The RevoDrive3 and its Packaging, a Picture Experience
As usual we’ll start with the box, it is a simple affair that gets the point across. The edges showed up a bit frayed but intact on the whole.
Inside the box is another box, this one made of far thicker material.
Even simpler box here. A third box slides out the side of this box!
Hey we finally found the drive! Deep in foam and wrapped in an anti-static bag. Note the label on the bag! Be careful about static with the RevoDrive series, their lack of a casing makes them less hardened against finger based static.
Unlike the previous SSDs we have reviewed I didn’t have to break a warranty sticker to get pictures of the internals. Refreshing!
Here we see two Sandforce controllers (pictures of them in a moment), a heatsink on top of another chip, and four flash chips out of a possible sixteen. In between the two controllers is a blank spot where the connector for a second PCB is placed for the X2 drives. That’s what the blank mounting holes are for, too.
