Kingston now offers a wide range of SSD and like OCZ uses several different controllers: JMicron, Intel and Samsung via clones X25-E and X25-M. In their range, SSDNow E-Series line with Intel X25-E, SSDNow M-Series with Intel X25-M, the V-Series controller JMF602 use and is also in this series had taken up the ephemeral 40GB SSD derived from the Intel X25-V. Finally, the series of V + uses different controllers by reference. The SNV225 are copies of the Samsung SSD PB22-J and are already dying within 6 months after their introduction. They are now replaced by SNVP325 using a novel controller: the Toshiba T6UG1XBG. With JMicron, Intel, Indilinx, Samsung, Phison, SandForce and Marvell, this brings to 8 the number of manufacturers of controllers who have invested large public SSDs. It is clearly a good thing compared to the situation two years ago when JMicron and Samsung shared the bulk of this market, very little time. It still remains today as the confidential sales estimates for 2009 were adopted on 11 million units sold, all brands combined, where Western Digital sold alone 50 million disks a quarter ....

But back to this new controller Toshiba. Unable to open the SSD because of screw completely ruined by the tester of our previous example, we procured the pictures taken by our colleagueBenchmarkreviews. By observing the PCB, we see that the layout is very "tight" with NAND flash chips rather large compared to those previously observed in other DSS. Note also that the memory chip acting as a cache is very close to the controller. This provision is intended by Toshiba to optimize the dissipation of heat generated. All these chips are actually in contact with a thermal pad located on the backside of the box DSS. This design requires the presence of chips on a single side PCB.