Comment by jeffbee
3 years ago
And yet there are still people who will post about the good old days and the evils of MLC, as if current SSDs were not demonstrably better in every way.
3 years ago
And yet there are still people who will post about the good old days and the evils of MLC, as if current SSDs were not demonstrably better in every way.
They aren't. Write endurance is significantly lower than SLC, it's just compensated for by lots of write leveling.
More precisely, endurance and retention become exponentially lower with each additional bit stored per cell, while capacity only increases multiplicatively.
They are better. SLC is improving as much as MLC. The ratio of speed, durability, and capacity is the same between SLC/MLC/TLC, but modern MLC is faster and more durable than 5-year-old SLC.
Exactly. And I do not care what the low-level bit performance is if the device-level performance is better.
>modern MLC is faster and more durable than 5-year-old SLC
great April fools joke
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Citation needed
I still remember the bubble memory system that would someday replace HDD back in the 80s