Greetings all and in particular TomsHardware,
I have come to the conclusion that in the mist of the NAND shortage in the storage world, the continuously changing tech used in our beloved SSD's and the increasing price to buy them with such low endurance I believe we would benefit greatly from a comparison review (unless i have missed it) for currently available drives on the market for a cost\endurance\life (£100, 100TBW, 2 Years).
e.g: MLC vs TLC single vs 3D vs 3D Xpoint vs mechanical raid on the cost to setup\life of expected equipment, how long the setup will last in expected usage.
With TLC now being the pushed tech and low endurance, would spending the few £ or $ more for essentially a drive which would last much longer be better? (I already know the answer).
For example you have a laptop with 16GB RAM and a 240GB SSD with a rating of say 200TB Writes. You hibernate the laptop 2\3 times a day (i know i know...) and do a lot of HD torrent downloads... It’s not going to last that long.
I'm an I.T repair engineer and I'm seeing PC's and laptops with SSD's that are having to be replaced that are TLC because they have reached their limit. Customers can only get TLC based products from us (people want cheap) that are not going to last as long as there predecessors.
I personally am in the position that my home server needs its boot drive replacing as the mechanical disk is failing and will refuse to put another in unless its SSD as i needs to IOPS. My main desktop is a 480GB SSD so that will be going in the server to replace but instead of going for another SSD for the desktop, I will be going the good old fashioned mechanical RAID for mainly cost of a SSD ATM and the longevity.
Regards
Delly
I have come to the conclusion that in the mist of the NAND shortage in the storage world, the continuously changing tech used in our beloved SSD's and the increasing price to buy them with such low endurance I believe we would benefit greatly from a comparison review (unless i have missed it) for currently available drives on the market for a cost\endurance\life (£100, 100TBW, 2 Years).
e.g: MLC vs TLC single vs 3D vs 3D Xpoint vs mechanical raid on the cost to setup\life of expected equipment, how long the setup will last in expected usage.
With TLC now being the pushed tech and low endurance, would spending the few £ or $ more for essentially a drive which would last much longer be better? (I already know the answer).
For example you have a laptop with 16GB RAM and a 240GB SSD with a rating of say 200TB Writes. You hibernate the laptop 2\3 times a day (i know i know...) and do a lot of HD torrent downloads... It’s not going to last that long.
I'm an I.T repair engineer and I'm seeing PC's and laptops with SSD's that are having to be replaced that are TLC because they have reached their limit. Customers can only get TLC based products from us (people want cheap) that are not going to last as long as there predecessors.
I personally am in the position that my home server needs its boot drive replacing as the mechanical disk is failing and will refuse to put another in unless its SSD as i needs to IOPS. My main desktop is a 480GB SSD so that will be going in the server to replace but instead of going for another SSD for the desktop, I will be going the good old fashioned mechanical RAID for mainly cost of a SSD ATM and the longevity.
Regards
Delly
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