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Yes, that's true. However, Crucial explicitly marketed their SSDs as having, quote, "power loss protection", pointing out the array of capacitors on the drive'
by rosser 11y ago
Yes, that's true.
However, Crucial explicitly marketed their SSDs as having, quote, "power loss protection", pointing out the array of capacitors on the drive's PCB, and strongly implying that this feature included in-flight writes surviving a power loss (i.e., that the caps had enough capacity to enable flushing the DRAM buffer to the NAND media, much like the non Sandforce-based Intel SSDs — e.g., the 320 series from a few years back, or the current DC-3500 and -3700 drives).
That, it turns out, isn't true.
And that's a problem, because I and many others bought these drives on the basis of Crucial's implying they were power-loss durable. When enough people started reporting to Crucial support that their drives didn't, in point of actual fact, offer this feature, their marketing literature changed so as not to imply they did, and forum posts and reviews, like my previously-linked Anand Tech article, started pointing out that they didn't.