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-square14fedilinkarrow-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-square14fedilink
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.
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.