On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> The real danger with consumer drives is they don't have supercaps and
> can and will therefore corrupt your data on power failure. The actual
> write cycles aren't a big deal for many uses, as now even consumer
> drives have very long write cycle lives.
Don't forget about the Crucial M500, M550 and Samsung 840 Pro - those
all have power loss protection, though have other drawbacks. The
Crucial drives in particular don't expose any sort of wear status
through SMART.
-Dave
