Comment by drtgh
3 years ago
Not just SLC (1bit per cell). One thing that exasperates me is that one can't find even MLC drives anymore (2bits per cell), now everything is TLC or QLC (QLC sounds as a bad joke, how are they able to sell that thing?).
A few years ago Samsung Pro SSDs were MLC disks, but suddenly they changed them to TLC. They are shameless for calling them 3bit-MLC that is pure oxymoron. 3bits per cell is TLC-mode, and the degradation is higher than a MLC-mode. Basically, it is a price increase by deceiving the consumer (to achieve this, they have reduced the characteristics of their other lines also. shameless).
The misnomer drives me nuts, it should be called 8LC or 16LC for the ever-finer states they have to resolve, and that would make the dismal endurance and reliability make sense.