THE 535 SERIES 240GB

Although the Intel 535 Series is also available in a colorful retail box (as seen on the intro page) we received the "bulk" version which comes inside a plain cardboard box with a small sticker on which you can see the product serial number, factory rollout date, etc.

As expected from a bulk package there's just the drive inside wrapped in a static-free bag.

The 535 Series is yet another typical 7mm thick SSD.

On a large sticker at the bottom of the drive Intel has placed the drives installed firmware version, barcodes, serial number, country of manufacture, factory roll out date, capacity and several certification logos (the corrosion issue of the aluminum base we've seen with every SSD by Intel to date still exists).

The typical SATA power and data ports are located at the rear of the drive.

Opening the enclosure is very easy since once again Intel has used just 4 Philips screws. So on the top side of the PCB we find 8 NAND flash packages by SKhynix and the Intel BF29AS41BB0 controller.

On the opposite side we see 8 more NAND flash packages (16 in total on both sides each 16GB in capacity).