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Pretty cheap TLC sata drive, should be fine for video games and stuff.
LEVEN SSD 2TB TLC Sata SSD $163.37 Delivered @ Amazon US via AU
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Kazusa on 14/01/2023 - 21:39 amazon.com.au (274 clicks)
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but you're playing the lottery with that one, it's either tlc or qlc. but then again at this category/use case of ssds it doesnt even matter lol
you're playing the lottery with this one buying a largely unknown brand.
@dfg555: I know you were being sarcastic, but it is kinda true.
You don't become a known brand without having a history of reliability or at the very least, surviving as a company for a decent length of time to provide support for customers.
Nothing is guaranteed, but there is at least some correlation between brand and trustworthiness.@dfg555: No.
Reputation of the brand is what is being talked about here.
A good reputation can only be built with good products and services.
I'm sure you already judge people and brands based on reputation weather you want to admit it or not.
Based on Amazon user feedback, my current view is the typical: you get what you paid for.
CrystalDiskMark is not going to tell you the true picture of this SSD since it merely tests the SLC cache.
This is the chart from a user who bought this drive on the sustained write performance:
LEVEN 2TB Full Drive Write Chart - No time break
After the SLC cache is depleted, the write performance drops to 40MB/s. That does appear to be due to an aggressive SLC cache recovery.
As a "workaround", the same user attempts to introduce a 4 hour delay every 200GB write and here is the result:
LEVEN 2TB Full Drive Write Chart - 4 hour break at every 200GB
Two issues there: (1) the SLC cache is dynamic so a static every 200GB wait doesn't workaround this issue properly. (2) the SSD appears to only enter SLC recovery after its fully depleted. That is the only way I can think of to explain why waiting 4 hours, on one occasion, the SLC cache didn't fully recover.
This feels like QLC. If the 2TB version is like this, then it does feel like BX500 might actually be better. If you own this SSD and run the necessary utility (as this SSD appears to use SiliconMotion controller) and it does show TLC, then you can state it is TLC. Otherwise, with discounted price, it is better to state it "might be" TLC with a decent chance of being QLC.
this one is sold by amazon so it means they handle warranty claims which should be much safer
Doesnt matter who sells it, if its purchased through amazon, amazon handle it.(you do usually need to remind the support staff you're in Australia though).
ACL allows you to take a product back to place of purchase, and legally online, thats the website providing the sales.
Ive dealt with this from both consumer and retailer side.
The one you posted, S101, based on the user reviews, seem even worse.
It seems to have the same type of SLC cache setup, but one user reported after SLC cache depleted, the write speed is less than 20MB/s (but that's Windows speed). He did elect to do a copy, delete, followed by a copy right away. The second copy (which is the little video he posted) obviously didn't have much SLC cache left. Basically, it is close to one of the worst case scenarios, but it still shows how bad the NAND performs without SLC cache.
Would this drive be a suitable upgrade for a PS4 pro?
Mainly looking to double the disk space.i bought two silicon power. died aftwr 11tbw and 2weeks
never buying cheap arse brands again
I wouldn't bother with cheap unknown brands. I tried one before, it ran fine, benched well and was all very good and stuff. Reliability was fine too. Then I took the drive out and kept it in a drawer for 6 months, together with another G.Skill Falcon II 64GB drive which had been kept unpowered in the drawer for 5 years. The cheap unknown brand lost all data that was on the drive. The G.Skill still retained its data.
Older MLC drives retain data better. That's just the nand technology, doesn't matter which brand.
Sadly, that's not true (evaluating data retention based solely on NAND type). I had one MLC SSD which suffered complete data lost and soon died. That one did happen to be an el cheapo brand. Furthermore, it is not limited to cheap brands too. My father's old laptop with Samsung 830 stopped booting (he doesn't use that laptop often), all data gone.
However, some of the dirt cheap, no-name brand SSDs had previously been caught using rejected NANDs.
A reputable Crucial BX500 is only $10 more.