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There isn’t a whole lot to see, so we’re only doing one page of photos today. We’ll start with the packaging, calling it a box seems silly.
Like I said, there isn’t much to the packaging here! Given the actual size of the drive the packaging is almost excessive though. In any case, I appreciate the simplicity and directness of the packaging.
The label as the usual info and a bunch of certifications. It also covers the controller, cache, and two of four flash chips. It’ll have to come off.
There we go, two flash chips, 256MB of DDR3 for cache and a Marvel controller (with custom Micron/Crucial firmware), plus a clock crystal and some capacitors/resistors. There’s more on the other side of course.
Two more flash chips, a buck voltage regulator (multi-output) and a few other bits. That’s all there is to it!
Installing the thing is either simple, like on this Zotac Z77-ITX-WiFi:
Slide it into the slot, push it down, add a screw on the end and you’re done. Not hard at all. Or it can be really simple like on the Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H:
Slide it in, push it down. The clips grab it and hold it in place. Very, easy. In any case, installation is quite simple.
Time for testing, don’t you think?
