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Comment by bayindirh

2 years ago

Samsung 870EVO (SSD), 980 Pro/990 Pro (NVMe) are all TLC drives. Kingston KC3000 is faster than 980 Pro, hence it's probably TLC, too.

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jsheard  2 years ago

A decent rule of thumb if that if a drive uses TLC, it will probably say so in the spec sheet.

If it's left ambiguous then it's either QLC, or a lottery where the "same" model may be TLC or QLC.

  • bayindirh  2 years ago

    Kingston NV2 is in that "what you get may differ" category, and Kingston explicitly says that what you get may change. I have two NV2s with differing die count, for example. Their controller might be different too. They're external, short-use drives, so I don't care.

    So, returning to previously mentioned ones, from their respective datasheets:

        - 870 EVO: Samsung V-NAND 3bit MLC
    - 980 Pro: Samsung V-NAND 3bit MLC
    - 990 Pro: Samsung V-NAND TLC
    - KC3000: NAND: 3D TLC
    - NV2: NAND: 3D // Explicit Lottery.

    • ngcc_hk  2 years ago

      A bit confused … the article is about Ssd drive with 500- M. Is what it said and discussed more details here applied to nvme drive with 1000+ M. Same?

ComputerGuru  2 years ago

I bought up a lot of 960 and 970 Pro models when the 980 came out and it was TLC, to have MLC drives for logs and caches. Little did I know that TLC was just the beginning of the decline and QLC was right around the corner for even enterprise!