Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2019-08-16
As the Armor A75, the Bolt B75 does feature a military-grade shockproof casing that is quite light and also acts as a heatsink for the internal SSD. Being based on a SATA 6Gb/s internal SSD interface, the drive is limited a bit in terms of reads/writes, even before the cache fills up, but for regular backup tasks that do not involve usage of very big files, this should be a non-issue.
As we have seen before with the Armor A75, the new drive chassis does feature a design inspired from the Junkers F.13, which was an impressive German transport plane. The corrugated duralumin metal skin did inspire the design team to add unbending ridges on both sides, for additional durability purposes:
Near the shiny SP logo, we will find an L-shaped status LED, in order for it to be visible from more angles:
Silicon Power does also note the drive total storage capacity on the bottom area of the chassis, and here we can also observe four removable screws:
After the removal of the said screws, we can take a look closer at the drive construction:
The Bolt B75 does use a SATA to USB 3.1 adapter PCB:
At its core, it comes with an ASMedia ASM225CM controller, that bridges the USB 3.1 to SATA 6Gbps interfaces:
The used drive does not have any markings/stickers of any kind and after its removal from the chassis, we will observe the semi-transparent plastic layer, along with the thermal pad used for cooling purposes:
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