Seagate 600 480 GB vs. Kingston HyperX 3K 480 GB SSD Review

The Seagate 600 480 GB

The Seagate 600 features a metal casing in the upper side, and pressure inserted metal plate in the underside. As we mentioned before, it has 7 mm of thickness, being compatible with thin laptops and ultrabooks that use this form factor. There is also a version of this unit which is 5 mm thick.

Seagate 600 480 GB vs. Kingston HyperX 3K 480 GB SSD ReviewFigure 2: The Seagate 600 480 GB

Seagate 600 480 GB vs. Kingston HyperX 3K 480 GB SSD ReviewFigure 3: The Seagate 600 480 GB (underside)

On the top side of the PCB there are eight 64 GiB Toshiba TH58TEG9DDJBA89 memory chips, the Link-A Media LM87800 controller, and two 256 MiB Micron MT47H256M8EB-25E cache chips.

Seagate 600 480 GB vs. Kingston HyperX 3K 480 GB SSD ReviewFigure 4: The Seagate 600 480 GB PCB

There are no components at the other side of the board.

Seagate 600 480 GB vs. Kingston HyperX 3K 480 GB SSD ReviewFigure 5: The Seagate 600 480 GB PCB (underside)

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