Another reason being the 980 PRO is a single-sided SSD with all heat-generating components located on one side of its PCB. It is easier to cool than double-sided SSDs.

Today’s PCB design review is a board is from [Wificable]. iI’s a novel dual-SSD laptop adapter board! See, CPUs and chipsets often let you split wide PCIe links into multiple smaller wi… ...

The SK hynix 2TB Gold P31 SSD is capable of providing sequential read speeds of up to 3,500 mb/s and sequential write speeds of up to 3,200 MB/s and features SK hynix TLC NAND memory and PCI E ...

Intel places a NAND flash partition of 20 ICs onto one PCB. The 300GB partition of NAND FLASH ICs will get tied to the 10 channel Intel controller based IC, assigned for multi-channel IO.