[geeks] Super/ultra capacitors for energy storage

[Nate Raymond]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:31 AM, William Enestvedt <
William.Enestvedt at jwu.edu> wrote:

>   When I compare that to the cache backup batteries in Sun A1000 arrays
> -- which had to be replaced every few years -- I am pretty interested.
>

For the last few years a lot of SSDs (all of the models targeted at
enterprise, some of the consumer models) have "super capacitors"
specifically to give the SSD enough juice to write out any cached data
during a power loss.

- Nate