Today, we have for review the Toshiba OCZ RC100 in its 480 GB variant. A few years back, the company was acquired by Toshiba, which gave OCZ the ability to be a first-class customer to Toshiba's flash chips and other NAND-related technology. In the meantime, OCZ has been fully integrated into Toshiba as their more consumer-oriented brand, while the parent company focuses on the business and enterprise sectors.

The RC100 is one of the first highly cost-optimized NVMe M.2 SSDs. It is built using just a single chip, which is made by Toshiba, and integrates the SSD controller and NAND flash into a single package. Due to the cost-optimized design, an external DRAM chip is not required—the RC100 is DRAM-less (more on that on the following pages).