Seagate does not currently offer the 600 SSD as part of a retail kit. If you buy the drive from a retailer like Amazon or Newegg, it will come in a sealed, antistatic bag. As with most other OEM, or bulk, packaged drives, it doesn't come with any documentation or extras like an adapter bracket or mounting screws.
Physical Features:
Like Seagate's other storage products, the 600 SSD is very well constructed. The top of the outer casing is made out of metal and is covered by a durable, matte black finish. The bottom of the casing is also made out of metal but is much thinner and is held in place using clips rather than screws. The sticker on the bottom shows the drive's part number, capacity and serial number.
The 600 SSD is the first client SSD available in both 7mm and 5mm z-heights. Where the 7mm version is best suited for desktop and laptop computers, the 5mm version is ready for the next generation of ultrabooks and tablets.
Like Seagate's 600 Pro SSD, the 600 SSD uses a Link_A_Media Devices (LAMD) LM87800 controller. The LM87800 features two ARM cores and supports up to 8 NAND channels, variable over-provisioning and LAMD's own eBoost technology, which significantly enhances the endurance of NAND flash.
For the 240GB version of the 600 SSD, Seagate opted to use Toshiba's 32GB 19nm TH58TEG8DDJBA8C Toggle Mode NAND flash chips. Looking at the picture above, you can see that there are eight of these chips on the top of the PCB. The drive also has two 128MB Micron DDR2-800 memory chips that are used for caching.
