Fast low power SSD comes in three formats

The M550 SSD is offered in three form factors – 2.5-inch SATA 6Gbit/s, mSATA, and M.2. It features capacities from 64 Gbytes to 1Tbyte with sequential read/write performance of 550/500 Mbytes/s.Active average power consumption is just 150 mW, typical.

The drive incorporates hardware encryption, a sleep mode takingless than 3 mw, data protection during power loss, and adaptivethermal management. The drive uses Micron 20-nm MLC NAND flash ICs.A 512 Gbyte CT512M550SSD3 mSATA internal drive sellsfor about $337.