The Spatium M480 comes in a well-constructed box with a large image of the drive on the front with the capacity and Sequential read speed listed above the image and the fact that it is a PCIe 4.0 drive under it, above the drive name.
The back of the box repeats the same information as the front along with a logo stating that the drive is covered by a 5-year warranty. To the left of this logo is some multi-lingual marketing information.
Opening the box reveals very well packed individual components; the chunky aluminium heatsink (with a thermal pad on its base), the Spatium M480 drive and the cradle for both drive and heatsink and finally the fixing screws to connect heatsink to cradle. There's also a fixing guide and a warranty booklet included in the box.
Searching the old great matter, we're not sure we've ever come across a drive packed quite like the Spatium M480 but it does mean that if you using any motherboard with its own integrated cooling system then it's a simple installation, but even if you have to use the heatsink, it only takes a couple of minutes to put the heatsink together.
The Spatium M480 2TB drive is built on a dual-sided format. One side of the PCB holds the Phison PS5018-E18 controller, a 1GB SkHynix DDR4-2666 (H5AN8G6NCJR-VKC) IC to store mapping tables and four 256GB packages of Micron 96-Layer 3D TLC NAND (IA7BG64AIA). The other side of the PCB has another 1GB DRAM IC together with another four 256GB NAND packages.
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