THE Q PRO 256GB

The aluminum casing of the 7mm thick Q Series Pro SSD gives it a nice industrial look.

A large sticker at the rear contains information about the drive such as the model name, serial and part numbers, barcodes, installed firmware version, electrical requirements, capacity and several certification logos.

Once again at the rear we see the usual SATA power and data connectors right next to 4 pins probably used for firmware updating.

Opening the casing is very easy and surprisingly enough both the NAND flash chips and the controller is placed on the other side of the PCB.

As you can see the controller and the NAND flash chips have thermal pads to transfer heat the aluminum casing.

This time over Toshiba has used their very own NAND flash controller (TC358790XBG) and has paired it with eight of their own 19nm MLC Toggle NAND flash chips (each is 32GB in capacity).