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@@ -216,12 +216,20 @@ Intel Turbo Memory
==================
Some X200 devices were sold with Intel Turbo Memory installed in the top-most
-mini PCI-e slot. This has been [shown to be
-ineffective](http://www.anandtech.com/show/2252) at disk caching or battery
-saving in most use cases. While there are [Linux
-drivers](https://github.com/yarrick/turbomem) available, it is blacklisted in
-at least GNU+Trisquel, and possibly other free operating systems. It should
-probably be removed.
+mini PCI-e slot.
+
+If you have one installed, you should probably remove it as it mostly likely
+brings no benefits, while having many issues:
+- It has been [shown to be
+ ineffective](http://www.anandtech.com/show/2252) at disk caching or battery
+ saving in most use cases. Having it installed might lead to more
+ battery consumption.
+- Using it will most likely lead to data loss because with its
+ [driver](https://github.com/yarrick/turbomem),
+ "data cannot be written/read back reliably". The driver development
+ has also stopped.
+- It might also be a security risk as it may have access to the system
+ RAM through the PCIe bus.
Memory
======