Looking for more silence and more importantly: Less vibrations and humming noises, I’m thinking about replacing my 5 HDDs (10 to 16TB) with SSDs.

Considering Samsung QVO 8TB for their capacity at an acceptable $ / TB price.

But…

I’m a bit wary of QLC.

What’s your experience with long-term QLC usage ?

I’m not looking for performance (have 2 NVMEs for that), but reliable, long duration hoarding of medias. Though, there will be quite a bit of writing / overwriting.

  • dr100@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There is no long term, I think the first one was introduced in 2018, and even then it was an Intel model I haven’t seen being offered, never mind someone having it. They only picked up recently in availability and popularity so the experiences would be mostly early failures (or at least warranty ones), plus the waters are muddied by having QLC both in expensive top capacity SSDs and in the bottom of the barrel most corner cutting saving pennies ones.