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I'll make it short and sweet, for everyone's benefit: The Good: MLC baby... The 400GB version comes with 7.0PB endurance. With a three year warranty, that is 16 full drive writes per day. Optane territory in 2013. Its firmware has TRIM option and "SANITIZE feature set" (BLOCK_ERASE_EXT and OVERWRITE_EXT, both working). Decent Marvell controller, doesn't saturate the SATA III interface though (380MB/s reads, 310MB/s writes with 64KB blocks). It's supported by Micron's "Storage Executive", I upgraded mine to the latest firmware (0225). Massive tantalum capacitors prevent data loss in case of power failure (real enterprise feature). The Bad: Modest size by today standards (tops at 400GB). Don't think to put them in an old laptop (the top label says 5V/2A). Long out of warranty. The Ugly: With the race to the bottom (TLC/QLC), MLC drives are pieces of museum or blood curdling pricewise (the current enterprise ones). If you are a Linux/BSD tinkerer and find them reasonable priced, go for it. Micro$oft's users need not apply, that bloated abomination can barely fit inside (and it doesn't deserve either). WARNING: There are two versions of this drive (1S1AA and 2S1AA). The ones ending in "2S1AA" are formatted with 520/528 bytes/sector (usually in EMC environments) and good luck reconverting them to 512 bytes /sector. Read full review
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