THE 600 SSD 240GB

As expected we received the 600 SSD 240GB inside an antistatic bag (bulk).

Don't know if it really matters but it's good to see the "Assembled in the U.S.A" statement at the rear of the package.

The entire upper side of the 600 SSD is covered with a scratch-proof matte coating and as expected has the Seagate logo on it.

Turning the drive over we see that the back is just an aluminum plate on which there's a large sticker that contains all the usual information such as the units Serial and Part numbers, barcodes, model capacity, electrical requirements, country of manufacture, roll out date (17/04/13) and several certification logos.

Moving at the rear we see the SATA connector and 4 pins used for firmware updates (probably).

Unlike many SSD models in the market which are 9mm thick Seagate has launched the 600 SSD series both in 7mm (seen above) and in 5mm variants.

Removing the rear aluminum plate was not really hard but by doing so we did scratch the device a bit so we strongly recommend against doing so. That being said on the main side (the one facing the top) we see both the NAND/RAM chips (the 600 SSD 240GB comes with 256MB RAM) and the controller which is placed underneath a thermal pad.

The 19nm MLC NAND is manufactured by Toshiba and on the 240GB variant of the 600 SSD there are eight modules of 32GB each resulting in a total of 256GB (roughly 7% overprovisioning).

The LinkAMedia LM87800AA is made in Japan and gets cooled by the top section of the drive (via the thermal pad).