RYF: Micron 5100 1TB 2.5" SSD $78 @ OWC

[MrNoBody]

from our gracious host OWC
$77.76 + Tax shows Free USPS Shipping @ Checkout

3 Year OWC Fulfilled Warranty
SATA 6.0 Gb/s
Capacity: 960GB useable capacity
Total Flash Memory Components: 1200GB
240 GB Allocated as 20% performance over-provisioning
NAND: Micron Triple-Level Cell (TLC) 3D NAND Flash
SMART Support: Yes
Manufacturer Model Number: MTFDDAK960TCB-1AR B002/B006
2.5 inch X 7mm

[anonymouse1]

That is just silly cheap.

[MrNoBody]

anonymouse1 wrote:
That is just silly cheap.

yep! Made be glad I didn't run to MC for their $80(a/c) Inland 1TB.

Makes one wonder how low prices on 2.5" SSDs will be by Black Friday!

[pdq]

Wow. Awesome, OWC!

[Speedy]

anonymouse1 wrote:
That is just silly cheap.

Yep!

[RAMd®d]

That is just silly cheap.

And really tempting!

[freeradical]

What does all of this mean? What if I don't want encryption?

The self-encrypting drive (SED) features a AES-256 encryption engine, providing hardware-based, secure data encryption, with no loss of SSD performance. This SED follows the TCG Enterprise specification for trusted peripherals. When TCG Enterprise features are not enabled, the device can perform alternate data encryption by invoking the ATA security command set encryption features, to provide full disk encryption (FDE) managed in the host system BIOS. TCG Enterprise and ATA security feature sets cannot be enabled simultaneously.

The data encryption is always running; however, encryption keys are not managed and the data is not secure until either TCG Enterprise or ATA security feature sets are enabled.