KingFast E-Drive 2.5'' SATAIII SLC 120GB SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2013-05-29

The E-Drive SSD from KingFast sports high reliability SLC NAND flash from Intel, along with the proven LSI SandForce SF-2281 controller, which makes it ideal in enterprise environments. The product is available in 60GB and 120GB capacities, with no 240GB in sight yet and we also get a full 3-year warranty.

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A Closer Look Contd.

On the back side the manufacturer did not place any specification stickers, besides a warranty small one in one of the corners, which forbids us opening it up:

 

 

 

 

The KF2510SCF model was held in only 4 screws which were larger and were also passing through the PCB. This model is built better, and the SSD PCB is held fixed by other four small screws:

 

 

 

On the left side we’ll find the SSD controller and on the right we have no less than eight NAND Flash ICs:

 

 

 

Curious regarding the controller? Well, there is nothing new here, only the SF-2281 from SandForce which we have seen many, many times before:

 

 

 

The Intel 25nm SLC NAND comes with the 29F16B16NCNE1 part number:

 

 

 

On the bottom side of the PCB we can see the placeholders for other 8 NAND Flash chips:

 

 

 

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