Product Showcase

The SSD can be opened up and shows a half size PCB. This 6 Gbps (SATA3) storage unit makes use of Micron TLC 3D NAND. A total of two NAND flash memory ICs can be spotted on one side, and one more on the other (thus three in total) of the PCB for the entire 250GB (physically 256GB), there is provisioning for an SLC write cache, clearly 6GB. The NAND FLASH partitions are assigned directly to the controller.

Here we can see the Silicon Motion SM2258 4-channel controller, SM2258 also features advanced SLC Caching algorithms for optimal sustained performance with that NAND.
 

 
Sitting at its right side is a Hynix DDR3 chip, one for this SSD. That would be a 256MB DRAM cache buffer (1866 MHz). The SSD also makes use of that SLC buffer, and as our tests will show, that covers all bases writing-wise. 

 
As stated, the NAND is coming from Micron 7WB2D NW852, TLC written.
  

 
So that top cover shows something else, it not only cools the PCB and its components, it obviously has the RGB control unit harbored in there as well.
  

Our version has got the 5V RGB connection, again please make sure you buy a model that matches your motherboard RGB connector compatibility wise,  

• Delta RGB - connects to the 5V connector on the motherboard
• Delta X RGB - connects to the USB 2.0 connector on the motherboard,
• Delta S RGB - connects to the 12V connector on the motherboard.