THE M510DC 480GB

The 7mm thick enclosure of the M510DC is identical in size with pretty much every SATA SSD in the market currently.

Once again the sticker placed on the drive includes the drives model number, serial number, barcode, capacity, electrical specifications, country of manufacture, firmware version, certification and warning logos and the form factor (this also may mean that Micron is planning for an 1.8" model of the M510DC just like they did with the M500DC).

At the rear of the drive we find the typical SATA data and power connectors.

Micron uses regular Philips screws to secure the enclosure so accessing the interior was extremely easy.

On the bottom end of the PCB we see four 128Gbit 16nm synchronous MLC NAND flash modules and a 512MB DDR3@1600MHz DRAM module.

As expected the top end of the PCB has most components.

Here we see yet another 128Gbit 16nm synchronous MLC NAND flash module (all add up to 640GB so over provisioning is roughly 33% in our sample), another 512MB DDR3@1600MHz DRAM module, 13 tantalum power capacitors and the Marvell 88SS9187 NAND flash controller.