Photos and Pictures
Not much to the packaging here:
No box, no padding, I guess that’s part of being a budget drive. Should be fine though, 1500Gs is a lot after all!
Here’s a nice closeup. Like the Agility 3, it’s a nice looking drive. The silver bits are reflective.
The bottom is brushed steel of some sort. It’s magnetic in any case. It looks nice.
Standard SATA connectors here, nothing special.
Last before I rip the cover off, a glamor shot. Red fabric + reflective logo = cool looking picture.
Now I’ll open it up and show you the insides. Don’t open yours, at best it’ll kill your warranty. At worst it’ll give you a nasty cut and kill your warranty and kill your drive.
First the PCB as a whole, top and bottom.
Pretty standard looking, 16 flash chips, two chips of RAM for caching.
Let’s step through it. We’ll start with the controller: There’s a thermal pad that connects it to the metal part of the case to use as a heatsink.
Next, the cache, we have two of these: 2Gb (256MB) each, for 512MB total cache. Not bad!
Then there are the 16 flash chips themselves: Not surprisingly they’re 16GB each.
The there’re some power bits inside too
That’s about it. Let’s check out the performance next, shall we?
