THE 1200 SSD 400GB

Typically we received our sample inside a static-free plastic bag (actually we received two but our card doesn't support RAID).

The 2.5" housing of the 400GB variant is 7mm thick and rather plain without colors (much like most enterprise/industrial grade solutions).

On the sticker placed on the drive we see the company logo, product name, serial number, barcode, connectivity, part number, electrical requirements, capacity, factory rollout date, country of assembly and the installed firmware version (the sample which arrived later on had version 0005 installed so we decided on using that for out tests).

The 4 screws at the rear are the only thing separating us from the interior of the drive.

SAS connectivity is present at the rear of the drive along with 4 pins while at the front we find a service port and a power LED (green).

As you can see Seagate has used thermal pads to transfer heat from the modules to the aluminum housing.

There are 4 NAND flash packages on each side of the PCB along with 30 capacitors and 512MB of DDR3-1600 cache by Micron.

The custom-designed controller by Marvell is placed at the bottom of the PCB (to be honest i didn't expect to see the Marvell logo on it).

To test the 1200 SSD and other 12Gb/s compatible products from now on we'll be using a MegaRAID 9300-8i SATA/SAS host bus adapter by LSI/Avago.