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>Has a coin-cell backup battery which is interesting. I wonder what that's for? Making it a bit harder to reset the clock and disconnect internet to work around
by polytely 6y ago
>Has a coin-cell backup battery which is interesting. I wonder what that's for? Making it a bit harder to reset the clock and disconnect internet to work around time limits? Do they do game rentals on PlayStation?
It might be to keep the SSD storage alive if the unit is disconnected from power, correct me on this if I'm wrong but I think SSD's can lose data when they lose power for a long period.
- outworlder 6y ago> correct me on this if I'm wrong but I think SSD's can lose data when they lose power for a long period. Consider yourself corrected :) SSDs will not lose data if left unpowered.
- pengaru 6y agoThat's not exactly true, but we're talking spans on the order of years without power to start losing data.
- maven29 6y agoWould a coin cell be sufficient to deal with the uncommitted writes still in the SSD's DRAM buffer?
- pengaru 6y agoIn his The Amp Hour interview, the late Chuck Peddle described developing new DRAM-based SSDs where they were using super capacitors to power this flushing operation. But I'd assume the coin cell in question here is a conventional RTC battery.
- polytely 6y agoI hereby stand corrected!