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If you think there isn’t much to talk about with the packaging with small devices like this, it's not much better when it comes to the drive. In the past with SATA drives we at least had to break the drive down to see whats inside. M.2 drives normally just have a sticker covering things at best. Is it a good looking sticker though right? So we spotted most of this through the hole in the box. The drive has the model and serial number info on it as well as the normal regulatory logos. The capacity is visible in the top left corner as well. The split black and white look is fitting and doesn’t take any time at all to know this is a Western Digital Black drive, they have been running this same theme for years on their hard drives. I like that the drive also has a matching black PCB, the one on the box actually was blue and I thought it was weird to go all out with a Black drive but not stick with the theme on the PCB.

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image 6So I lifted the sticker off of the drive carefully to get a look at what Western Digital has going on here. It is a little scary just how easy it is to remove and read the sticker though, so when you are buying these drives used be careful. Not to give people ideas, but these stickers could be swapped around. Anyhow the drive has an interesting layout with the controller right in the middle,  it is the square chip with a lighter grey color. The two chips on the ends are both SanDisk 64 layer 3D TLC NAND. The SK Hynix chip is a DDR4 DRAM chip for cache duty running at 2400MHz. One thing is for sure they don’t waste any space here.

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The opposite is going on with the back of the drive though. It is a completely one-sided SSD so even at the 1TB capacity of our test drive they do have room to expand if needed

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