SanDisk SSD PLUS 240 GiB Review

The SanDisk SSD PLUS 240 GiB

Figure 1 shows the small box of the SanDisk SSD PLUS 240 GiB.

Figure 1: box of the SSD PLUS 240 GiB

Inside the box, we found the drive, a manual, a card with info to download a drive copying software, and a frame to stick at the top of the drive to make it mechanically compatible with laptops that require a 9.5 mm drive, since the SSD PLUS is only 7 mm thick.

Figure 2: package contents

The SSD PLUS has a very light plastic case.

Figure 3: the SanDisk SSD PLUS 240 GiB

The bottom cover is also plastic. In this cover is a sticker with the drive information, as seen in Figure 4.

Figure 4: bottom of the drive

The drive can be open with the help of a blade, since its cover is only fitted. Figure 5 shows the SSD PLUS open, unveiling its small PCB. On the solder side, we see only two flash memory chips.

Figure 5: the SSD PLUS open

On the component side, we see the controller chip and two more flash memory chips. There is no dedicated cache memory.

Figure 6: component side of the PCB

The SanDisk SSD PLUS uses a Silicon Motion SM2246XT controller chip.

Figure 7: controller

The NAND flash memory chips are marked as SanDisk. Unfortunately, we did not found more info about those memories.

Figure 8: memory chip