Product showcase

The SSD can be opened up and shows a full-sized PCB with a spacer that spans the drive perimeter. This 6Gbps storage unit makes use of MLC Synchronous NAND. A total of eight NAND flash memory ICs can be spotted on the top side of the PCB. The NAND FLASH partitions are assigned directly to the controller. All the way to the upper left you can see an IC, that in fact is the controller.

Here we can see the Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller. This is an eight-channel controller. The M10 series controller will support up to say roughly 540MB/s sequential read and write speeds, that's a good 67.5MB/s per one of the available eight channels. Combined the bandwidth is just exceptional for a single non RAID drive.

As stated, the MLC NAND used is 20nm in architecture and originates from IMTF (Micron). A total of 16 NAND flash memory ICs (8 on each side) are present on the PCB. 

OCZ is giving the Vertex 450 256GB a huge cache, there are two micron RAM ICs (one at front and one at the backside of the PCB) offering a very cool 512MB of cache space. As you can see from ther SMT traces, there's room for more RAM to be embedded.