Crucial BX100 250 GiB SSD Review
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On the component side of the PCB, there are four flash memory chips, the controller, and a DDR3 memory chip that is used as a buffer. Over the controller, there is a small piece of heat conducting material, that transfers the heat generated by the chip to the case of the SSD.
Figure 4: PCB of the Crucial BX100 250 GiB
The controller used by the Crucial BX100 is the Silicon Motion SM2246EN.
Figure 5: Silicon Motion SM2246EN controller
There is a DDR3L-1600 256 MiB memory chip from Micron itself, model MT41K128M16JT-125 M, that acts as a data buffer.
Figure 6: DDR3 memory used as a buffer
The NAND flash memory chips are also from Micron, with code NW744. Unfortunately, this chip is not listed at Micron’s website.
Figure 7: flash memory chip