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The drive comes in a compact box with a clear image of the drive on the front. Under the image is the drive capacity. The rear of the box has a limited specification list for the drive, next to this is a window which shows the product label on the rear of the drive. To the right of this is a QR code that gives you access to the Quick Start Guide, warranty and additional product information.
The 4TB X570 PRO is built on a single-layer PCB (components on one side of the PCB). The drive doesn't have a heatsink but the front product label sits on a graphene thermal pad to keep the drive cool. On one side of the PCB sits the Silicon Motion’s SM2508 controller, two 232-layer TLC NAND packages and a 4GB DRAM IC.
We've not seen Silicon Motion’s SM2508 controller before but the 8-channel controller has been designed to offer both high performance and power efficiency. Built on a 6nm process the SM2508 uses a quad-core ARM Cortex R8 CPU that supports four 32Gb/s PCIe lanes. The NAND channels have a bus rate of up to 3,600 MT/s each which provides the up to 14.5 GB/s and 14 GB/s sequential (read and write respectively) and up to 2.5M/2.5M IOPS random read/write performance.
Using a 6nm process allows the SM2508 to be very efficient when it comes to power consumption (Silicon Motion claim 30% active power reduction over previous generation IC).
You don't even have to dig out a screwdriver to install the drive as a handy little screwdriver is bundled with the drive along with a fixing screw.
