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The Corsair Performance Pro 256GB SSD arrives in a very dramatic, monotone style box with the name, capacity and details on the front.
Corsair include a useful 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch adapter with mounting screws taped to one side.
The drive is protected by a silver aluminum shell which is sealed with four simple screws. Many SSD manufacturers are making it more difficult to get to the insides lately, so this was welcomed.
Corsair have spent extra attention to the insides, placing thermal pads on both sides of the chassis.
The Performance Pro drive is using eight Toshiba 34nm NAND flash memory modules, 32GB each, totaling 256GB. When formatted, this reduces to 238GB. Above, you can see two 256MB NANYA DDR3 1333 DRAM memory modules which are used for caching and garbage collection.
Corsair are using the Marvell 88S-9174 BKK2 controller. This is a popular controller used in some products from Intel and Crucial. Corsair are using a custom firmware for this specific drive, so performance is likely to be different from other products using the same controller.
