The Zhitai PC005 Active is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched in September 2021. It is only available in the 1 TB capacity listed on this page. With the rest of the system, the Zhitai PC005 Active interfaces using a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the SM2262ENG from Silicon Motion, a DRAM cache chip is available. Zhitai has installed 64-layer TLC NAND flash on the PC005 Active, the flash chips are made by YMTC. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are processed more quickly. The cache is sized at 11 GB, once it is full, writes complete at 750 MB/s. The PC005 Active is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 3,500 MB/s and 2,900 MB/s write; random IOPS reach up to 340K for reads and 360K for writes.
The SSD's price at launch is unknown. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Zhitai guarantees an endurance rating of 640 TBW, a typical value for consumer SSDs.