Originally Posted By: mlord
I would (and have) pick the cheaper new Crucial M500 960GB SSDs over the Samsung any day. Much more durable flash chips in the M500, as well as a bank of power-fail capacitors to keep things sane.


Anand recently discovered that those power-fail capacitors don't do exactly what he/we thought they did, nor what the marketing materials claimed they did.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8528/micron-m600-128gb-256gb-1tb-ssd-review-nda-placeholder

Still a good idea, just not as good as previously believed.