BroderLund@alien.topB to HardwareEnglish · 2 years agoREVIEW: 8TB Samsung T5 EVO Portable SSD Review: QLC Sets Sane Expectations, Insane Pricingwww.anandtech.comexternal-linkmessage-square22linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squaregoldcakes@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoWho makes the NAND for it? YMTC QLC are known to fail, but never had an issue with Samsung QLC.
minus-squareLastKilobyte@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years 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-up1·2 years agoThey didn’t swap tlc for qlc for that particular model tho? The swap was from their 92L to 128L flash, both tlc
Who makes the NAND for it? YMTC QLC are known to fail, but never had an issue with Samsung QLC.
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