Description
Micron MTFDDAV240TCB 240GB SATA M.2 SSD
The MTFDDAV240TCB is Micron's 5100 PRO at 240GB, an M.2 2280 board running SATA at 6Gb/s with triple-level cell flash. It carries power loss protection, shortened to PLP, and that's what makes it an enterprise drive rather than a desktop one. Capacitors sit on the board holding enough charge to finish any write already underway when the power disappears. At 240GB, this is boot drive territory rather than bulk storage.
Key Features
- 240GB of capacity on a single M.2 2280 board
- Power loss protection built into the drive itself
- SATA running at 6Gb/s
- Triple-level cell flash, three bits held per memory cell
- Micron 5100 PRO series, an enterprise range
- RoHS and WEEE compliant
Performance and Applications
Every SSD holds a small amount of data in volatile memory before committing it to flash. Cut the power at that moment and whatever was in flight disappears, along with part of the drive's internal map of where everything lives. Capacitors solve that by keeping the controller alive just long enough to finish the job. For a hypervisor boot volume or a database log, that's the difference between a clean restart and a rebuild from backup the next morning.
Compatibility and Installation
You need an M.2 2280 slot keyed for SATA rather than NVMe, which rules out a good number of newer boards. Server motherboards carrying M.2 slots are the usual home for a drive like this. Fitting takes one screw at the 80mm standoff, and 240GB suits a mirrored boot pair sitting alongside larger data drives.
Micron MTFDDAV240TCB 240GB SSD for Power-Loss Protected Boot Volumes
For a server booting from M.2 where a sudden outage can't be allowed to corrupt anything, this one is built for the job. 240GB of enterprise SATA flash with capacitors keeping watch on the power.
