The pie chart shows weight contribu on of various components of the WD CH SN560 SSD. Printed Circuit Board (PCB) [62%], followed by Molding Compound [10%], Controller Assembly [7%], Memory Substrate [5%], Memory Wafer [4%], DAF & Solder Ball [4%]. Other electronic and non-electronic components weight is less than 1%.
Breakdown of Carbon Footprint by Life Cycle Stages2:
[65%] of the climate change impacts are from the Use phase, followed by the Manufacturing phase [35%], Distribution phase and End-of-Life phase have minimal impact [<1%]. Use phase impacts are primarily attributable to energy consumed by the product during its useful life. Manufacturing impacts are driven by resource consumption during the product assembly & sub-assembly processes, distribution phase impacts are focused on transportation of the product from the manufacturing location to the customer location.
One terabyte (TB) is equal to one trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less due to opera ng environment.
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