Wednesday, December 04

Geek

All I Want For Christmas Is A TERABYTE OF SSD!!!

So I bought one.  Went for the 960GB Crucial m500 over the similarly-priced 1TB Samsung 840 EVO because the EVO is all about speed, where the m500 is all about not losing your data.  

The m500 offers internal redundancy (it can survive a entire flash die going bad) and power loss protection (the 1GB of internal RAM is backed up by capacitors long enough to flush the cache to flash).  The EVO offers a high-performance mode where writes are cached in system memory - brilliant right up until you have a crash or power outage.

They're both great products (though I really wouldn't suggest turning on "rapid mode" on the EVO); I just went with the more conservative offering.

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1 I put one in my MacBook Pro back in July (replacing the OWC 240GB that's been in there for several years), and it's been great. I've been toying with the idea of putting a second one in, now that they're in wider distribution. Or maybe putting two of them into my Windows gaming laptop, or ...

-j

Posted by: J Greely at Wednesday, December 04 2013 10:45 AM (+cEg2)

2 How much do they cost?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, December 04 2013 04:38 PM (+rSRq)

3 Currently $515 on Amazon US.

-j

Posted by: J Greely at Wednesday, December 04 2013 06:45 PM (+cEg2)

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