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Phison E13
The Phison E13 or PS5013 is a PCIe 3.0 NVMe controller first introduced in late 2019, and remaining in current production today. Common in budget NVMe drives, it can be found in drives sold under a wide variety of brand and model names.
The controller used can sometimes vary even between drives with the same model designation, as vendors can change controllers throughout a drive model's production; as such, external branding or model designation alone cannot definitively identify a drive as having an E13 controller. Nonetheless, a non-exhaustive list of drive models known to use the Phison E13 is included below.
| Vendor | Model |
|---|---|
| Addlink | S68 |
| Apacer | AS2280P4 |
| ASUS | TUF Gaming AS1000 |
| Crucial | P2 |
| DEXP | L3 PCIe |
| Digma | Mega P3 |
| Foxline | X5 |
| Foxline | X5SE |
| Gigabyte | GP-GSM2NE3 |
| Greenliant | ArmourDrive |
| Inland | Professional |
| Kingston | NV1 |
| MSI | M370 |
| MSI | M371 |
| MyDigitalSSD | SBXe |
| Patriot | P300 |
| Patriot | PXD |
| PNY | CS1030 |
| Goodram | PX500 |
| Sabrent | Rocket Nano Rugged |
| Sabrent | Rocket NVMe 2242 |
| Seagate | BarraCuda Q5 |
| Smartbuy | Stream E13T |
| Smartbuy | Stream E13T Pro |
| Team Group | Cardea Zero Z330 |
| Team Group | MP33 |
| Team Group | MP33 Pro |
| Team Group | T-Create Classic PCIe |
DiskSec performs the following checks for Phison E13 drives:
This check executes the VUC operation system info, which returns general information about the drive such as the firmware version and physical flash geometry.
This check attempts the VUC operation read info block, which reads a set of persistent configuration data from the drive, containing details such as the model name and serial number.
This check attempts to read memory directly from controller RAM. It does this by reading from memory address 0, a fixed address where an ARM exception vector should always be located. It then parses the returned data, confirms it is a valid ARM exception vector, and outputs success if so.