BroderLund@alien.topB to Hardware@hardware.watchEnglish · 1 year agoREVIEW: 8TB Samsung T5 EVO Portable SSD Review: QLC Sets Sane Expectations, Insane Pricingwww.anandtech.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkREVIEW: 8TB Samsung T5 EVO Portable SSD Review: QLC Sets Sane Expectations, Insane Pricingwww.anandtech.comBroderLund@alien.topB to Hardware@hardware.watchEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squareLastKilobyte@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoBuddy just had a 970 Plus 1TB nvme die out of nowhere, one of the switcharoo models that samsung quietly swapped out tlc for qlc. Its fairly widespread… https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/samsung-seemingly-caught-swapping-components-in-its-970-evo-plus-ssds/ https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/100-of-my-qlc-drives-are-now-dead.315081/ I rely on multi-ssd RAID arrays for work, as do many others in my line of work. None of us use TLC. Its cheaper and higher capacity, but NOT reliable.
minus-squareTehBigBoom@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThey didn’t swap tlc for qlc for that particular model tho? The swap was from their 92L to 128L flash, both tlc
Buddy just had a 970 Plus 1TB nvme die out of nowhere, one of the switcharoo models that samsung quietly swapped out tlc for qlc.
Its fairly widespread…
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/samsung-seemingly-caught-swapping-components-in-its-970-evo-plus-ssds/
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/100-of-my-qlc-drives-are-now-dead.315081/
I rely on multi-ssd RAID arrays for work, as do many others in my line of work. None of us use TLC. Its cheaper and higher capacity, but NOT reliable.
They didn’t swap tlc for qlc for that particular model tho? The swap was from their 92L to 128L flash, both tlc