A stepping, in the semiconductor industry, means a revision of one of the integrated circuits - probably the controller chip. Such revisions are usually to correct errors (er - "errata"). Intel publishes errata lists for its CPUs but may not for th...
No, you don't understand. An SSD isn't like a magnetic drive - when you "overwrite" a block with zeroes, what actually happens, due to wear-leveling algorithms, is that a different block of memory is written with your new data and the old block is p...
To add to what Ziggy said - the Intel drive comes with a plastic spacer attached that makes the thickness 9.5mm. If your application requires a 7mm drive, just remove the four screws holding on the spacer and you now have a 7mm drive.
