THE VECTOR 180 480GB

We have come to expect all SSDs to look alike and that also applies for the Vector 180 (besides it's what sits inside that we care for).

You can find the serial, part and World Wide Name numbers for the drive on a sticker placed on its belly.

OCZ makes removing the exterior extremely easy (just 4 Philips screws).

On one side of the PCB we find 8 MLC NAND flash modules by Toshiba, a DRAM (DDR3@1333MHz) chip by Micron (512MB) and the Indillinx Barefoot 3 NAND flash controller.

Moving on the other side we see 8 more NAND flash modules, another 512MB DRAM (DDR3@1333MHz) chip by Micron (1GB total) and the capacitor used by the Power Failure Management Plus (PFM+) technology.