The opposite side presents itself with two cut-outs, which do serve for fitting a possible lanyard:
On the bottom unit area, we can find a circular rubber foot; the total drive capacity is also written in the middle and in order to disassemble the unit, we must remove the six screws:
As we have seen with other high-end peripherals, the USB transfer cable is braided, while the connectors do follow the design style of the B80:
After removing the bottom aluminum cover, we will get to see the gaskets for vibration dampening purposes but also for keeping dust and water out:
Bolt B80 does feature a simple construction, with a mSATA to USB 3.1 Type-C adapter board and the mSATA SSD itself:
Thanks to the modular design, we can replace the supplied SSD with any other mSATA model, if desired:
The supplied SSD is a DRAM-less design:
This part is driven by a PHISON PS3111-S11 single-core SSD controller that supports technologies such as SmartECC, SmartFlush, GuaranteedFlush, SmartZIP, built-in static and dynamic wear-leveling, power saving features but also end-to-end Data Path Protection:
The NAND Flash ICs are from Micron and carry the NW838 code name; these are 3D TLC, so a drop in performance is expected after the SLC portion, which acts as a cache has been filled:
On the opposite side of the PCB, we have placeholders for two additional ICs (the 480GB version comes with these installed):
