THE 840 EVO 250GB

The 7mm thick aluminum housing of the 840 EVO has a dark grey color and at the top it only has the company logo along with an arrow pointing at the rear.

A large sticker at the rear contains information such as the drive capacity, part number, serial number, barcodes, electrical requirements and several certification and warning icons. To access the interior you will need to remove the two torx T5 screws placed beneath the sticker and the third right next to it.

At the rear we only see the SATA power and data connectors so firmware update should be software only.

Once you remove the cover you will see that the PCB is actually less than half of the interior and on the upper side it only has a single 128GB NAND package.

On the other side we see the 2nd 128GB NAND package, 512MB LPDDR2-1066 DRAM and the controller.