Not as good as the deal earlier in May but still a good deal for a MLC 1TB SSD compared to the TLC SSDs that are usually in this price range.
Controller: Silicon Motion SM2246EN
Max Sequential Read: Up to 560 MBps
Max Sequential Write: Up to 460 MBps
4KB Random Read: Up to 74,000 IOPS
4KB Random Write: Up to 76,000 IOPS
Not me, but informative nonetheless:
Ok Gents,
This is first hand experience owning a large hosting company myself we have over 10,000 pieces in production with every brand you can think of.
TLC = STAY AWAY - Samsung 840,840 evo , UV400, INTEL 540 ,
Reason: We watching all SMART data on all managed servers and the Wear Level Count explodes (1000-4000) once the drives start to get up to 10TB+ in writes. We have seen Program Erase Cycle errors, anything over 0 we pull drives out. I can assure you many of these models are effected.
MLC = Amazing - Intel 520/530/535 Crucial M500/M550 Samsung 840/850 (3D NAND) Pro Kingston V200/V300
Reason: We have maybe 5,000 of these drives in production and PERFECT. Literally I can count on ONE hand how many failures in the last 6 months. You do NOT have to worry about reliability here. We have many many drives with upwards of 700TB-1PB and still run like a drive, Wearing Levels are around 200-700, this is nothing when you're dealing with 3,000 P/E wear cycles. Drive tend to slow down and IO performance is effected.
3D TLC = AMAZEBALLS - The main reason is price, you cannot beat it - Samsung 850 EVO , Crucial MX300
Reason: for EVERY TB of writes we get 1 wear level. Considering these drives support 3,000 PE cycles and are prices really well you have NOTHING to worry about when compared to the old bad TLC drives. We have drives now at 20-30TB at 16 wear levels.
Very good read and graphs - http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?doc_id=1327904
Recently have you noticed a shortage of 850 EVO 3D TLC NAND Drives? The reason is Kingstons & Intel have started to sell inferior TLC drives and there has been no reason choice but for the 850 EVO's.
Enterprise MLC Drives = Intel 3500/3510/3610/3700/etc Samsung 845DC EVO/PRO
No words needed really here. These drives can do multiple petabytes of writes and keep going.
Again we have around 7,000 desktop grade drives in production and literally no failures just slow downs after massive amounts of data reads/writes.
All these "industry" experts claim you should be doing this and that and use this here and not there but no one has had real first hand experience with the brand exposure we have. I have had even the VP of Sales @ Intel meet us and literally agreed about the exactly what I just described above and hinted the push for TLC drives was to STOP industry using desktop drives for workstations/servers. We cannot wait for the day mechanical drives ALL disappear It's not far off. 64 layer 3D TLC NAND @ 512GBit dies and then the 128 layer 1000GBit dies…10,12,14,16TB SSDs
Sorry if I got a little excited in the post We love our SSD's!
Irrelevant to most home users.
Also they're very vague with their figures so how are we supposed to take the excited babbling seriously?
it's very relevant, often we get somebody being very vocal with a bad experience, 1 drive but a very vocal user. The above is a bigger sample and show in general how reliable these devices are. Also goes into details about die sees which determines drive size and smaller drives are slower due to controller, bus and die size.
Why is the Samsung 840 listed in both TLC and MLC?
the 840 evo is TLC but the 840 pro is MLC
Actually - that's quite interesting.
I would have thought that MLC would still be better than 3D TLC.
@Shiny1 There should be a way to collect these golden comments and add to your personal collection to refer to. If OZbargain could do it they might be first bargain site to do it. For now I have clipped this comment to OneNote 😊
tough choice, need a new SSD and i can either get this or go for the more reliable Samsung 850 500GB for $205… what to do?
Well just think- do you really need 1TB of SSD storage, or could you live with 500GB of higher performance storage and buy a 1TB HDD (like a WD Blue) for the rest?
I think i'll go with a middle option of Crucial MX300 750GB for $250 posted from Amazon. Decent brand and 3d NAND to boot
I've got crucial 1tb mlc drives all work fine, they make their own memory.
Never seem to be any M.2. deals… Guess this will do.
Forgive my ignorance but can this be used in a laptop?
Most laptops, if not all. Some laptops are not easy to change drives though - you need to pull the keyboard off and half the laptop.
Other laptops have a dedicated panel underneath or on the side which are easy to replace.
I am waiting a good deal for 120 or 250gb Samsung Evo 550 for a while now 🙃
Any good review?