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The SSD 840 EVO comes in a small black box. While there aren't a lot of details on the front, the back of the box lists many of the drive's features as well as its specifications. Inside, you'll find the SSD, warranty statement, installation guide, software and manual CD and a couple of "Samsung SSD Activated" stickers for your computer's case.
Physical Features:
Like Samsung's previous SSDs, the SSD 840 EVO is very well constructed. The drive's outer casing is made entirely out of aluminum and is very strong and lightweight. Instead of the black and orange color scheme found on the SSD 840 and SSD 840 Pro, the SSD 840 EVO is primarily dark gray in color. The Samsung logo and square have also been "blacked out", which adds to the drive's already stealthy look.
Upon opening the case, I was a bit surprised to see how small the SSD 840 EVO's PCB was. Instead of using a regular size PCB, Samsung has placed a 1.8" form factor PCB inside of a 2.5" case.
The SSD 840 EVO uses Samsung's new S4LN045X01-8030 controller chip. Developed entirely in house, this proprietary, triple-core MEX controller excels at multi-tasking. Based on an ARM Cortex R4 (400MHz) controller, its three CPU cores can execute multiple instructions such as reading data, writing data and optimization.
For the 750GB version of the SSD 840 EVO, Samsung used their own 19nm Toggle Mode MLC NAND flash chips. Looking at the pictures above, you can see that there are four 128GB (K90KGY8S7M-CCK0) chips on the front and four 64GB (K9CHGY8S5M-CCK0) chips on the back of the PCB. The drive also has a single 1TB K4P8G304EB-FGC2 LPDDR2 DRAM memory chip that is used for caching.
