THE LAPTOP THIN SSHD 500GB

Ok once again we received our sample inside an anti-static plastic bag (bulk) but Seagate should also have it available in retail package.

The Laptop Thin SSHD 500GB is a 5400RPM 2.5" SATA III (6Gb/s) drive featuring 8GB of MLC NAND Flash and 64MB of DRAM cache.

As you can see the sticker on our sample is not the retail one but still it has information printed on it such as the units serial number, part number, barcode, electrical specifications, factory roll out date (3/3/2013) and much more.

The NAND flash modules along with the DRAM cache modules are placed on the interior of the blue PCB.

At the rear we see the typical SATA data and power connectors along with 4 pins (probably used for hardware firmware updates).

The Laptop Thin SSHD is just 7mm thick just like the recently released 600 SSD again by Seagate.

Removing the PCB is not hard so right behind it we see an ASIC chip for NAND management, LSI controller, Samsung 8GB MLC NAND flash module and a 64MB DRAM module (this time by Nanya).