OCZ Enyo Cracking it Open up

So we now know what the Enyo looks like from the exterior, but what lurks beneath that shiny exterior? In true TechSpot fashion nosotros are going to strip it down, exposing the naked PCB to detect just what it is that makes the Enyo tick.

Under the hood we found that the Enyo is driven by the Indilinx 'Barefoot' controller with the standard 64MB enshroud. This is of course the very aforementioned controller that was made famous by the original OCZ Vertex series and was later adopted by the more affordable Agility too. While we were somewhat surprised to find the Indilinx Barefoot controller inside the Enyo now that OCZ is using SandForce chips on more and more products, the selection actually makes perfect sense.

The Barefoot is a tried and true SSD controller that delivers splendid operation while likewise providing maximum storage, and it does so at a reasonable toll -- at least equally far as SSD technology as a whole is concerned. In fact, we were probably more surprised by the pick due to the high esteem that nosotros agree the Barefoot in.

Too found on the PCB are a number of Intel "29F64G08CAMD8" 32nm NAND flash memory chips, along with the 64MB enshroud retention flake from Elpida and a USB 3.0 to SATA controller chip from Symwave. The Symwave SW6315 is designed for utilise in external storage devices and it's what enables the Enyo to hands outperform any product designed to use the USB 2.0 jitney. To put things into perspective, where a typical USB 2.0 bulldoze would take a painstakingly long 9 minutes to transfer 16GB worth of data, this external storage device stands to practice it in under a infinitesimal.

As the almost dominant interface for PCs and consumer products, more than than 10 billion USB ports shipped in 2009. Leveraging the ubiquity and commonality of USB in today's consumer devices, the USB-IF released the complete specification for SuperSpeed USB 3.0 on November 17, 2008. The latest revision of the standard offers a theoretical 5Gbps (10x increment) transfer rate and several "green" improvements, including better ability management, lower PC processor brunt and lower total operational power, all while maintaining backwards compatibility with legacy ports.