A Closer Look
The brushed aluminium case of the SSD wrk looks beautiful and the text on it is stylish simple in matching white. At the top we see the drive name and size and at the bottom we have the Angelbird name and logo.
Turning the drive around to the backside, we see a link to the manufacturers homepage at the top. At the bottom we can read that it was designed and manufactured by Angelbird Austria, the copyright notice as well as the serial number. Of course the drive has all the relevant certification logos printed as well.
Opening up the drive, it all looks somewhat unusual. The SSD isn’t built in a 2 part top-bottom case like we are use to from most manufacturers, instead you have to loosen two screws and the tray slides right out. Well, it was a bit tricky to slide it out, but that is due to a distance-pad that is glued to the inside to prevent shorts. And lets face it, no normal user ever needs to open up their drive. The entire design is a little piece of art on its own and suits this unique drive very well.
Having removed the PCB from the frame, we see that the drive is powered by a Silicon Motion SM2246EN controller and has four 20 nm Micron MT29F256G08CECAB custom packed NAND chips on this side. We also see a 256MB DDR3(L) Nanya RAM chip to the top right.
Turning the PCB around to the other side and we find the last four 20 nm Micron NAND chips.
