While Biostar isn't a big player in the SSD market, they do tend to release incremental updates to their portfolio of storage solutions on occasion. Their latest update includes both the SATA-powered S120 series that we will have in a future review and the NVMe M700, which we are looking at here today.

The M700 is targeting the value segment of the market quite aggressively by putting together a DRAM-less design with Silicon Motion's SM2263XT controller and Intel's 64-layer 3D NAND. Capacity options include a 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB model with features that include support for the NVMe 1.3 specification, as well as Host Memory Buffer (HMB) and AES 256-bit encryption.