About a year ago Crucial released drives series M500 , and to replace them already made product series M550, officially presented yesterday. Traditional partners for Crucial's is parent company Micron, which supplied M550 drives MLC memory released on 20-nm technology class , as well as the developer of controllers Marvell, which gave the chip 88SS9189.
Crucial claims that the M550 series drives offer not only high speed (550 MB / s sequential read operations on data blocks and 500 MB / s for write operations), but differ by low power consumption. In particular, compared to hard disk from Seagate Momentus 7200 r / min, drive M550 series consumes only 6% energy under load (0.15 W vs. 2.5 W). The performance level of M550 with nearly twenty times higher.
Drives Crucial M550 will be offered in a variety of form factors. In addition to the usual performance 2.5 "will be offered options with mSATA interface and M.2, which will be used in Ultrabooks and tablets. For the traditional size 2.5" storage capacity ranging from 64 GB to 1 TB, 128 GB drive in the company store offered $ 100, 256 GB version will cost $ 169 already, and terabyte option is estimated at $ 531.
M550 series drives support hardware encryption (Opal 2.0), equipped with a mechanism of protection against data loss during a power failure, a new regime of deep sleep to reduce power consumption in sleep mode and reduce the awakening time. In addition, the active heat management technology allows to limit the speed in those cases where it is important to keep the temperature in the rigid framework, but this feature will be used mainly in the tablet. Related Products :
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