I've been ridiculously busy lately, so there's not been any time for, say, extracurricular activities like writing. Hopefully things get a bit easier soon, too much busy wears me out too quickly.
I've been preparing for office move (slowly), and thus got rid of few older laptops. I did take out SSD first though. It was 240GB (or GiB?) drive. There was a time in past where I would have taken such drive immediately to use, but now ... No. Even if we ignore "it's old SSD and thus prone to failure" factor, it's tiny. Relatively speaking of course. My current laptop has 500GB SSD, and my desktop has 1TB SSD + 4TB HDD, so this would be serious downgrade in any way I could imagine.
So what then? Well, I haven't taken one apart yet ...
This was easy. Just few screw and I have the PCB in my hands. And it's pretty much what I expected. Loads of flash chips (OCZ M2502128T048AX22 marking, custom marking very likely, I could not find anything about it), SandForce SF-2281VB1 Controller (programmable app-specific chip, again, not much more) and some other chips.
Looks like there might be RS-232 port on top left (curious, but not enough to see whether anything comes out of it -- for now at least) and JTAG on top (chip next to it is Lattice POWR607 power management chip, so for programming it and very likely sandforce controller too). Chips at down are very power controllers (buck?) also.
Other side has some more flash, nothing much more.
All in all, pretty much what I expected.
Now, doing some basic math, 240GB divided by 16 chips makes 15GB per chip. A bit weird number, so I assume they have allocated 1GB per chip (16GB total, or around 6.25% of total capacity) for dead blocks and such.
So, back to wondering what I could do with this now, aside trashing it...
