite unique since it uses a low-power NVMe v1.4 NAND controller I’ve never seen to date, not up close anyways. So, this model uses the 4-channel TC2200 PCIe Gen4 NVMe DRAMless NAND flash controller by Tenafe which Neo Forza has paired with 128-layer 3D TLC NAND flash (4 modules for the 1TB that i have here with me) to achieve performance numbers of up to 4700-4500MB/s in reads and writes respectively. The TC2200 NAND flash controller packs various technologies including the Host Memory Buffer (HMB) architecture (basically takes up a fraction of your PC's system memory to cache mapping tables - only supported on versions of Windows 10/11 launched from 2019 and beyond), end-to-end data protection, FlexLDPC (4KB LDPC, low-density parity check) error-correction, SRAM SECDED protection, programmable RAID, SLC cache, TRIM, NCQ, AES 256-bit encryption supports TCG opal. Neo forza finally reports an TBW of 350 for the 500GB model and 640 for the 1TB model and covers both of them with a 5-year limited warranty.