On 23/05/13 13:32, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> On 23/05/13 13:01, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>
>> On 05/22/2013 04:37 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Joshua D. Drake
>>> <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>>>> I am curious how the 710 or S3700 stacks up against the new M500 from
>>>> Crucial? I know Intel is kind of the goto for these things but the
>>>> m500 is
>>>> power off protected and rated at: Endurance: 72TB total bytes
>>>> written (TBW),
>>>> equal to 40GB per day for 5 years .
>>>
>>> I don't think the m500 is power safe (nor is any drive at the <1$/gb
>>> price point).
>>
>> According the the data sheet it is power safe.
>>
>> http://investors.micron.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=732650
>> http://www.micron.com/products/solid-state-storage/client-ssd/m500-ssd
>>
>>
>
> Yeah - they apparently have a capacitor on board.
>
Make that quite a few capacitors (top right corner):
http://regmedia.co.uk/2013/05/07/m500_4.jpg
