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I just bought 5 MX100 256GB drives because of the price point and the capacitors ^.^
You know that these capacitors do not provide a full power-loss protection?
They are to small for that, they are probably just enough to keep the drive from corrupting its mapping table from a power loss and bricking.
The specified endurance rating is much better than Samsung guarantees even for their Pro line.
And now Crucial even has a 1TB model on the budged line.
Would it have been better to go with something such as an S3500/ S3700? I can't seem to find any write ups on the actual capacitors used in such drives (economy/ desktop SSDs). I would love it if the manufactures released more information....
You know that these capacitors do not provide a full power-loss protection?
They are to small for that, they are probably just enough to keep the drive from corrupting its mapping table from a power loss and bricking.
The specified endurance rating is much better than Samsung guarantees even for their Pro line.
And now Crucial even has a 1TB model on the budged line.
Interesting, I was under the impression that the MX100 drives had power loss protection as well. Good to know that isn't the case before I picked up a full set!
Interesting, I was under the impression that the MX100 drives had power loss protection as well. Good to know that isn't the case before I picked up a full set!
Would it have been better to go with something such as an S3500/ S3700? I can't seem to find any write ups on the actual capacitors used in such drives (economy/ desktop SSDs). I would love it if the manufactures released more information....
SATA Drives with full power loss protection are the S3700/S3500, the Seagate 600 Pro, and and the datacenter versions of the consumer drives like the Crucial/Micron M500DC, Samsung 845DC. The 730 supposedly has the same hardware design as the S3500, but there is an article about that from Patrick on STH that the 730 has a bit different set of SMART attributes and is also advertised differently.
It does have PLP, just not end-to-end PLP like the Intel 730 does.
The Crucial drives will prevent corruption happening for data already residing on the SSD in the event of a power loss. The Intel has enough capacitance to allow the same thing, as well as any cached data to be written to the drive during a power loss.
What you do gain with the MX100/M500/M550 over the Intel 730 is Opal 2, Microsoft eDrive, and IEEE-1667 compliancy, which the 730 lacks on all fronts. When I purchased an SSD for my BDE-enabled work laptop, the MX100 was a no-brainer because of the balance of low cost, very good performance, and those key encryption-friendly features.
What you do gain with the MX100/M500/M550 over the Intel 730 is Opal 2, Microsoft eDrive, and IEEE-1667 compliancy, which the 730 lacks on all fronts. When I purchased an SSD for my BDE-enabled work laptop, the MX100 was a no-brainer because of the balance of low cost, very good performance, and those key encryption-friendly features.
Yes, but the question is HOW do you take advantage of these features easily without jumping through hoops. It seems like how to do it properly is different for different machines, and it took me days to figure out how to utilize Microsoft eDrive for my wife's new Latitude and MX100 I bought for her.
Seems overly ridiculous to me to not have some kind of software to simply enable these features like how Dell has DDPE (Dell Data Protection Encryption) to enable the hardware features on Dell's OPAL SSD's.
TPM + Bitlocker + AD + OPAL/eDrive/IEEE-1667 = hardware and software based data protection.
More robust than DDPE, imo.
The boot order must be set to start first from the SSD (not the USB or CD drives)
Make sure UEFI boot is enabled and you have a UEFI enabled Windows 8 installed
The system needs to support UEFI 2.3.1
BitLocker only supports TPM version 1.2 and 2.0 (or newer). In addition, you must use a Microsoft-provided TPM driver
(Please note, BitLocker can also work without a TPM, it will need a USB flash drive to set the password instead then)
The computer must boot natively from UEFI.
Dynamic discs are not supported by BitLocker
The SSD must have two partitions (drives with Windows installed generally do anyway) and the main partition to be encrypted must be NTFS
Ensure Secure Boot is disabled in the UEFI.
The MX100 supports either ATA Security (like Secure Boot) or TCG Opal (which is needed for SED) but not both.
The computer must have the Compatibility Support Module (CSM) disabled in UEFI.