THE DC450R 480GB

The DC450R 480GB arrived inside a blister package from where you can actually see the drive.

A few words about the product and its 5-year limited warranty are printed at the rear of the package in several languages.

Just like past models the top of the DC450R is almost entirely taken by a large sticker which contains the usual information such as the capacity of the drive, installed firmware, product serial number, barcode, electrical requirements and several certification logos.

At the base of the drive we just find mounting holes.

Typically, at the rear we find the SATA data and power connectors.

As expected from a drive that is available in capacities up to 3.84TB Kingston has used a full-sized PCB.

One of the sides is virtually empty and obviously populated in higher capacity models.

Everything is located on the other side including the Phison PS3112-S12DC controller, the 512MB DDR4 SDRAM module and eight 64-layer BiCS3 3D TLC NAND flash modules (64GB in capacity each).