Corsair Force LS 120 GiB SSD Review
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Opening the Corsair Force LS 120 GiB, we were surprised by the very small PCB, as revealed in Figure 4. It also shows that the board has no chips at its solder side.
Figure 4: unit open
Figure 5 shows the component side of the SSD board, where the controller and two NAND flash memory chips are located.
Figure 5: component side
The controller used by the Force LS 120 GiB is the PHISON PS3109-S9, which supports the SATA-600 interface.
Figure 6: controller
The model of the NAND flash memory chips is IP79G5SAPH, from IM Flash (Intel/Micron), with 64 GiB of storage space each.
Figure 7: memory chip