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The box front has a good clear image of the Toshiba OCZ VX500 drive and a very small drive capacity label which can be quite hard to make out under certain angles. The rear of the box carries a panel listing some of the drive's features and a multilingual panel highlighting where to get more detailed product and warranty information.
The only items in the box, aside from the drive, are a small multi-language manual and a download voucher for Acronis True Image HD cloning software, which is a welcome addition.
The VX500 is built on a standard 2.5in, 7mm-thick format and is encased in a lightweight metal enclosure held together by four screws recessed into the top of the drive. Unusually for a consumer SSD of today, the eight NAND chips and the controller have individual thermal pads on them to help dissipate heat.
All of the drive's components are built onto one side of the PCB. At the heart of the drive is a Toshiba TC358790XBG controller – a component that Toshiba has used in a number of drives in both consumer and enterprise product lines.
In the case of the 512GB unit, the controller looks after the eight 64GB Toshiba (TH58TFG9DFLBA8C) A15 15nm MLC NAND packages that make up the drive's capacity.
The SSD management software is called SSD Utility. While the name might be a bit bland the software has some useful features. Dashboard is the main page and shows drive capacity and how it's being used, firmware information, a readout from the drive's temperature sensor and the drive's health.
There's also a built-in performance benchmark, the ability to securely erase the drive, update the firmware and to set the over-provisioning level.
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