Product Showcase

The SSD can be opened up and shows a half size PCB. This 6 Gbps storage unit makes use of Samsung's own TLC planar 16 nm NAND. A total of just four NAND flash memory ICs can be spotted on the PCB for the entire 500 GB. The NAND FLASH partitions are assigned directly to the controller. All the way to the upper left you can see two ICs, these are in fact a RAM cache IC and the controller.
  

Here we can see the MGX controller. This is multi-core controller with the ability of a possible 175 MB/s to 200 MB/s per channel throughput, which is a really high value yet becoming the norm for enthusiast class SSDs. 
 

In the photo above we zoom in a little on the 512 MB DDR3 memory cache chip from Samsung. This functions as cache chip/buffer.
  

As stated, the NAND used is the 16 nm planar NAND which we're sure is TLC written. The SSD is guaranteed at 100 TB written, so it'll likely out-life your PC lifespan anyway. The carry-in warranty ends at 3 years though.
 

An interesting fact is that the power consumption of the Samsung SSD is extraordinary low with an IDLE rating of 50 mW and roughly 3 Watts when active. We can see these SSDs end up in both notebooks and PCs with such numbers.
 

This is the backside of the PCB, just two NAND ICs as well, in total on both sides you will count four of them. Less components needed equals a cheaper to produce product.