That's because people buying products are inexcusable morons that deserve every bit of the miserable, silly world they've fashioned for themselves through their own collective and individual stupidity.
This! Though in my case it's not really a performance concern. I'd like the longevity of SLC or at least MLC NAND. If we're going to be stuck with garbage solid state flash, at least send us a little bit of endurance. It's absurd that an individual memory cell is rated at 600 p/e cycles for TLC and QLC reduces that to about 300 or fewer p/e cycles before an individual cell is inoperable. That's just lovely when PCs are constantly writing swap, web cache, and other nonsense to storage.
My suspicion is that avtual endurance figures companies claim for their NVMe are even lower, much lower than those petabytes per week numbers. One of my 3- 4 years old high end WD Black drives switched to readonly mode while the other stopped to load OS. That's despite massive forced cooling heatsinks with fans i use on NVMes. All companies have to stop their absurd TLC/QLC madness reducing longevity by an order of magnitude compared to SLC
Samsung and some other ODM's still have a few MLC drives just for this reason. But it would be amazing to get an SLC drive even in 1TB capacity as a system drive, even if it sold for the price of a 4TB QLC drive. I wonder if there is a way to modify the NAND translation in firmware for a user to convert a drive between states.
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Samus - Saturday, June 29, 2024 - link
Sweet. My go-to SSD since the PC711 OEM drives and the P31 retail version. Fantastic, reliable, efficient drives.ZeDestructor - Sunday, June 30, 2024 - link
Why oh why are there no 4TB or 8TB SKUs? I adore my P31 Gold, but at 2TB it's just not enough capacity with how I use my laptopsDrkrieger01 - Sunday, June 30, 2024 - link
Likely due to their being little demand for this capacity from OEMs. Also, the OEMs can get away with charging a 'premium' for a 'branded' drive. 🙄PeachNCream - Thursday, July 4, 2024 - link
That's because people buying products are inexcusable morons that deserve every bit of the miserable, silly world they've fashioned for themselves through their own collective and individual stupidity.James5mith - Monday, July 1, 2024 - link
At this point with 8TB drives based on QLC, we could have a 2TB drive running in pure SLC mode to keep the performance permanently high.No need for a pseudo-SLC caching mode. Just SLC mode operation over the full 2TB capacity.
PeachNCream - Tuesday, July 2, 2024 - link
This! Though in my case it's not really a performance concern. I'd like the longevity of SLC or at least MLC NAND. If we're going to be stuck with garbage solid state flash, at least send us a little bit of endurance. It's absurd that an individual memory cell is rated at 600 p/e cycles for TLC and QLC reduces that to about 300 or fewer p/e cycles before an individual cell is inoperable. That's just lovely when PCs are constantly writing swap, web cache, and other nonsense to storage.SanX - Tuesday, July 2, 2024 - link
My suspicion is that avtual endurance figures companies claim for their NVMe are even lower, much lower than those petabytes per week numbers. One of my 3- 4 years old high end WD Black drives switched to readonly mode while the other stopped to load OS. That's despite massive forced cooling heatsinks with fans i use on NVMes. All companies have to stop their absurd TLC/QLC madness reducing longevity by an order of magnitude compared to SLCSamus - Tuesday, July 2, 2024 - link
Samsung and some other ODM's still have a few MLC drives just for this reason. But it would be amazing to get an SLC drive even in 1TB capacity as a system drive, even if it sold for the price of a 4TB QLC drive. I wonder if there is a way to modify the NAND translation in firmware for a user to convert a drive between states.